Knowledge in Action (Global Heroes Water Site). This site contains links to several international and Canadian-based water and infrastructure development sites.
The Green Lane (Environment Canada). This website has general information about water supply and water quality via its Clean Water link.
Canadian Water Resources Association (CWRA). Canada's water management professional organization. The site coveres water resource management issues with special attention to irrigation and education strategies. The water news section contains much of interest to developing countries, including recent articles on management issues in Egypt, Oman, Colombia, Ecuador, Indonesia, Sri Lanka, and Malaysia.
Freshwater Web Site (Environment Canada). This site can also be reached from the Green Lane. It covers many topic areas, ranging from water policy to management issues such as floods, water quality, and economics. Information is available from provincial, national, and international sources.
Well Drilling Training Program (Sir Stanford Fleming College). Site describes a two-year degree program for training well drilling professionals.
Action Against Hunger (USA). ACF responds to emergencies and assists rehabilitation efforts after crises. They work in four areas, including water and sanitation projects such as building or restoring water distribution systems, constructing wells, and developing sanitation programs.
Aqua Para La Vida (USA). Helps small, rural communities of Nicaragua develop and maintain access to safe drinking water, primarily through gravity-feed water systems. Operates a work-study school (Escuela Tecnica Agua Potable) which has a three-year Water Project Director curriculum.
American Water Relief (USA). Devoted to bringing clean, safe water system to poorer communities in Central and South America. Designs and constructs water systems consisting of both water supply and fecal waste disposal elements, with a focus on community participation and sustainability.
Care Water Projects (USA). Works to reduce the health risks of water-related diseases in developing countries and save time spent gathering water. Provides assistance and training to rural communities and urban neighbourhoods to help them construct and manage low-cost water and santation systems. This web site includes evaluations of recent water and sanitation projects in developing countries.
Chlorine Industry Water Relief Network (USA). Donates chlorine-based water disinfection products through the Red Cross during emergencies such as natural disasters.
Christian Relief Services (USA). Administers water supply projects in the US and Africa, including well drilling and gravity flow distribution system construction.
Community Aid Abroad (Australia). Supports community-based self help projects in 30 countries around the world in seven different areas, including agriculture, health, environmental protection, and human rights.
Doctors Without Borders (USA) OR MSF: Médecins Sans Frontières Int'l (Holland). Provides emergency health care and water supplies/santitation assistance around the world. El Porvenir (Nicaragua). Works in the country of Nicaragua to support self-help community projects in sustainable infrastructure, including well and latrine construction and reforestation.
Ghana West Africa Fund (Church of Christ USA). Dedicated to developing safe drinking water supplies in Ghana, where infestations of Guinea worm and other parasites are endemic and severly degrade the health of rural populations. The Fund supports drilling and construction of wells with handpumps.
Global Water Inc. (USA). Describes US military-spec equipment used on water supply and purification projects around the world, including satellite and GIS equipment for locating wells and water purifiers such as portable RO units and others that treat turbidity and microbial contamination. Emphasizes solar and other sustainable power alternatives.
Lifewater International (USA) Lifewater Canada's sister site, which contains project updates, USAID technical notes on water supply development issues, and information on training relevant to rural water supply development.
Living Water International (USA). Provides training and equipment to assist developing countries in producing clean, healthy drinking water. Current projects in Kenya, Ghana, and several Central American countries are described.
MCC: Mennonite Central Committee Searchable (Canada). This is a link to the MCC site's search engine. The site includes descriptions of drinking water-related projects, including dam building efforts.
Servants in Faith & Technology (Southern Institute for Appropriate Technology). Site describes appropriate technologies for developing communities, including low-tech pump, construction, and agricultural technologies. Plus great international recipes!
VSO: Voluntary Service Overseas (Canada). Site for persons who wish to volunteer on water, education, and other development projects in the Third World.
WaterAid (UK). Site contains case studies of water development projects, anticipated sanitation crises in urban areas, and community participation. Site has a cool kid's educational game on water supply.
WaterCan (Canada). Organization funds and manages small-scale clean water and sanitation projects with an emphasis on sustainability and community participation.
Water for Children Africa (USA). Site describes safe drinking water and cottage industry develeopment, as well as volunteer opportunities. One theme is development of cultural bridges between American and African communities.
Water for Survival (New Zealand). Provides well construction references.
Water For People (Canada and USA). An organization founded by AWWA in 1991 to fund water treatment, supply, and hygiene projects. Works in 35 countries around the world.
Water Partners International (USA). Works in Central America to develop surface water supplies and gravity distribution systems. Emphasizes financing and O&M fund development, source protection, and health education.
Wells of Hope (Canada). Led by Ted Van der Zalm, this small non-profit group is working to drill 30 wells/year to provide rural Guatemalan communities with sustainable fresh water supplies. The cost of one well is approximately $10,000.
Well Spring Africa (USA). Promotes water well drilling with a 3000-year old technology, the hand-powered percussion drill. Book and video are available for US$12.
World Vision (Canada or USA). Christian organization working in 90 countries in natural disaster relief response, child sponsorship, and other types of development and emergency projects.
Water Focused Non-Governmental Organizations