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About Operators Without Borders Operators Without Borders (OWB) is a registered charity with a mandate to assist water and wastewater utilities in developing countries recover from disasters. In addition to disaster recovery, OWB also provides free capacity building activities such as training, expertise and mentoring. The programs we offer are performed by volunteers who are trained operators or other water professionals from the USA and Canada. To date we have provided over $1.5million dollars of services and trained hundreds of operators The majority of OWB's work has been in the Caribbean but we have now expanded our reach to Africa and Asia. and are in the process of setting up OWB Australia to serve the Asian continent more effectively. OWB has also been very active in helping Ukraine as part of WaSH Ukraine and the Ukraine Water Quality Technical Advisory Team. OWB is unique in that, to the best of our knowledge, we are the only NGO whose mandate is to provide direct support to water and wastewater utilities, We are a Charity of Choice for many organizations such as WWETT and WEF. In our presentationwe will focus on the work OWB volunteers have done in the last year, what have been its impacts and why water professional volunteer their time.