Trotter and Associates’ Inc.’s Liz Heise, P.E. (Global Water Stewardship Chair) presented along with other Global Water Stewardship leaders Mohammed Haque (NMWRD), Eider Alvarez-Puras (JCI), Micah Pitner (CMT), and Joe Lapastora (NMWRD) at the WEFTEC Global Center.

The Global Center offers a space for learning about global water issues that includes two days of programming including presentations and panel discussions of global interest with topics ranging from energy efficiency to global water stewardship. Global Water Stewardship (GWS) is a non-profit organization sponsored by Trotter and Associates that works to provide sanitation facilities in the developing world by educating people and engineering sustainable centralized solutions that keep waterways clean and communities healthy.

This presentation introduced GWS’s history, goals, methods, and some of their current work to provide sustainable solutions to water quality issues in Costa Rica.  Global Water Stewardship (GWS) is an organization founded with the intent to bring together a network of water and sanitation professionals in Illinois, Minnesota, and Wisconsin to address the pressing issue that about 2.4 billion people lack access to improved sanitation worldwide.