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Welcome to the Largest, 100% Transparent, and Interactive Database of Water Projects
The only scalable, map-driven, and completely open platform in the water sector,
PWX is a transparent, efficient, and effective clearinghouse that is making a sustainable dent in the global water and sanitation crises.
A unique participatory decision-making network of peers,
PWX combines people, process, and technology to manage water and sanitation projects around the world -
from application, selection, funding, implementation, to impact assessment.
PWX helps competitors become collaborators, making them
work together, learn, and share, thus creating the greatest impact possible.
Our living repository is easy to navigate through both maps and text, and invites everyone to learn, participate, and contribute.
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
President, Pacific Institute
Author of the biennial series: The World's Water
Unlike a vaccine, successful solutions to unsafe water problems are not a 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 now.
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 small-scale projects for the long-term: from funding to impact.
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 small-scale projects for the long-term: from funding to impact.
BPR's initiative to use a peer review process to assess and approve water and sanitation projects is bold in its conception and inclusive in its method. Bringing in organizations and individuals in different parts of the world to the process of project selection and approval is both transparent and cost effective. Other organizations supporting water and sanitation projects may well have something to learn from this approach.
Ravi Narayanan
Vice Chairman, Asia Pacific Water Forum
Former CEO, WaterAid
Vice Chairman, Asia Pacific Water Forum
Former CEO, WaterAid
How Does PWX Work?
Work & Network - Mapped!
See all our applications, projects, and partners on the water sector's first, most innovative, and interactive map.
- A logo collage of the network
- Interactive list of our 60 members
- Colorful collage of network in '08
- Map of 21 countries working in
PWX Summary
- Communities Assisted: 862
- People Benefited: ~544,192
- Programs/Projects in Progress: 68
- Total Programs/Projects: 220
- Total $ Managed: $25,266,827
- Applications Peer Reviewed: 140
- Total $ Peer Reviewed: $2,014,317
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Agua Para La Salud
| Member Since: | July 2008 |
| Office in: | Guatemala |
| Projects in: | Guatemala |
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