You drink safe water everyday, but millions don't.
Our mission is to provide safe water to communities in developing countries through empowerment, equal access and transformative hope. We are working toward a day when no person has to drink unsafe water.
More people in the world die each year from waterborne illnesses and poor sanitation than do in armed conflict.
Today, over 660 million people live without safe water. That's one out of ten people on the planet.
While the problem is huge, the solutions are simple. Using simple tools and effective training, an empowered community can care for its water for years to come.
At WaterStep, our hope is to see the day when no person has to drink unsafe water. We provide safe water to communities in developing countries. We do this through implementing our own water projects or by training others to do a water project.
Working together, safe water has been provided to thousands of communities around the world with water chlorination, repairing hand pumps, and teaching health education. You can provide safe drinking water to people who need it most. We can’t do this without you. Please join us by financially supporting one of our safe water projects or receive training to do it yourself.
Why?
Why do we give safe water? Because people are thirsty: People are literally dying because they don’t have access to safe water. WaterStep believes water is a gift, safe water is a tool for compassion, and providing safe water is the first step to a higher quality of life.
WaterStep Staff
Mark Hogg
Founder & CEO Mark.Hogg@WaterStep.org
Kurtis Daniels
Director of Training & Field Operations Kurtis.Daniels@WaterStep.org
Claudia Daniels
Director of International Partnerships and Missions Claudia.Daniels@waterstep.org
Sarah Yoder
Director of Finance Sarah.Yoder@waterstep.org
Lyssa Castor
Director of Marketing and Development Lyssa.Castor@waterstep.org
Joe Jacobi
Director of Manufacturing Joe.Jacobi@waterstep.org
Tyrei Hanlon
Digital Content Creator Tyrei.Hanlon@waterstep.org
Meredith Hogue
Accounting Associate Meredith.Hogue@waterstep.org
Ana Lorena Cespedes Lopez
Director of Operations Costa Rica Ana.Lorena@waterstep.org
WaterStep Board of Directors
RAHUL BAWA
President
CEO
PowerIT Solutions
GARRISON COX
Secretary
Communications Director
The Center for Nonprofit Excellence
LARRY SNYDER
Treasurer
Mercer Executive (retired)
CHRISTIAN CONDIT
President/Owner, Global Granite & Marble
NATALIE RIDER
Assistant Director
Organic Association of KY
SHARISE HORNE
Chief of Equity & Community Partnerships
Louisville MSD
DOUGLAS A. WEAVER
Attorney
VAUGHN PRUETT BELL, MDiv
President
Chief Business Development Officer, Landmark Recovery
CHELSEA RUEFF
Senior Clinical Research Associate
Merck & Co., Inc.
RAY DICKISON
President
Wesley Manor Retirement Community & Retirement Homes of KY
GREG HEITZMAN
President
BlueWater Kentucky
RICK SCHARDEIN
Founder & CEO
Current 360 (retired)
SIMON FLOYD
Google Cloud
ERIKA BROWN
Communication & Marketing Manager
Louisville Water Company
KEITH PHILLIPS
Finance Director
Humana, Inc.
WaterStep Advisory Board
Robert L. Brown Attorney, Lynch, Cox, Gilman & Goodman
Thad Druffel
CEO
Bert Thin Films
Nat Irvin
Futurist, MBA Professor
University of Louisville
Jim Ullum
Barbara Sexton Smith
Speaker, Author and Entreprenuer
Bill Smock
Medical Director
WaterStep Financials
We take financial stewardship seriously. With integrity and responsibility, we are ensuring that your dollars have the greatest impact on our partners and communities around the globe. WaterStep receives no federal or state funding. We rely on the support from individuals, foundations, educational institutions, churches and the business community.
Over the past couple years, WaterStep has improved the way we operate allowing us to have a higher impact while reducing our costs. We have developed a Virtual Training Program and International Storehouses, allowing us to decrease costly travel and training expenses. The result has been a game changer allowing more people trained, more equipment in the field and more lives saved.
WaterStep Privacy Policy
Your privacy is important to us. To better protect your privacy we provide this notice explaining our online information practices. Our privacy policy is simple: we collect no information about you unless you choose to provide that information to us. In addition, we do not give, share, sell or transfer any personal information about you to any third parties. To prevent unauthorized access, maintain accuracy, and ensure the correct use of information, we have put in place appropriate physical, electronic, and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure any information that we collect. If you have questions about our privacy practices, you can contact us at the postal or email address posted on this site.
WaterStep Non-discrimination Policy 1.2021
WaterStep is an inclusive, welcoming organization. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, gender, age, ancestry, religion, creed, political affiliation, disability, marital status, military status, sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression in hiring, promoting, and firing of staff; selecting volunteers and vendors; or providing services.