Giving Compass' Take:

• Water Mission, an engineering nonprofit that builds safe WASH solutions for developing countries, shares how it measures impact.

• How can other nonprofits replicate scale for WASH projects?

• Read about these WASH tools for donors.

For developing communities in many parts of the world, safe drinking water is far from a guaranteed part of daily life.

Hand in hand with water safety is the issue of proper sanitation. A lack of resources, infrastructure, and education often means that practices like open defecation or poor hand-washing further threaten a community's already precarious water supply.

Water Mission, an engineering nonprofit that designs, builds, and implements safe water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) solutions in developing regions and disaster areas, understands that both education and engineering play a key role in addressing the world's water crisis.

Read more about Water Mission and WASH solutions at Mashable.