W3W fights against Hunger and Poverty in this world. It can achieve its objective thanks to a significant increase of small and marginal farmers' agricultural productivity. This can be achieved thanks to an efficient and thrifty management of the natural resources of water and soil with the help of capital-saving and innovative irrigation technologies as well as for the creation of productive employment.

W3W-Switzerland is politically neutral, humanitarian and free of commercial interests. Its sponsors can deduct their donations from income-tax. W3W-Switzerland’s collaborators do voluntary work. In July 1998 the Association ‘Water for the Third World’ (W3W) was founded, providing the legal structure through which cooperation with donors, private industry, sponsors, and official institutions could be arranged. Today W3W has more than 20 active members whose goal is to spread the new small-scale irrigation technology to voluntary agricultural development programms. By doing so, they hope to contribute to reducing poverty for as many people as possible. The Pedal Pump was scientifically tested by the University for Technology and Architecture in Luzern and was evaluated as outstanding.

The Pedal Pump