Mission

Global Water Stewardship resolves sanitation issues in the developing world by educating people and engineering sustainable centralized solutions that keep waterways clean and communities healthy

Category

Poverty Alleviation

Additional Information

An estimated 32% of the world’s population (2.4 billion people) lacked improved sanitation facilities in 2015. Inadequate access to safe water and sanitation services, coupled with poor hygiene practices, kills and sickens thousands of children every day, and leads to impoverishment and diminished opportunities for thousands more. Many countries lack the technical knowledge to develop and implement centralized sanitation solutions. We are working to implement solutions to this problem. Global Water Stewardship (GWS) has 1,300 members in our host organization that are experts in the planning, engineering, operations and maintenance of sustainable centralized wastewater/ sanitation collection and treatment systems. We utilize university student design competitions for the concept designs and then work with local engineers in the host country to finalize the design and implement the solution. Through this process we educate individuals on how to design, implement, operate, and maintain centralized wastewater collection and treatment systems. We also develop user fee structures for the ongoing operations and maintenance costs and work with community outreach individuals to get community buy in.