mWater helps governments, utilities and service providers, and organizations use data to increase access to safe water and sanitation around the world.

Our proven data-driven management approach focuses on building local capacity to turn data into action. This is enabled by our free and open-access data management platform, which democratizes the tools of data analytics to collect, analyze, and collaborate using modern digital and mobile technology.

We believe that the first step to improving water and sanitation services and attracting more investment to the sector is to create reliable data systems. Using reliable data to plan, execute, and evaluate results leads to positive cycles of increasing performance, public confidence, and financial investment. We help our partners and over 250,000 free users of our software platform to become data-driven, regardless of where they are located or their level of capacity.

We are working on a global sanitation asset standard.

We work with hundreds of partners across the world.

Our software can be described as a combination of Google Forms for survey data collection, Excel for data cleaning, ArcGIS for spatial analysis, PowerBI for dashboard creation, and QuickBooks for utility fee collection. This free, easy-to-use platform helps low-resource governments manage infrastructure and personnel tasks like maintenance or emergency response. It supports data collection through a mobile app available in dozens of languages. Although designed for government use, many academic researchers use it for affordable data collection and analysis. Students might find any of our features useful, and there's a wealth of open-access data on water resources from users in two hundred countries.

Press

NASA

NASA: Benefits for Humanity: Know Your Water

The space station roots of mWater’s water quality test kit.

Columbia University

Glass Half Full

The inland port of Mwanza, Tanzania sits on the banks of Lake Victoria, the largest lake in Africa. There is water everywhere, but for many residents of the impoverished “informal settlements” on the city’s outskirts, not a drop to be safely drunk.

Next Billion

Creating an Exit Strategy for Aid

Annie Feighery: At its core, mWater is our best effort to eliminate waterborne (diarrheal) disease.

Projects

mWater works with governments, international organizations, development programs, NGOs and academic partners on projects in many different countries. Visit our Projects page to learn more about how our partners are using data for impact.

USAID, Utilities

USAID Haiti Water and Sanitation Project

Digital platform for data-driven management used by all urban utilities in Haiti.

UNICEF / LIXIL Partnership Monitoring System

UNICEF/LIXIL Partnership monitoring system

Innovative youth citizen reporter approach for real time data on market-based sanitation programs.

CRS, Utilities, Finance

CRS Azure digital water service provider platform

Reliable data systems for small water service providers to attract finance and investment.

mWater provides a free, scalable technology platform that enables data-driven management by governments, utilities, water authorities, NGOs, and private sector partners. We designed our data platform from the ground up to use modern mobile and cloud technologies to help democratize data.

• Free and open: All features of the mWater platform are free for unlimited use. Anyone can sign up for an account and start collecting data in minutes.

• Your data belongs to you: Our users own their data and decide what to share and what to keep private. We will never sell access to data or share it with anyone. This promotes platform adoption, long-term usage, and client independence.

• Designed for collaboration: mWater makes it easy to share data and collaborate with governments to monitor public infrastructure. We also provide a library of standard forms and indicators to help make data comparable.

• Secure and reliable: All mWater data is stored in our secure cloud-based servers, which allows us to maintain the highest security and reliability. Users can download any or all of their data at any time, and everything is automatically backed up.

The free platform model, along with the technical assistance and training that mWater provides to partners and local firms, helps to modernize governance systems for the WASH sector and promotes standardized approaches to management.

Our technologies

SURVEYOR MOBILE APP

Collect data, map infrastructure, and manage water services online or offline.  Available on Android, iOS, and the web.

DATA PORTAL

Manage your data and teams. Create powerful forms, maps, and dashboards to share with partners and the public.

SOLSTICE

Expanding data management capacity to all sectors of international development.

Visit our Platform page to learn more about our software.

Our partners

We work with hundreds of partners across the world.