Why Safe Drinking Water?
The Water Access Catalyst focuses on the broader challenges that determine whether safe drinking water reaches people.
Access to safe drinking water is one of the most powerful drivers of human development. It improves health, strengthens livelihoods, supports education, and creates the foundation for resilient communities. This is why Sustainable Development Goal 6 is closely connected to nearly every other global development goal.
Providing safe drinking water requires more than simply delivering water. Communities face a wide range of challenges, from limited infrastructure and water contamination to high water losses. Sustainable access depends
on reliable systems that can consistently deliver safe,
affordable water.
Our Areas of Focus:
Basic Access
Communities without reliable water sources need infrastructure and delivery systems
Water Quality
When water is available but unsafe, contamination requires treatment at the source or point of extraction
Urban Growth
In growing cities, infrastructure fails to keep pace with demand, even when water exists nearby
System Efficiency
Non-revenue water, leakage, and weak operations limit what service providers can deliver
The Water AccessCatalyst Partners
The Water Access Catalyst was designed around this idea: using targeted catalytic support to unlock sustainable partnerships that continue delivering development impact long after the initial pilot.
Why The Private Sector?
At Nura Global Innovation Lab, we believe that one of the most catalytic ways to improve access to safe drinking water is by enabling proven technologies to reach the people and communities that need them most.
When we help local WASH organizations build strategic partnerships with Israeli water-tech companies to address real needs, we strengthen their ability to expand access, improve service delivery, and operate more efficiently. These partnerships also create sustainable pathways for Israeli companies to enter new markets.
Together, they create the conditions for impact to continue long after our direct involvement ends. Each successful partnership has the potential to reach new customers and beneficiaries, attract additional investment, and scale through commercial activity and local ownership.