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What AI Can Find Is Not What AI Should Trust
Building a public-interest assurance layer so AI agents can find resources that are trustworthy, fit for purpose and useful to governments.
Building for the Future: An AI Strategy for WASH Data
Our users are showing up with AI agents, and the question for every data platform is no longer whether agents will arrive, but whether you've built them a proper way in. The design principle, the MCP server, and four lessons from shipping AI for 390,000+ users.
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How Zimbabwe’s health ministry runs and adapts its own national WASH information system
How Zimbabwe’s Ministry of Health and Child Care uses and adapts its own WASH information system, connecting water quality monitoring, local action, and health data.
Utility software as digital public infrastructure
Two reflections from the IWA World Water Congress: more common utility capabilities can become freely available shared infrastructure, while AI and better tools can give local practitioners a powerful multiplier for practical knowledge and ambition.
From local ambition to institutional capability
How Solstice helps people and institutions turn locally grown ambition into systems they can operate, adapt, and make their own.
Agent-Boundary Uncertainty
The Hugging Face incident makes it clear a missing mode of alignment discourse is to ask which boundary contains the thing we are trying to align.
“mWater is the backbone of the WASH sector”
Reflections from Stockholm World Water Week 2026. On trust, software velocity, the network effects of interconnected features, and why the impact could be tenfold greater still.
Nine Months of Workflows in mWater
Nearly ten thousand workflow instances across 170+ types. Repair, maintenance, connections, procurement, and more. What we've learned from seeing workflows deployed at scale, and why defined processes are a multi-million-dollar opportunity for the WASH sector.
mWater Launches Horizon: A Free Flood and Rainfall Awareness App
A free app that helps individuals anywhere in the world understand their risk from riverine flooding and heavy rainfall, built on GloFAS, ECMWF, EUMETSAT, and NASA data.
Introducing the mWater Integrator: AI-Powered Data Import and Export
Connect any external data source to mWater, or share mWater data with any external system, using plain language. AI builds the integration for you.
From Assets to Accounting: A New Era of Free, Integrated Management for Water Utilities
Customer and billing management plus a complete double-entry accounting suite for water utilities, and why their true power lies in their integration.
Asset Systems in mWater: Mapping Entire Water Systems
Freely map and track all of your water system assets anywhere in the world: sources, tanks, pipes, valves, and meters, with hierarchies, dashboards, and the USAID-funded Water System Management Standard.
Earlier writing on Medium
Digitizing operations and maintenance, unlocking finance for small water providers, national WASH data management in Malawi, and more.