Mission
TivaWater is a non-profit that brings hope and healing to the world's most vulnerable communities through our revolutionary water filter in Jesus' name.
Core Values
INNOVATION
Our goal is to provide the best point-of-use water filter in the world. We will achieve this through a commitment to quality, research, innovation and integrity. Our team continually conducts field research by visiting people using a TivaWater filter. This knowledge equips us to continually adapt and improve our filter's flow rates, ease of use, longevity and purity.
COLLABORATION
We cannot provide clean water to the world on our own, so we partner with other NGO's and individual donors to distribute and fund filters.
JOB CREATION
Our non-profit helps fund business people to open locally-owned distribution companies that compete in the marketplace. Building sustainable companies provides quality jobs giving many people the resources to provide for families. The TivaWater filters is creating a new market at an affordable price point for the millions of urban dwellers in emerging markets. World Health Organization believes that this economic approach is the only possible hope to solve the immense clean water problem.
SHARING GOD'S LOVE
"Love your neighbor as yourself." Providing filters to those in need is a tangible way to show God's love and compassion. We pray that through our work others will see, hear and know the hope, peace and wholeness found in Jesus.
Our goal is to provide the best point-of-use water filter in the world. We will achieve this through a commitment to quality, research, innovation and integrity. Our team continually conducts field research by visiting people using a TivaWater filter. This knowledge equips us to continually adapt and improve our filter's flow rates, ease of use, longevity and purity.
COLLABORATION
We cannot provide clean water to the world on our own, so we partner with other NGO's and individual donors to distribute and fund filters.
JOB CREATION
Our non-profit helps fund business people to open locally-owned distribution companies that compete in the marketplace. Building sustainable companies provides quality jobs giving many people the resources to provide for families. The TivaWater filters is creating a new market at an affordable price point for the millions of urban dwellers in emerging markets. World Health Organization believes that this economic approach is the only possible hope to solve the immense clean water problem.
SHARING GOD'S LOVE
"Love your neighbor as yourself." Providing filters to those in need is a tangible way to show God's love and compassion. We pray that through our work others will see, hear and know the hope, peace and wholeness found in Jesus.
A Brief History
In 2008, our co-founders led a group of friends on a vision trip to Uganda primarily to create entrepreneurial opportunities for indigenous Christian business graduates. During this time our team was introduced to bio-sand filter technology. After 3 years of research and development, time in East Africa, and countless hours in labs the TivaWater 1.0 filter was created. In 2011, we distributed our first batch of 3,200 filters in Uganda and were awarded water quality certification from Uganda National Bureau of Standards. After continued research and development, we launched the TivaWater 2.0, which improved on ease of use, flow rate and size. Today, over 300,000 people drink from a TivaWater filter- including the Ugandan Minister of Water.