Building a more
water-resilient
world

Building a more water-resilient world

Global Water Challenge works collaboratively with our partners to reduce water-related risk and to contribute to community and basin resiliency.

Global Water Challenge works collaboratively with our partners to reduce water-related risk and to contribute to community and basin resiliency.

Meaningful partnerships that deliver measurable water security outcomes.

Meaningful partnerships that deliver measurable water security outcomes.

Our approach

Supporting partners from strategy through implementation by:

  • ASSESSING water risks and identifying impactful solutions
  • DEVELOPING meaningful goals and commitments
  • DESIGNING programs that deliver measurable results
  • MOBILIZING co-investment and innovative financing
  • MANAGING a portfolio of locally implemented projects
  • MEASURING, monitoring, and validating long-term impacts

Photo credit: BRENT STIRTON, Getty Images

Photo credit: BRENT STIRTON, Getty Images

Our approach

Supporting partners from strategy through implementation by:

  • ASSESSING water risks and identifying impactful solutions
  • DEVELOPING meaningful goals and commitments
  • DESIGNING programs that deliver measurable results
  • MOBILIZING co-investment and innovative financing
  • MANAGING a portfolio of locally implemented projects
  • MEASURING, monitoring, and validating long-term impacts

Globally managed.
Locally delivered.

We develop and manage a portfolio of high-impact water stewardship, resilience, and community access solutions that address locally relevant water challenges.

Through a network of trusted local partners and regional experts, our programs are grounded in local conditions while leveraging the best global insights and innovations.

The result is a scalable model that turns water commitments into measurable impact – for people, ecosystems, and business.

Globally managed.
Locally delivered.

We develop and manage a portfolio of high-impact water stewardship, resilience, and community access solutions that address locally relevant water challenges.

Through a network of trusted local partners and regional experts, our programs are grounded in local conditions while leveraging the best global insights and innovations.

The result is a scalable model that turns water commitments into measurable impact – for people, ecosystems, and business.

Our results

Healthier watersheds
through nature-based solutions and improved resource management

Resilient communities
with improved WASH infrastructure and scalable sustainable farming models

Stronger utilities
and water service providers
with improved capacity and tools to efficiently meet water demands

Healthier watersheds
through nature-based solutions and improved resource management

Resilient communities
with improved WASH infrastructure and scalable sustainable farming models

Stronger utilities
and water service providers
with improved capacity and tools to efficiently meet water demands

Corporate services

Water security solutions and partnerships for companies of all sizes and stages.

GWC helps businesses move from water commitments to measurable outcomes through a suite of proprietary tools and services.

Corporate services

Water security solutions and partnerships for companies of all sizes and stages.

GWC helps businesses move from water commitments to measurable outcomes through a suite of proprietary tools and services.

Replenishment strategies

Credible, basin-informed replenishment goals, investment plans, and project pipelines.

Partnership mapping and management

Coordination of local implementers, stakeholders, and program delivery.

Co-investment and water finance

Mobilizing capital and collaborative funding to scale impact.

Water impact accounting

Quantifying water security and community benefits at watershed and basin scales, using best practice approaches and methodologies.

Replenishment strategies

Credible, basin-informed replenishment goals, investment plans, and project pipelines.

Partnership mapping and management

Coordination of local implementers, stakeholders, and program delivery.

Co-investment and water finance

Mobilizing capital and collaborative funding to scale impact.

Water impact accounting

Quantifying water security and community benefits at watershed and basin scales, using best practice approaches and methodologies.

Water security roadmaps

Assessing operational and basin level risks and identifying priority actions to support business continuity and long-term basin security.

Dashboards and analytics

Centralized portfolio management, monitoring, evaluation, and reporting.

Solutions catalog

Access to proven water stewardship, watershed restoration, nature-based, community, water and technology solutions.

Volumetric validation and verification

Deep dive portfolio review to support internal and external claims related to water, replenishment, and community impacts.

Water security roadmaps

Assessing operational and basin level risks and identifying priority actions to support business continuity and long-term basin security.

Dashboards and analytics

Centralized portfolio management, monitoring, evaluation, and reporting.

Solutions catalog

Access to proven water stewardship, watershed restoration, nature-based, community, water and technology solutions.

Volumetric validation and verification

Deep dive portfolio review to support internal and external claims related to water, replenishment, and community impacts.

GWC provides full life-cycle support for water security programming

Assess

risks and prioritize basins for action

Identify

solutions to reduce risks in priority basins

Align

internal/external stakeholders on shared vision; mobilize co-funding

Mobilize

local teams and implementing partners

Deliver

locally-led solutions and monitor progress

Quantify

and report on immediate impacts

Monitor

and validate sustained impacts with local teams

Storytell

and validate sustained impacts with local teams

Our replenish for resilience approach

Our replenish for resilience approach

Spotlight

End-to-end utility strengthening
A GWC key competency to build institutional resilience and generate volumetric benefits.

Utilities everywhere are losing large volumes of treated water through aging infrastructure.

Through leak detection, pressure management, technology-enabled monitoring, and technical assistance, GWC is expert at one of the most cost-effective replenishment interventions available to:

  • Improve utility operating costs and efficiencies
  • Reduce basin extraction pressure
  • Connect water to homes, communities, and businesses
  • Leverage leading technology to transform systems management
  • Enable financial assistance and technical insight sharing

End-to-end utility strengthening
A GWC key competency to build institutional resilience and generate volumetric benefits.

Utilities everywhere are losing large volumes of treated water through aging infrastructure.

Through leak detection, pressure management, technology-enabled monitoring, and technical assistance, GWC is expert at one of the most cost-effective replenishment interventions available to:

  • Improve utility operating costs and efficiencies
  • Reduce basin extraction pressure
  • Connect water to homes, communities, and businesses
  • Leverage leading technology to transform systems management
  • Enable financial assistance and technical insight sharing

GWC enables partnerships to reduce water risks and strengthen resiliency for communities, nature, and business.

Europe, Central
Asia and the
Middle East

For 20+ years, GWC’s work across Europe, Central Asia, and the Middle East has addressed some of the world’s most complex and water-scarce environments.

Working with leading corporate and government partners, GWC-led platforms deliver integrated water stewardship programs that improve WASH access, restore watersheds, and promote sustainable agriculture in 17 countries in the region.

Project types

WASH Access

Nature-Based Solutions

Climate Resilience

Utility Strengthening

Sustainable Agriculture

Empowerment

Impact to date across 17 countries

41

FAO sub-basins with improved water security

382K+

People reached with WASH programs

3BL+

Liters of water replenished (2025)

4

Water utilities with improved capacity

37.4K+

Women empowered

55K+

Hectares restored or under improved management

20.2K+

Trees planted

1.6K+

Farmers trained in sustainable agriculture

Regional platforms

Asia Pacific

GWC’s Asia Pacific portfolio addresses water security across South Asia’s most vulnerable regions.

Across Asia, our programs with leading partners, including Gap Inc., The Coca-Cola Company, the United Nations, and other premier brands, support integrated watershed management, water access in schools and communities, agricultural water efficiency, and community and women’s empowerment.

In India and Pakistan, GWC mobilizes positive impact in stressed basins, bringing together local and international partners to build long-term water resilience.

Project types

WASH Access

Nature-Based Solutions

Climate Resilience

Utility Strengthening

Sustainable Agriculture

Empowerment

Impact to date across 7 countries

19

FAO sub-basins with improved water security

604K+

People reached with WASH programs

2.1BL+

Liters of water replenished (2025)

13

Water utilities with improved capacity

9.6K+

Women empowered

18.6K+

Hectares restored or under improved management

9K+

Trees planted

3.6K+

Farmers trained in sustainable agriculture

Regional platforms

Latin America
and the Caribbean

For 20+ years, GWC has provided deep and pioneering water stewardship expertise across Latin America and the Caribbean through partnerships with communities, local NGOs, and multinational companies.

Today, GWC’s best practices mobilize water access and improve water security region wide.

With leading partners, including Coca-Cola Latin America and its bottlersCargill, and Grundfos, GWC advances integrated watershed restoration, urban utility strengthening, sustainable agriculture, and WASH solutions, targeting the region’s most stressed basins with a goal to benefit 2.3 MM+ people by 2030.

Project types

WASH Access

Nature-Based Solutions

Climate Resilience

Utility Strengthening

Sustainable Agriculture

Empowerment

Impact to date across 17 countries

68

FAO sub-basins with improved water security

1.7MM+

People reached with WASH programs

16.1BL+

Liters of water replenished (2025)

35

Water utilities with improved capacity

251K+

Women empowered

16K+

Hectares restored or under improved management

322K+

Trees planted

1.1K+

Farmers trained
in sustainable agriculture

Regional platforms

Africa

For 20+ years, GWC has advanced water access and security across Africa through pioneering collective action platforms, including the pathbreaking Replenish Africa Initiative (RAIN) and the Water and Development Alliance (WADA), improving water access and security for thousands of communities and millions of people.

Today, the Africa Water Stewardship Initiative (AWSI) platform, with The Coca-Cola Company and its bottling system, and our Cargill Currents platform tackle Africa’s complex water security challenges across 41 countries through watershed restoration, water access, sustainable agriculture, systems strengthening, and community-led governance.

Project types

WASH Access

Nature-Based Solutions

Climate Resilience

Utility Strengthening

Sustainable Agriculture

Empowerment

Impact to date across 41 countries

112

FAO sub-basins with improved water security

7.8MM+

People reached with WASH programs

8.6BL+

Liters of water replenished (2025)

17

Water utilities with improved capacity

905K+

Women empowered

526K+

Hectares restored or under improved management

6.4MM+

Trees planted

42.4K+

Farmers trained in sustainable agriculture

Regional platforms

North America

For decades, GWC has actively mobilized solutions for water access, improved water quality and watershed resilience across the United States. GWC partnerships improve “last mile” water access, watershed restoration, nature-based solutions, and utility strengthening.

Our programming with the Kohler Trust for Clean Water supports underserved communities and improves access to water services, while GWC’s women for water platform delivers holistic water programming for women and their communities.  Across numerous states, our Cargill Currents platform drives positive outcomes for watershed resilience, wetland restoration, and ecosystem health.

Project types

WASH Access

Nature-Based Solutions

Climate Resilience

Utility Strengthening

Sustainable Agriculture

Empowerment

Impact to date across 14 USA states

35

FAO sub-basins with improved water security

536K+

People reached with WASH programs

3.3BL+

Liters of water replenished (2025)

56

Water utilities with improved capacity

300K+

Hectares restored or under improved management

262K+

Trees planted

Regional platforms