CLEAN DRINKING WATER TEAM

Our organization analyzes water conditions in a community, assembles a water coordination board of representative from the community and helps coordinate solutions to address the drinking water needs for the community. We identify the resources needed and then partner with the community to implement a suitable, sustainable solution. Our projects often include constructing wells, pumps, water storage tanks, water delivery pipes, public water faucets, and water filter systems. We help raise funds to purchase materials and locate local workers to construct and maintain the system once it is completed. Our goals focus on removing obstacles and making incremental progress. We offer support for 3 years after the project is completed to ensure the community can maintain and expand the systems as needed.

Our strategy is to coordinate a board of representatives consisting of men, women and village leaders. We involve the entire community in finding solutions. Our projects often require use of land held by individuals to install wells or lay pipes that will serve the entire community. We provide education and technical expertise to engineer sustainable solutions suitable to meet the capabilities of the community using local resources. We raise funds to help acquire the resources needed in combination of labor and financial support form the community to ensure local ownership of the solution. A critical element is to ensure we protect the dignity of the community and observe local culture to help increase pride in the community and instill a realization of self sufficiency.

Our organization consists of a team of volunteers that bring decades of experience in engineering, water science, water resource management, environmental science, resource management and an array of technology skills. We enlist volunteers on each project that bring local knowledge, language and cultural knowledge. We enlist support from manufacturers and distributors of water equipment supplies. Our board members personally donate each year to cover all administrative costs for the organization. 100% of all donations go directly to our projects. We publish all data to ensure transparency and to share with other organizations. Each project includes 100's of photos, videos, blogs and testimonials. We publish monthly finance reports detailing every donation and expense. In the past 3 years we have completed drinking water projects in Honduras, Cuba, Nepal.

Since our founding we have completed (1) water filter project in Honduras at an all girls orphanage, (7) water filter projects in Cuba which were coordinated with the Episcopal Bishop of Cuba, (6) community water projects in the Kabilash Department region of Nepal, three hours outside Kathmandu. We have provided clean drinking water to over 4,000 people. We also provided donated laptops to (2) schools in Nepal establishing the first computer lab in the region. We also arranged for an emergency food delivery to a foodbank in Nepal during the COVID-19 outbreak, securing food for 100 people. We have established trusting relationships with local representatives in each community we assisted who continue to communicate with us ensuring the continued operation of the water solutions. Our best examples are when a community we help expands the system we helped start and when they extend their help to a neighboring community, paying it forward. We have seen this happen in several villages in Nepal and our work has been highlighted in Nepali newspapers.

In 2020 we hope to establish a new project with a Bahamian community in need of water filtration to help reduce the dependence on bottled water. We continue to reach-out to communities in the USA in hopes we can find a domestic water project. We are monitoring conditions in Nepal where we had plans to begin working in a new community and lead a group trip in November.