By Petri Autio · · Case Studies & Projects
Zimbabwe's Ministry of Health and Child Care runs its own national water, sanitation, and hygiene information system on mWater. Ministry staff build their own surveys, decide who can see what, and bring in health data from DHIS2. Manager Milliton Chivasa explains what keeps a national system useful after launch.
By Petri Autio · · Company & Vision
Product reflections after World Water Week 2026. mWater has become prominent in the WASH sector, which means accountability and trust matter more than ever.
By Petri Autio · · Product & Features
mWater users, utilities foremost among them, stand to gain real monetary value and much more by adopting workflows. mWater's Head of Product, Petri Autio, reflects on the lessons so far.
By Susan Lamb · · Product & Features
mWater's Sanitation Asset Standard gives practitioners such as service providers, government regulators, and development partners a common language for sanitation assets, so that data can be collected once, understood consistently, and reused across tools and institutions.
By Petri Autio · · Company & Vision
mWater is in Geneva for the AI for Good Global Summit at Palexpo (7–10 July), the United Nations' flagship AI event, organized by the ITU and co-convened with the Government of Switzerland.
By Petri Autio · · Product & Features
How mWater designed its platform for AI agents: an MCP server, human-in-the-loop data writes, and four lessons for anyone building data platforms in WASH.
By Petri Autio · · Product & Features
Horizon is a free app that helps anyone, anywhere understand their risk from riverine flooding and heavy rainfall — with Yellow/Orange/Red awareness levels, a 10-day rainfall outlook, and a live satellite storm view for places weather radar doesn't reach.
By Fahmi Faridz · · Data Deep Dives
We looked at how over 7,000 organizations are structured on mWater, and the range has impressed us.
By Fahmi Faridz · · Data Deep Dives
Almost 260,000 data points classified using the JMP service ladder from Open Defecation through to Safely Managed.
By Petri Autio · · Company & Vision
360,000 users. 198 countries. 46 million surveys. 6.7 million infrastructure sites. We published our platform numbers in one place.
By Fahmi Faridz · · Data Deep Dives
Where are the world's food systems actually taking shape? On farms and in forests that someone has to map.
By Petri Autio · · Product & Features
Connect any external data source to mWater, or share mWater data with any external system, using plain language. The AI builds the integration for you. Funded by UNICEF Madagascar.
By Fahmi Faridz · · Data Deep Dives
2.6 million survey responses. Over 13 million standardized indicator results. We dug into the data behind the Global Indicator Library.
By Fahmi Faridz · · Data Deep Dives
In 2025, mWater received 1,578 problem reports from users collecting data in the field across mobile and web environments. Ease of use and user satisfaction are paramount as we run and develop our platform.
By Fahmi Faridz · · Data Deep Dives
Since 2014, over 200,000 survey designs have been created in mWater and more than 44 million responses submitted.
By Fahmi Faridz · · Data Deep Dives
Building sustainable water services is less about the initial construction and more about the quiet work that happens every day to keep systems running.
By Fahmi Faridz · · Data Deep Dives
Looking at publicly visible Portal activity provides a useful window into how the mWater Portal supports day-to-day water system management.
By Fahmi Faridz · · Data Deep Dives
A sharp rise in E. coli detection rates from 2021 to 2025 shows contamination is not isolated but widespread — underscoring the need for consistent water quality testing.
By Fahmi Faridz · · Data Deep Dives
An animation of water point infrastructure mapped over the last ten years, each dot representing one of the more than one million points mapped.
By Petri Autio · · Company & Vision
Summarizing the year's developments and projects — from the collapse of USAID to major new feature releases in customer management, billing, accounting, and workflows.
By Petri Autio · · Product & Features
From automating leak repair assignments to streamlining customer onboarding, Workflows integrates with your existing mWater data to boost capital efficiency, ensure revenue, and speed up response times.
By Petri Autio · · Company & Vision
See how mWater's free, user-owned platform turns shared data into global impact. Every new user strengthens the system — better insights, faster learning, more effective investment.
By Petri Autio · · Product & Features
Local servers carry big risks: crashes, outdated software, funding gaps, and floods. mWater's cloud platform offers enterprise-grade security, daily backups, disaster recovery, and full data export anytime.
By Petri Autio · · Product & Features
How mWater's free tools help utilities move from fragmented systems to integrated management — bringing assets, billing, finance, maintenance, and planning together in one platform.
By Petri Autio · · Company & Vision
Five common myths about water services, and how mWater's features as a digital public good help utilities, communities, and governments move past them toward resilient, data-driven delivery.
By Rémy Simon · · Product & Features
New billing, accounting, and management features give water operators the ability to centralize customer, operational, and financial data in the same place.
By Rémy Simon · · Company & Vision
While water point mapping is at the core of mWater, practitioners worldwide use the platform to manage infrastructure, respond to crises, and track performance at scale.
By Petri Autio · · Product & Features
With free, integrated tools for customer management, billing, and accounting, that vision is within reach. By connecting assets, people, and finances in one platform, utilities become more efficient and financially resilient.
By Binepe Bwambale · · Case Studies & Projects
A closer look at the development and implementation of Papua New Guinea's National WASH Monitoring System, with an in-depth exploration of the six-phase approach that made it a reality.
By Binepe Bwambale · · Case Studies & Projects
As part of USAID STAWI, mWater is creating tailored MIS for nine counties in Kenya — centralizing water infrastructure data, conducting surveys, and collaborating with local stakeholders.
By Binepe Bwambale · · Case Studies & Projects
UNICEF and mWater collaborated in Guinea-Bissau on a digital Community-Led Total Sanitation (CLTS) system to track and coordinate efforts toward open defecation-free status by 2030.
By Petri Autio · · Case Studies & Projects
In Indonesia, urban water services are run by PDAMs (local government-owned utilities). We share experiences from two PDAMs that have been using mWater to manage their data.
By Petri Autio · · Case Studies & Projects
Di sini kami berbagi pengalaman dari dua PDAM yang telah memanfaatkan mWater dalam mengelola data mereka.
By Binepe Bwambale · · Case Studies & Projects
How Save the Children International South Sudan secured LIFTLAB funding to pilot a real-time monitoring system of WASH facilities using the mWater platform.
By Binepe Bwambale · · Company & Vision
mWater's integrated approach offers a free, user-friendly system for low-resource governments — maintaining infrastructure awareness and managing distributed tasks like preventative maintenance or emergency response.
By Petri Autio · · Case Studies & Projects
How Aqua Clara Kenya transformed its WASH solutions in East Africa with mWater. With over 9,104 clients' data centralized, mWater simplifies data management and improves service delivery.
By Amanda Gibbins · · Interviews & Team
Moline Chauruka is an irrigation and water engineer with the Department of Irrigation Development in Zimbabwe. She speaks about her part in the recent mWater early-stages training in Zimbabwe.
By Amanda Gibbins · · Interviews & Team
Ireen Mangoro and Elvis Mupfiga work for the World Bank in Zimbabwe on efforts to map dams in the country. They talk about their work and their experience with mWater training.
By Amanda Gibbins · · Interviews & Team
Hope Annette Namaganda is an mWater data manager based in Uganda and research and innovations officer for GLOFORD. She discusses her work and a recent trip to train new users in Zimbabwe.
By Petri Autio · · Interviews & Team
Denis Okello is program manager for WASH at GLOFORD Uganda and an mWater data manager. He recently travelled to Zimbabwe to train personnel in the app and portal.
By Petri Autio · · Interviews & Team
Bwambale is a data manager for mWater in Uganda. We interviewed him in the field while facilitating training with 100 young people in Lira, Uganda.
By Amanda Gibbins · · Product & Features
The mWater Global Indicator Library makes it easy to measure progress toward the SDG targets. A click adds WHO/UNICEF JMP standardized questions to your survey, and the portal determines your service level automatically.
By Amanda Gibbins · · Company & Vision
Data is pivotal in driving global change. mWater's approach underlines that data's true value lies in its real-world impact — when integrated into daily tasks, it becomes a potent tool for progress.
By Petri Autio · · Product & Features
An actionable guide on how to create strong passwords, best handle user accounts, and protect yourself against phishing attacks.
By Amanda Gibbins · · Case Studies & Projects
Working with the Ugandan Ministry of Water and Environment to provide real-time data and analytics — tracking water service levels to help meet national and international targets for access and safety.
By Jessalin Nguyen · · Case Studies & Projects
How can safe water enterprises benefit from mWater? Project Maji shows how data collection and analysis features support a young non-profit with data-driven management for WASH services.
By Binepe Bwambale & Jessalin Nguyen · · Case Studies & Projects
Educated yet unemployed youth find skills and opportunities through mWater, resulting in sustainable livelihoods and improved standards of living.
By Amanda Gibbins · · Case Studies & Projects
Carly Baja is the training director for mWater in Haiti. mWater helped the Haitian water monitoring sector transform from NGO efforts to government-led activity to utility-level management.
By Amanda Gibbins · · Interviews & Team
This interview with Carly gives insight into the challenges faced in Haiti, and how mWater's work has supported improvements in data collection and analytics.
By Amanda Gibbins · · Case Studies & Projects
Carly Baja est le directeur de formation chez mWater en Haïti. mWater a aidé le secteur de la surveillance de l'eau potable à parvenir à une gestion au niveau du service public.
By Amanda Gibbins · · Interviews & Team
Cet entretien avec Carly vise à donner un aperçu des défis auxquels Haïti est confronté et de la manière dont le travail de mWater a soutenu les améliorations dans la collecte et l'analyse des données.
By Petri Autio · · Interviews & Team
In summer 2023, Fahmi Faridz joined the mWater team as Indonesia Country Data Manager, bringing his penchant for data analysis and a history of working with data.
By Petri Autio · · Company & Vision
mWater contributes tools and resources for anyone to use in data-driven management of WASH — from standardized indicators to the open-source code underpinning hundreds of projects.
By Petri Autio · · Product & Features
New fixes and features come online in mWater every week. Here's a summary of the key feature updates from 2022.
By Petri Autio · · Interviews & Team
Ellen Greggio joins the growing mWater team from WaterAid UK, where she supported government-led WASH monitoring and data use for planning and budgeting.
By Petri Autio · · Product & Features
Asset systems in mWater let you freely map and track all of your water system data anywhere in the world, to the level of detail that works best for you.
By Petri Autio · · Product & Features
Setting up an Organization in mWater lets users easily scale up monitoring and management work for any number of users, contexts, and data collection processes.
By Petri Autio · · Case Studies & Projects
How BASEflow Malawi used mWater in response to Cyclone Idai to track rehabilitation progress and verify internally displaced populations — earning a MINIMAX award for this work.
By Petri Autio · · Product & Features
Any mWater user can now bring the EquityTool question set into their survey and assess which wealth quintile a household belongs in.
By Petri Autio · · Company & Vision
The dream of making significant progress on a seemingly intractable problem did not begin with international development, but it is currently most alive in our sector.
By Petri Autio · · Company & Vision
Solstice is an operating system for governance in low-resource regions. As what gets measured gets done, Solstice approaches eradicating global poverty with the ability to measure better, more meaningful data.
By Petri Autio · · Company & Vision
During the strangely short days of quarantine, overwhelmed by news of the pandemic, I find myself thinking forward a year or two. What will the world look like then?
By Petri Autio · · Product & Features
Los sistemas de activos en mWater ahora le permiten mapear y rastrear libremente todos los datos de su sistema de agua en cualquier parte del mundo con el nivel de detalle que más le convenga.
By Petri Autio · · Product & Features
Sistem aset di mWater sekarang memungkinkan Anda untuk secara bebas memetakan dan melacak semua data sistem air Anda di mana saja di dunia dengan tingkat detail yang paling sesuai.