We work across regions with vastly different geographies, climates, and cultures. The projects look different in each country—in some communities rehabilitating an existing hand pump is the best solution, while others require more sophisticated solutions like a solar-powered submersible pump.

If you choose to allocate your gift where we deem it is most needed, it will be assigned to a single project or combined with others to complete a much larger water system. If you select the country or region and project type, we’ll make sure your gift is designated as you direct. Either way, you’ll receive a personalized report from the project and the people you serve.

Your project is part of a comprehensive program that includes many stages: from preparing locations and communities, construction, and water testing, to empowering and training the local church. Projects that are more complex can take longer to complete. Rainy seasons can also delay project progress. Even with careful planning, unexpected delays can arise from political instability, limited raw materials, or water issues at the site. We also believe in community ownership, so we spend time training residents on how to operate and maintain the water point. Water testing is completed and photos and stories are collected. This all takes time to ensure long-term sustainability.

We can allocate your gift to the program country of your choice. Our partners complete different types of water projects in each country, so we’ll assign your gift to the project with the highest need, i.e. hand pump, household water filter, mechanized borehole, or larger system.

We already work through in-country implementing partners who align with our purpose: to bring clean and living water to the unreached. Cultural and religious contexts determine the ministry approach and role of the local church in each country.

In many unreached areas, there are no local churches so our partners find pastors or Christian leaders willing to travel to a project location and serve alongside the process. These believers are trained in WASH and work with our partners to provide clean water and share the gospel.

Our purpose is to bring clean and living water to the unreached. A people group is considered unreached if there are no, or very few, local believers who can share the gospel without outside help.*

Each country’s context determines the role the local church can play. In some locations, pastors and local believers are empowered to be the face of the water program. This opens doors for sharing the gospel and planting home groups. In other areas, sharing the gospel is restricted. The provision of clean water builds a foundation of trust between the community and local believers. We’ve seen this grow into relationships and opportunities to show the love of God.

*Learn more on unreached peoples here.

When we began in 2008, we worked through a small range of water projects. To date, we have served more than 1 million people and we’ve expanded to a much wider range of water technologies in various countries. Some of these solutions, like a large-scale piped water system, are more expensive but serve a larger number of people with higher-quality water.

Prices have increased to include training on safe sanitation and hygiene practices. This is critically important to improve health in communities. Our programs also include resourcing and equipping local pastors and believers to participate in the project. Prices also reflect an inflation in water project materials. If you’d like to learn more, email us here.

Project costs vary greatly depending on the technology used and country location. Each year, we review the budget to make sure all the essential components are accounted for, including site surveys, raw materials, water quality testing, safe hygiene/sanitation promotion, ministry training and resources, construction, staff costs, transportation, and more.

We estimate the costs for different water solutions and bracket them into $5,000 increments. Larger water projects that pipe water to thousands of people in a large community can cost more than $500K. In these cases, we combine several gifts of varying amounts to complete the project.

We choose to work in unreached, remote locations where there is a critical need for water and where no one else is working. This comes with cost, but it also opens doors for the gospel in some of the hardest-to-reach areas of the world.