The Amazon presents a challenging environmental context. Households are isolated, land is flooded, and poverty is extreme. But our environmental engineers have the technical knowledge needed to design solutions suitable for the specific challenges of working in tropical, isolated environments. Because our engineers don’t simply study the Amazon, they live there.

We aren’t satisfied with simply believing we have solutions. We are scientists, and science demands evidence. Our team of applied ecologists monitors every rainwater and sanitation system for six months post-installation. That means we don’t just believe our systems work, we know they do. And we have over a decade’s worth of data to prove it.

We know our systems work. But we also know that for solutions to be sustainable, what matters is relationships. We need local knowledge. We need local ownership. And we need local trust. This is why we build every system in partnership with the people who will be using it. Because if you build it, you understand it. And if you understand it, you maintain it.