Welcome to the Largest, 100% Transparent, and Living Database of Water Projects
In addition to being the only scalable, map-driven, and completely open platform in the water sector,
PWX is also the only participatory decision-making system where applicants get to weigh in funding decisions.
PWX combines people, process, and technology to manage thousands of WASH 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.
PWX is a transparent, efficient, and effective clearinghouse that is making a sustainable dent in the global water and sanitation crises.
Our interactive 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
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.
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
