Caminos de Agua

Caminos de Agua is a community-focused, data-driven, and science-oriented NGO based in San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato, Mexico. Our mission is to improve human health and community well-being through adequate and affordable access to clean water. We design, develop, and implement water solutions with communities at risk in our watershed in central Mexico, and leverage those solutions for others confronting similar water challenges around the globe. We work in partnership with local communities, grassroots organizations, leading research institutions from around the world, government, and other diverse actors to innovate and implement water solutions that create adequate access to safe, healthy drinking water supplies.

Our core programs include water quality monitoring, development of water technologies (i.e. Aguadapt and the Groundwater Treatment System), community implementation of water and sanitation solutions (i.e. rainwater harvesting systems and composting toilets), educational programs and materials, and collaboration and network building to leverage wider systemic change. We also train aspiring, socially-responsible engineers, scientists, and other young professionals and interns looking ot make social and environmental impacts in their work. We are a mix of immigrant residents and Mexican, technologists and community organizers, researchers and educators — united by our concern for public health and welfare. Caminos de Agua is registered as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit in the U.S. as well as a Mexican Asociación Civil (A.C.).