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“We chose where it went. Two of our own men were trained to fix it. That is why it still works.”
A village water committee
Punjab
Community water point, maintained locally
Clean Water
Safe Water. Healthy Families. Stronger Communities.
We work with communities to improve access to safe, sustainable and responsibly managed water. A successful water project is not infrastructure. It is a service that keeps working.
Clean water is never conditional upon conversion, church attendance, prayer, Bible acceptance or religious participation.
Most failed water projects were not badly built. They were badly maintained. So every scheme is planned with the community that will live with it, handed over with trained local caretakers, and monitored afterward.
Each project has to answer for technical feasibility, water quality, groundwater sustainability, maintenance, local management, spare parts, financial sustainability, environmental impact, community participation and equitable access. If it cannot answer those, it should not be built.
“Let anyone who is thirsty come to me and drink.”
How it works
Every scheme follows the same sequence
- 01
Listen
The community says what it needs and where.
- 02
Assess
Water quality, groundwater, feasibility.
- 03
Plan
Including who maintains it and how it is paid for.
- 04
Build
- 05
Test
Quality tested, results shared locally.
- 06
Train
Local caretakers, with the parts list.
- 07
Monitor
Because a pump that fails in year two helped nobody.
Accountability
What we measure
We publish outcomes rather than activity counts, and we do not publish a number we cannot evidence.
- People gaining access to safer water
- Water quality results
- System functionality over time
- Local maintenance capacity
- School access
- Community participation
Testimonies
Told in their own words,
with their permission.
Every story here is recorded on a visit, read back in the person’s own language, and published only once they sign off.
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2025