Education and Engineering Services
for those who serve the poor
More than 1.1 billion people around the world do not have access to clean drinking water, and waterborne illness is the cause of death of over 4,900 people per day, most of them children under the age of five. The Calgary-based Centre for Affordable Water and Sanitation Technology (CAWST) provides technical training and consulting services, and acts as a catalyst bringing together the right partners and funders to make water and sanitation projects a reality for the poorest of the poor in the developing world. Since 2001 CAWST has provided services in water and sanitation to more than 370 organizations in 49 countries. More than one million people have received safer water and been impacted by CAWST's network of partners.