Water at home changes what’s possible.

Water1st brings piped water and safe toilets to every home—creating healthier families, greater opportunity, and change that lasts for generations.

Water at home
changes what’s possible.

Water1st brings piped water and safe toilets to every home—creating healthier families, greater opportunity, and change that lasts for generations.

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Because access isn’t enough.

In the global water sector, “access” to water doesn’t always mean water at home. It can mean using a water filter, buying water from a vendor, or walking to collect and carry water from a handpump, public tap, spring, or other shared source—often leaving families with too little water for health, hygiene, and opportunity.

Carrying Water Home

Families waiting to collect water from a shared faucet
  • Water collected from a communal source must still be carried home
  • Limited water for handwashing & hygiene
  • Burden falls on women & girls
  • Water stored and re-contaminated

Water at Home

Water available for daily life at home
  • Water available at a tap at home on demand
  • Enough water for health
  • More time for school & work
  • Safer everyday use

The cost of carrying water

Around the world, women and girls spend hours collecting water—time taken from school, work, and opportunity—while often bringing home too little water for health, hygiene, and daily life.
Women tell us the same thing again and again: they want water at home.

We Bring Water Home™

The Bring Water Home™ approach is built on a simple idea: only water at home ends the walk for water and gives families enough water for health, hygiene, and opportunity. Our projects strengthen entire communities. We extend this standard to schools, clinics, and community spaces so everyone benefits from safe water and sanitation.

Water at Home

Enough water for drinking, cooking, handwashing, bathing, and daily life.

Safe Toilets

Health, privacy, dignity, and opportunity—especially for women and girls.

Local Partners

Trusted local organizations that help communities build, manage, and sustain systems over time.

Built to Last

We track reliability, maintenance, and whether water keeps flowing.

We Bring Water Home™

The Bring Water Home™ approach is built on a simple idea: only water at home ends the walk for water and gives families enough water for health, hygiene, and opportunity.

Our projects strengthen entire communities. We extend this standard to schools, clinics, and community spaces so everyone benefits from safe water and sanitation.

Built to last. Measured over time.

99+%

systems functioning

Because water that stops flowing isn’t lasting change.

24/7

Designed to be reliable

Water available at home—not just sometimes.

50 liters/day

Enough water for health

We design systems to provide 50 liters per person daily—to match public health standards.

100%

Metered and monitored

We monitor water use, reliability, and maintenance.

What women tell us they truly need.

Women tell us the same thing again and again: water at home. Because when water is available at the turn of a tap, families gain time, health, opportunity, and dignity.

Time returned

Hours once spent collecting water become time for school, work, rest, and family.

Health protected

Enough water for handwashing, bathing, cleaning, and safer sanitation.

Opportunity grows

Girls stay in school. Families can work, garden, and build income.

Privacy and dignity

Safe toilets and water at home improve safety—especially for women and girls.

Lasting change. Proven over time.

Since 2005, Water1st and local partners have helped bring water home—connecting hundreds of thousands of people to piped water, safe toilets, and healthier daily life.

294,000+

people reached

With piped water, safe toilets, and healthier daily life.

~$500

Connects a household

Piped water and safe toilets at home.

$25,000+

Lifetime impact

Health, education, time, and income gains that last generations.

Estimated from research on the long-term effects of water at home, including health, time savings, education, and economic opportunity.

Water at home. Around the world.

Water1st works alongside local partners in Bangladesh, Honduras, and Kenya to bring piped water and safe toilets to every home—and strengthen schools, clinics, and communities along the way.

Bangladesh

Safe water and sanitation solutions designed for dense communities where space, privacy, and health all matter.

Honduras

A cooperative of communities helping families in remote Lempira bring water home—and keep systems working for the long term.

Kenya

Bringing piped water home in rural communities where most families still rely on rivers, springs, and shared sources.

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What we’re learning

Pipe Dreams™ shares stories from communities, lessons from local partners, and why bringing water home changes what’s possible.

Honduras: What lasts when water comes home

A ribbon cutting in Esquingual becomes something more—a community telling its own history with humor, honesty, and relief.

Kenya: Infrastructure that keeps girls learning

At Magwako Primary School in Kokelo, piped water and thoughtfully designed toilets mean girls like Quinter don’t miss class—even on the hardest days. 

Bangladesh: From Clean Water to Clean Streets, Yasmin’s Story of Leadership in Khulna

With water and toilets at home, Yasmin found room to lead—co-running a neighborhood waste-collection service and strengthening her family’s future.

Every household deserves water at home.

Help bring piped water and safe toilets home to more families.

Every household deserves water at home.

Help bring piped water and safe toilets home to more families.