Mar 10, 2026
From February 4–9, 2026, Water Engineers for the Americas (WEFTA) returned to San Miguelito, El Salvador, near El Imposible National Park, to assess and strengthen the community’s gravity-fed water systems serving approximately 160 connections. The visit was both...
Jan 30, 2026
After a 20-year career with the American Chemistry Council (ACC), Mary Ostrowski is today a WEFTA volunteer, not by working on water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) projects on the ground in the Americas or Africa, but by writing about those projects. Now retired and...
Nov 25, 2025
WEFTA’s 2025 work in Panama marked steady progress on rural water systems across the Comarca Ngäbe-Buglé and Bocas del Toro, despite months of road closures, heavy rains, and difficult transport conditions. During a February circuit-riding trip to 13 communities,...
Nov 17, 2025
The San Vicente de Paul school, community care center, and surrounding community in the District of Awajún in Peru’s San Martin department are on track to benefit from a new rainwater harvesting system and water purification plant. The school is operated by the...
Oct 17, 2025
In May 2025, WEFTA, in partnership with Suma Jayma (Partnership for Sustainable Local Development), successfully completed the installation of 185 family protected wells and hand pumps across the municipalities of Laja and Corocoro in La Paz Department, Bolivia. This...
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