Safe Water Network's 2025 Ghana market update documents another year of measurable progress — 92,788 people reached, 53 new systems installed, and cumulative reach now exceeding 1.1 million people across 747 communities. New research also sheds light on the financing structures needed to bring safe water to Ghana's hardest-to-reach communities.
April 2026
Vasundhara demonstrates how integrated, community-led ecosystem restoration can deliver measurable environmental, climate, and livelihood outcomes at scale. Working across urban and peri-urban India, the program offers a replicable model for restoring land and water systems while strengthening local institutions.
January 2026
Developed with support from the India Water Partnership, this report assesses the capability of 28 women from self-help groups and female social entrepreneurs to operate and maintain small water enterprises.
Small water enterprises (SWEs) alleviates burdens by providing safe and accessible drinking water to communities, which allow women more time to pursue education and employment opportunities.
This paper presents a case study of 265 iJal Safe Water Stations in India that use IoT-based parametric monitoring systems to raise automatic alarms and send regular alerts, which help facilitate both local operations and remote diagnostics conducted by a service entity to identify service and spare-parts requirements on a timely basis.
This report describes how Safe Water Enterprises can provide safe water securely and affordably to water stressed cities that are coping with dense populations due to increased migration and urbanization.
This report recommends small water enterprises (SWEs) in city planning for the creation of resilient cities. It also highlights the benefits and potential of expanding the SWE category in the urban environment.
Safe Water Network (SWN) is continuing our work in India to enhance water quality at our iJal Stations. Our goal when working with UL is to refine and standardize a Station Assessment Framework.
This Report focuses on the policy and enabling environment for safe/small water enterprises (SWEs) for the urban poor in India.
This report puts forth a framework and policy guidelines to help achieve "Har Ghar Jal" (water for every home) by 2030, and address emerging issues by shifting the country's heavy dependency on groundwater sources to surface water, improving service delivery standards, and encouraging a paradigm shift towards metered, household piped water connections for all.
