Welcome To The Approach That Will Enable Us To Solve Humanity's Crises
The world's crises cannot be solved by traditional approaches;
we need to first change our mindset to overcome deep-rooted roadblocks in our system.
PWX is an innovation that addresses the mindset and multiple roadblocks that prevent us from solving humanity's biggest crises.
Unlike a vaccine, successful solutions to unsafe water problems are not one-shot, immediate result acts.
They involve community organization, appropriate technology, hygiene, sanitation,
transfer of ownership, change in behaviour, and long-term maintenance.
Integrating these dimensions - one project at a time - is hard.
This difficulty has made our ability to scale the work within our current bureaucratic philanthropic process impossible - until PWX.
This site has created a real breakthrough approach, providing the coordination, information and evaluation
so critical for the success of water improvement projects.
This community also provides easy access to best practices, helping water groups grow stronger and
more effective through collaboration and peer review.
Earl Blumenauer
U.S. Congressman, 3rd District, Oregon
Co-Sponsor of the Paul Simon 2005 Water For The Poor Act
and 2009 Water For The World Act
PWX addresses the challenge of scale!
An empowering human network that enforces collaboration,
PWX divides up the work and increases the number of expert resources at very low cost to
manage thousands of small-scale projects for the long-term: from funding to impact.
PWX helps competitors become collaborators; as they work together, learn, and share, we create the impact we desire.
In addition to being the only scalable, map-driven, and completely open platform in the WASH sector,
PWX is also the only participatory decision-making system where applicants get to weigh in funding decisions.
A transparent, efficient, and effective clearinghouse,
PWX combines people, process, and technology to help make a sustainable dent in the global water crises.
What I've seen so far looks tremendous. I've seen nothing else like it, and think it
offers serious potential for improving transparency, information available to users,
and the ability to understand what really works in the real world.
Dr. Peter Gleick
President, Pacific Institute
Author of the biennial series: The World's Water
