Assessing Water and Sanitation for Communities in El Salvador

Assessing Water and Sanitation for Communities in El Salvador

Along with our in-country partners, Paso Pacífico, WEFTA is visiting 6 communities this week in El Salvador within the Laguna Olomega watershed to assess water and sanitation issues. Infrastructure improvements needed in the area include access to protected...
Spotlight on Scott McKitrick: WEFTA Geologist Volunteer

Spotlight on Scott McKitrick: WEFTA Geologist Volunteer

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,...
Drinking Water for Cuipa Kahuaya

Drinking Water for Cuipa Kahuaya

After generations of relying on dirty river flows and contaminated, open wells, over 70 families of the community of Cuipa Kahuaya finally have access to safe, spring-fed water in their homes. WEFTA volunteers and father son team, Jason and Anthony Gehrig, traveled to...
Ensuring Sustainability: Checking in on Water Projects in Panama

Ensuring Sustainability: Checking in on Water Projects in Panama

Our goal is that completed projects continue providing benefits over time without outside assistance. In February, WEFTA volunteers Fr. Roberto Cumberland, Greg Branch, and Tim Wellman traveled to Panama to check in on ongoing, proposed, and completed projects. The...
Accolades for WEFTA partner, Chief Dom Nwachukwu

Accolades for WEFTA partner, Chief Dom Nwachukwu

Congratulations Chief Nwachukwu! Chief Dom Nwachukwu is founder and CEO of Groundwater Development & Engineering, LTD, a consulting engineering hydrogeological firm based in Port Harcourt, Nigeria. Chief Nwachukwu has worked extensively in the Niger Delta,...