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...
Jul 25, 2025
WEFTA in Honduras WEFTA has been engaged in safe water provision in rural Honduras for over 20 years. As part of this abiding commitment, our volunteers travel to villages in the country to evaluate and support new community-managed water systems. Examples of...
Aug 1, 2024
WEFTA volunteer Scott McKitrick enjoys meeting people in communities wherever his work takes him. A geologist employed by Souder, Miller & Associates in Albuquerque, New Mexico, Scott wants to know how people in various communities live on a daily basis, organize,...
Aug 25, 2023
Lam Ho marvels at the powerful impact that WEFTA water and sanitation infrastructure projects have on rural and indigenous communities. It is what motivates the engineer to continue his volunteer activities. He cites, for example, the dramatic improvement in the...
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