Water First. Science Led. Poverty Focused.
Dos Corrientes is a poverty-alleviating organization that leads with science and advanced solutions to water scarcity, water contamination, and water system failure. Our work begins from a simple, evidence-based reality: without reliable access to clean water, progress in health, food security, education, and income generation cannot be sustained. Water is not a supporting input to development—it is the foundation upon which all durable community transformation depends.
We operate as a catalyst at the intersection of applied science and real-world conditions. Dos Corrientes convenes and supports an international team of scientists, academics, engineers, and practitioners working to advance and deploy next-generation water solutions in environments where conventional systems fail. Our role is not to replicate existing infrastructure models, but to champion new achievement, accelerate field validation, and ensure that promising science reaches communities facing the most severe water constraints.
Our water-first approach is intentionally integrated. Once water security can be established or stabilized, we layer practical food production, skill-based education, and locally relevant economic pathways in a deliberate sequence designed for durability and community agency. These elements are not stand-alone programs. They are interconnected systems that reinforce one another, reduce dependency, and support long-term resilience. Addressing poverty requires more than access—it requires capability, dignity, and ownership.
Dos Corrientes has also developed advanced education delivery systems designed to reach global populations, including communities in remote, environmentally degraded, or disaster-affected regions. Through technology-enabled platforms, we deliver practical instruction in food security, entrepreneurship, and skill development, with education shaped by local realities rather than abstract theory. This model allows us to combine deep field engagement with scalable reach, without compromising relevance or effectiveness.
Our work spans water-scarce regions, communities living with industrial and environmental contamination, and areas where climate-driven disruption or disaster has compromised existing water systems. In these settings, water insecurity is not incidental—it is structural. Illness, lost productivity, food insecurity, and generational poverty follow predictable patterns when water systems fail. Our focus is to intervene at that foundational level, where change becomes possible.
Dos Corrientes is building a replicable, science-led framework for poverty alleviation that starts with water and extends outward to food, skills, and economic resilience. We work with partners who understand that meaningful impact is not created through short-term intervention, but through systems that endure. Clean water is the beginning—not the end—of lasting change.
From backyard food gardens to English and entrepreneurship training, Dos Corrientes has spent six years strengthening families where opportunity is scarce. Now, we are expanding this model to confront the most urgent challenge of all: access to clean water—from coastal regions suffering chronic water shortages to Amazonian communities living with rivers poisoned by oil and mining contamination.
Our mission is simple: healthy food, strong education, local opportunity, and clean water for every family.
Real Work.
Real Change.
Real Communities.
What We Do
Our Story
Dos Corrientes began in coastal Ecuador, side by side with the village of Liguiqui to confront poverty at its roots. Over six years, we built a model shaped by real lives and real challenges—centered on home-based agriculture, English education, entrepreneurship, and now, clean-water solutions for both water-scarce regions and Amazonian communities whose rivers have been poisoned by oil and mining operations.
We do not impose programs. We listen, learn, and build with families so the solutions belong to them—and endure. This approach has strengthened households, restored dignity, and shown what true community-led development looks like.
The lessons forged in Ecuador now guide our broader mission and inform a practical course for future NGO founders—but the heart of our work remains simple and urgent: to give communities the tools, knowledge, and clean water they need to secure their own future.
Our Vision and Mission
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Vision: To transform communities affected by poverty, water scarcity, and environmental injustice into places of strength, opportunity, and lasting hope.
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Mission: We partner with communities to restore dignity and opportunity through home-based agriculture, education, entrepreneurship, and clean-water innovation in regions impacted by scarcity and contamination.
OUR APPROACH
Dos Corrientes is focused on one of the most persistent and consequential failures in global development: the lack of reliable access to clean, safe drinking water. Despite decades of effort, an estimated 2.4 billion people—roughly one quarter of the world’s population—still lack safely managed drinking water. Where water access is compromised, progress in health, food security, education, and economic participation does not endure. In practice, water is not one challenge among many; it is the enabling condition upon which all durable outcomes depend.
Our primary focus for 2026 is Canada’s Indigenous north and water-scarce and water-contaminated communities in the Global South. These regions face distinct geographies and histories, but share a common reality: conventional water infrastructure is often impractical, unreliable, or has repeatedly failed. Addressing water access in these environments requires approaches that move beyond traditional systems and single-issue interventions.
Recent advances in science and engineering have opened a narrow but critical window—one in which a problem long treated as intractable has become technically solvable. Dos Corrientes is advancing next-generation air-to-water systems enabled by proprietary nanomaterials developed by a theoretical physicist at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, in collaboration with engineering design teams at the University of Toronto and the Universidad Laica Eloy Alfaro de Manabí in Manta. Ecuador. Laboratory validation of these materials is complete, with independently verified results, and we are now entering the phase of applied field development.
Founded in 2019 through sustained, on-the-ground work in Ecuador, Dos Corrientes’ approach is grounded in a consistent field-based insight: without dependable access to clean water, gains in agriculture, education, and economic activity cannot be sustained. This water-first principle now anchors our model. Where water access can be reliably established, we integrate food security, income generation, and skill-based education through sequenced, community-informed interventions designed for durability, dignity, and local agency.
As we move from validated research and pilot deployment toward scaled application, Dos Corrientes is focused on careful field testing, technical refinement, and responsible expansion—ensuring that solutions perform under real environmental and social conditions. Our work is guided by applied science, rigorous research, and long-term operating discipline, with the goal of building systems that continue to function long after initial deployment.
