Nicole Beetsch

Nicole (Nikki) Beetsch is the Director of Governmental, Non-Governmental, and Uniformed Services with NSF International (www.nsf.org) and has over 25 years of global technical and capacity building experience and collaboration at the community, academic, manufacturer and regulatory levels. Additionally, she has been seconded to the World Health Organization from NSF’s WHO Collaborating Center for Water since 2012 to assist with WHO’s International Scheme to Evaluate Household Water Treatment Technologies (“the Scheme”) and is a member of Rotary International’s e-club of WASH (D9999), the WASH Rotary Action Group (WASHRAG), and A Vision For Clean Water (Executive Director). Nikki is a graduate of Bowling Green State University (B.S. Biology) and Wright State University (M.S. Environmental Science/Toxicology).

Why are you involved with EcoThrive Initiatives?

EcoThrive’s approach to bringing safe water and sanitation to communities while creating a positive impact on those local economies is smart, engages the community directly, and creates an enabling environment for sustainability, the necessary criteria for truly ‘successful’ implementation. With this, EcoThrive is a leader in changing the reported narrative of 30-50% of WASH project failing due to not considering this holistic approach.