SAFE WATER NETWORK

Safe Water Network was co-founded in 2006 by the late actor and philanthropist Paul Newman and other prominent civic and business leaders to realize a word with healthy, thriving communities, managing their own sustainable supply of safe water. Our mission is to develop and demonstrate affordable, economically viable solutions, to share sector knowledge and build partnerships to reach millions in need.

Since 2008, we have worked with communities in Ghana and India to develop locally owned and managed Safe Water Stations. Our teams in Accra and New Delhi bring policy, management, operating and technical expertise to the advancement of safe water solutions.

Our Safe Water Stations also act as real-world innovations labs. Through testing and refinement, we simplify operations, lower costs, and standardize the model for replication and ultimately scale. We partner with leading organizations from the public, private and academic sectors to continuously refine and standardize our model for replication at scale.

We catalyze sector leaders to advance the agenda for community water solutions and provide a platform to increase our impact through knowledge-sharing with like-minded organizations. Our research helps to solve the challenges to local sustainability. Our engagements bring together sector leaders to share insights, foster best practices and collaborate for greater impact.

Our team of experts is dedicated to overcoming the obstacles of providing safe water to those in need. With backgrounds in engineering, operations, finance, health and government policy, we are focused on achieving lasting impact on human development and expanding our efforts to bring sustainable safe water to the communities where we work.

Our network and partners are valuable resources that strengthen our capabilities to continue to grow. Our funding partners come from a range of sectors, including governments, national and global corporations and foundations. Our solutions partners provide specialized skills to solve well-defined challenges. Their support has helped us with initiatives from demand generation to remote monitoring. We also partner with organizations in India and Ghana for their specialized local knowledge. They help us in mobilizing communities, and implement health and hygiene training.

To date we work with over 330 communities throughout Ghana and India providing safe water access to over 1.2 million people.

We are dedicated to sharing our experiences— both successes and failures—across the sector and have already made significant progress through our regular events and communications. Our annual Beyond the Pipe forums in Ghana and India are attended by sector leaders. Participants advance an agenda through working groups and field collaborations. In addition, we host events at other major global gatherings such as Stockholm World Water Week. We also influence sector professionals and decision makers by disseminating our findings. Our country-focused Sector Reviews provide a comprehensive survey of the opportunities for market-based approaches to safe water provision, including an analysis of existing systems in operation. Each of our Field Insights describes a challenge we faced, the approach we took to address it, and the observed results.