About Clean Water For All
What we do
Clean Water For All delivers community-led, smart water access solutions for Indigenous and remote Australian communities.
We bring together governments, businesses, and Australians to develop safe, secure and sustainable water solutions.
Our expertise lies in building enduring partnerships with communities to facilitate culturally appropriate water infrastructure, combined with innovative and digital monitoring, modelling and management.
Delivering community-led solutions for safe and reliable drinking water
We are a Profit for Purpose social venture on a mission is deliver clean water for every Australia, regardless of their location.
Our mission aligns with the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goal 6.1: “Universal and equitable access to safe and affordable drinking water.”
Together, with our charity partners, we have delivered smart water systems to more than 1700 communities over the last decade, providing water access solutions to 1,000,000 people already.
Our 2030 Vision
Every Australian, regardless of their location, has access to safe and reliable drinking water by 2030.
Origins & Growth
In 2022, Clean Water For All was developed from a partnership with leading water access NGOs, Fairaction International and Essential Need. They have successfully delivered smart water infrastructure to remote communities in need of safe and reliable drinking water for the past decade. This demonstrates what is possible if water solutions are led by community, adapted for their local context, and monitored for durability using intelligent modelling and management.
Since then, we have partnered with Indigenous sustainability consultancy Climate Connect to engage communities in need, the Australian Government to provide funding, and Holtmann Professional Services to scale up our solution nationally.
Our Water Security Analyser Framework was developed and refined through real world water infrastructure deployment in one of the world’s most challenging environments for water access, Nigeria. Here, communities had failing infrastructure, scarce data availability and fragmented governance.
The framework we developed successfully addresses 265 unique water sustainability challenges that were identified through extensive field research and diagnostics as part of our solution deployment. This framework is recognised globally as an adaptable model contributing to international water security, and the learnings directly inform our implementation of water access projects in remote Australia.
Clean Water For All also developed the Predictive Iterative Sustainability Framework over 8 years of water infrastructure deployment and research to predict and respond to infrastructure reliability, and we built an algorithmic software platform that enables end to end project management of our deployed solution. From pre construction assessment to post construction monitoring, we deliver water access solutions that are community led and designed to last.
Our Water Charity Partners
Fairaction International
Established in 2016, Fairaction International leads transdisciplinary research that underpins our smart water solution, integrating science, culture, and real world experience into a cohesive Water Security Analyser Framework. This has enabled the development of water access solutions that are not only technically sound but socially responsive, culturally grounded, and environmentally resilient.
Essential Need
Established in 2015, Essential Need leads the technological enablement of our solution by developing automation tools such as the Target 6.1 software, and Predictive Iterative Sustainability Framework. This software supports pre construction decision making right through to post construction solution monitoring to ensure projects are effectively managed, transparently tracked, and sustainable over the long term.
Our Track Record
Over the past decade, our charity partners have built incredible momentum and a successful track record of water infrastructure delivery. This includes visiting and mapping more than 1,700 communities for water insecurity and local cultural context, a 98% system reliability achieved across smart infrastructure pilots, and 100% sustainability rating at our pilot sites through predictive analytics and advanced software management.
Strategic Leadership
CWFA brings together deep research, advanced technology, and strategic governance under one unified, mission-driven team.
Our structure blends leadership, innovation, and field-tested capacity to deliver scalable, sustainable water solutions across remote communities in Australia.
Rez Haremi
Sam Adeoti
Peter Holtmann
An integrated, end-to-end framework that covers pre construction needs analysis through to post-construction monitoring and intervention.
Identified through extensive field diagnostics and transdisciplinary research, validated through real world application and adapted to the local Australian context.
Our solution is grounded in measurable outcomes, with project sites tracked using real time data and field observations to ensure long term sustainability. These metrics enable early detection of technical and financial risks before they escalate.
Impact metrics include Reliability Rating (measures service continuity and down time), Water Quality (field and laboratory tests), Predictive Monitoring (parameters determine proxy microbial risk), and Community Feedback (perceived accessibility and satisfaction).
Our Smart Water Solution
One Framework, dealing with 265 water sustainability challenges, backed by predictive modelling and software to ensure long term water access infrastructure sustainability.
Our solution offers more than infrastructure, we provide a complete, field-tested system for delivering safe water services in complex, under resourced environments. Our approach is informed by real-world lessons and specifically addresses the key systemic gaps identified in remote Australian communities. For example, many Australian communities have low quality water, from unreliable water infrastructure (if available at all), and First Nations are disproportionately affected, exacerbating existing inequalities.
Our Water Security Analyser Framework tackles 265 water sustainability challenges as identified over the past decade of delivering water infrastructure to remote communities. This framework has been validated through extensive real-world application in complex environments and is now being used to deliver water access throughout Australia. The framework is supported by tools such as our Predictive Iterative Sustainability Model, Target 6.1 Software, and context-specific delivery model.
Our approach for safe and secure water access combines predictive modelling with community led solutions for sustainable and culturally appropriate results.
Preventing the Worst from Happening
Our solution prevents adverse situations arising from poor water infrastructure and access projects, like we have seen delivered in the field in Nigeria. For example, a borehole was installed for a community that had been drinking from a contaminated stream. The borehole worked for several years but then it wasn’t maintained because there was no ongoing funding, and it fell into disrepair.
The community returned to drinking from the contaminated stream which was by now even more contaminated. Water consumption then resulted in increased health issues from waterborne diseases due to the increased contamination and the community’s lack of immunity.
This situation could have been prevented by a solution that integrated predictive monitoring, proactive intervention, long term maintenance, and cultural alignment to the local context.
Such as that provided by Clean Water For All.
Our Process
Tailor water infrastructure and service model to align with cultural needs and expectations, site-specific factors such as bore quality, remoteness and terrain, and operational context. Solutions are co-designed with communities to ensure ownership and value alignment.
Deliver infrastructure, train local operators, and establish digital performance monitoring systems to ensure accurate tracking and maintenance.
Proactive intervention is delivered by using the Target 6.1 Software to track and respond to real-time performance metrics such as reliability, water quality, and community feedback. Software monitoring insights are used to continuously improve water access and inform the design of subsequent infrastructure.
Our Solution Addresses the Causes of Water Insecurity
Australia’s water insecurity, especially in remote and Indigenous communities, is driven by a complex mix of systemic challenges.
Harsh climate conditions, prolonged drought, and growing pressure on groundwater supplies have made water scarcity a persistent threat. Many communities rely on ageing or inadequate infrastructure, with limited access to water treatment or safe storage. Funding for water systems remains fragmented across different levels of government, often delivered as short-term fixes rather than long-term solutions. Indigenous voices are too often excluded from water governance, despite deep cultural and ecological knowledge. Poor water quality, lack of consistent monitoring, and the high cost of maintaining systems in geographically isolated areas all contribute to unsafe and unreliable water access for tens of thousands of Australians.
Our solution addresses these challenges, closing the gap on water insecurity in Australia.
Lack of Longevity
Water infrastructure is often not sustainable over the long term. Our Framework integrates pre construction planning and post construction monitoring, identifying risks and mitigation for project longevity.
Fragmented Funding
Programs are often funded through a patchwork of independently operated initiatives, leading to inefficiencies and gaps in delivery. This lack of coordination between government, communities and NGOs leads to inadequate investments. We provide targeted investment and coordination across stakeholders for efficient project implementation.
Infrastructure Failure
Remote infrastructure is often based on urban water design principles causing misalignment between the problem and the solution. We adapt the modular infrastructure to suit the local water context to ensure it's designed with maintainability in mind, accounting for bore quality, water chemistry, logistics, climate resilience, remoteness and terrain.
Disjointed Delivery
Projects are often delivered through disconnected programs that separately handle assessment, implementation, and monitoring, with little continuity or accountability. We eliminate this fragmentation by delivering an end to end solution, integrating needs analysis with post-construction monitoring.
Monitoring Analysis
Remote infrastructure failure is often not detected quickly due to a lack of monitoring. Our solution is equipped with Internet of Things technology to continuously monitor gap analysis. Where IoT is not viable, we train the local community partners with offline tools for consistent reporting.
Community Co-Design
We integrate community needs, culture, and values, to ensure community ownership, alignment and long-term success. This ensures solutions are tailored to specific community needs and prevents misalignment.
* Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering (ATSE). (2024, May). Closing the Water Gap: Access to Safe Drinking Water in Remote Indigenous Communities.
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