Safe Water for Communities
Safe water saves lives and transforms communities. It builds health and hope, creating educational and economic opportunities that can help break the cycle of poverty.
Water Builds Opportunity®
All men, women, and children deserve water that is just as clean as the water we drink.
We Get Safe Water Flowing and Keep it Flowing
Water Mission employs standards of excellence that are expected in developed countries. We visit a community and assess its needs, water source and quality, and more. Our engineers then design a solution customized to the unique context, raising the industry standard for providing safe water in remote, last-mile communities.
Electricity is unreliable in many of the communities where we work. Solar energy is an affordable, sustainable solution for water systems in places without consistent power.
The Erosion Chlorinator is a patented water treatment device used to disinfect water from clear water sources. It requires no electricity, needs minimal maintenance, has low operating expenses, is easily transported, and is simple to operate. It can treat enough water for up to 10,000 people per day.
The LWTS is a compact water treatment plant that filters and disinfects water to make it safe. It is engineered for quick deployment and sustainable, long-term operation. It is rugged, simple to operate, and easy to transport. One LWTS can treat more than 10,000 gallons of water daily.
The Community-Managed Plus program empowers communities to take an active role in the design, construction, and ongoing management of safe water systems. Water Mission facilitates community engagement and mobilization, invests in educating and equipping local leaders, and sets up a Safe Water Committee (SWC) to operate and manage the solution. Under our Community-Managed model, Water Mission actively monitors SWC governance, project finances, and water system operations and performance, including water quality. Our structured period of follow-up and support lasts one to three years after commissioning a project. After this, Water Mission transfers the project to the community and provides support on an as-needed basis.
As safe water solutions increase in complexity, long-term project management can require more advanced technical assistance and oversight from us. Professionalizing the service delivery aspect of our work allows us to provide operation and maintenance support for our projects with greater efficiency and scale while reducing the burden on communities. We can deliver a more reliable water supply that meets customers’ long-term needs. Both the Rural Water Cooperative (RWC) and the utility model are types of professionalized services that help us achieve those goals.
Monitoring water systems is critical to reliability. Water Mission’s remote monitoring technology transmits data via satellite to cloud-based, asset-mapping software, allowing us to monitor daily water production, water quality, and water levels in the source from which we’re pumping.
Water Mission designs, builds, and implements safe water solutions using innovative technology and tailored water treatment methods.
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