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Overview

Timothy Muttoo is a Canadian engineer, inventor, entrepreneur and Co-founder and Executive Director of the innovative non-profit Canadian organization H2O 4 ALL. He graduated with a bachelor’s degree in Chemical Engineering from Ryerson University in Toronto and is currently pursuing a master’s degree in Public Health at Waterloo University. He has worked professionally as a licensed engineer in the pulp and paper, municipal and industrial water treatment, food processing, and chemical manufacturing sector across North America, designing, innovating and commercializing novel technology affecting millions of people in urban cities.

He co-founded the Canadian charity H2O 4 ALL in 2008, in efforts to develop sustainable water solutions by integrating innovative technology with his engineering expertise combined with his utmost desire to help impoverished communities due to his strong beliefs for humanity. H2O 4 ALL currently has projects in over nine different developing countries since 2008 and has come alongside 40 charitable organizations and 3 country governments, increasing the sustainability of interventions in rural settings. Muttoo has also partnered with Save The Mothers, an international charitable organization and United Nations University in Uganda to work on one of H2O 4 ALL’s major projects.

Education

Muttoo attended Ryerson University in Toronto for his bachelor’s degree in Chemical Engineering (1991-1996) and is currently pursuing a master’s degree in Public Health at Waterloo University (2013-2017). His work at Waterloo University involves designing clay filters in partnership with the non-profit organization Filter Pure. He redesigned the composition of FilterPure’s original product in an attempt to reduce production costs and make the filters more affordable for households in the Dominican Republic. The innovative, reduced-cost filters made of sawdust and silver remove are designed to remove 99.99 percent of all water contaminants in households without access to safe water. “It really is an engineering innovation, so many well-intentioned projects fail in developing countries because they aren’t sustainable or affordable,” said Muttoo. Timothy Muttoo volunteered to become an industry advisor to the Department of Chemical Engineering at Ryerson University as of 2016.

Career

Prior to establishing H2O 4 ALL in 2008, Timothy was employed in ERCO Worldwide as a Process Engineer (1995-2004), a company that serves municipal and industrial water treatment, food processing, fertilizers, oil and gas industries in North America. For the next six years, he held the position of Director of Engineering at Genieye Systems Inc., an innovative manufacturing company specializing in the fields of Water Purification, Pipe-Less Jet Motor Technology, Magnetic Pulsation and Wind Energy. Muttoo was also a technical advisor for Formarum Inc. (2012-Present) which is a Canadian Corporation established in 2012, offering swimming pool and spa solutions that integrate new technologies to improve water quality. Formarum has also partnered with Muttoo’s H2O 4 ALL organization to develop and implement sustainable water solutions in developing countries.

Work in H2O 4 ALL

Timothy Muttoo had many overtime hours stored up from his previous jobs at major engineering corporations, ERCO Worldwide and Foradum. He took time off to travel the world, which opened his eyes to its harsh realities. “I had no idea what was going on in the developing world. Not even a clue,” he said. “There are so many people dealing with so many issues. They’re living such a hard life. But many of their problems are solvable. The issues around clean water are solvable.” He was inspired to open up his own non-profit organization and marry his love of technology with his utmost desire to help others around him. Muttoo is responsible for the day-to-day operations of H2O 4 ALL in order to achieve the goals and further the mission of the organization in developing sustainable water solutions for impoverished communities as well as fostering, facilitating and supporting H2O 4 All’s extensive volunteer team in North America. He brings many years of experience in research, development, and implementation of water technology for the North American market, and has extensive experience in overseas work through various mission agencies. As co-founder of H2O 4 ALL, Tim has found a way to use his passions and abilities to help othersby combining his engineering expertise and humanitarian work experience. Since its inception, H2O 4 ALL has led projects in 10 different countries around the world— all with the mandate of working with local partners on the ground. Timothy Muttoo has executed various projects in Ghana, Uganda, Dominican Republic, Zambia, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Haiti and Colombia since 2008. The projects involve water harvesting systems, water purification systems, deep well drilling, and rainwater collection and filtration systems to ultimately bring clean and safe drinking water to impoverished communities in the countries listed above. In addition to the outstanding work completed in efforts to provide clean and safe drinking water to various communities, Muttoo has been directly involved with child soldiers that have experienced horrors almost beyond comprehension. H2O 4 All succeeded in raising $20,000 to pay for the establishment of a water system, which provided the Gulu District of Northern Uganda with 10,000 Litres of clean drinking water every day. The Gulu District of northern Uganda is home to thousands of former child soldiers who were abducted from their homes and forced to fight and kill for a rebel army in what has become Africa’s longest-running armed conflict. All of these children in the village were orphans and in some cases were made orphans because the rebels forced the children to kill their own parents.

Muttoo also partnered with Save The Mothers, an international charitable organization equipping African leaders to save lives of women and babies, and United Nations University in Uganda to successfully drill a borehole well for the Kawolo General Hospital serving Lugazi’s 1.2 million inhabitants. This particular borehole well was an expansion of a rainwater filtration system that H2O 4 ALL installed in 2012 for the hospital’s maternity ward, which was the hospital’s first-ever access to safe water. As an outcome of this project, the infection rates at the hospital plummeted to almost zero percent.

Master’s of Public Health at Waterloo University

As part of his graduate research studies, Timothy Muttoo partnered with the non-profit organization FILTERPURE, Inc., and redesigned the composition of their original product, the clay water filter, in order to reduce production costs and make the filters more affordable for households in the Dominican Republic. “So many well-intentioned projects fail in developing countries because they aren’t sustainable or affordable.” said Muttoo. The redesigned filters, composed of locally sourced clay, sawdust, and particles of silver, allowed 99.99 percent of all water contaminants to be removed. The innovative bowl-shaped filters work by distilling dirty water through a porous clay membrane and into a clean receptacle bucket. The water is brought to safe drinking quality standards and easily accessed from a spigot by anyone in the household. This simple application of technology combined with engineering expertise is transforming thousand of lives in the Dominican Republic. “Without a safe, accessible water source, communities get trapped in a vicious cycle: poverty contributes to access problems; access problems perpetuate poverty, the effects of unsafe water and poor sanitation are devastating, but it is a completely solvable problem.” Said Muttoo  In wake of the earthquake in 2010 in Haiti, H2O 4 ALL partnered with FILTERPURE, Inc. and successfully distributed 2000 clay pot filters which helped 80,0000 people along with another 2000 filters distributed across the Dominican Republic in 2012, helping 2000 families.

Awards and Recognition

In 2015, Timothy Muttoo was the recipient of the Employer Mentorship Award from Ryerson University for the outstanding mentorship and supervision of young professional student leaders, along with receiving the Inaugural Mentorship Award in November 2013 for similar work in mentorship. In 2014, he received a Grand Challenges Stars in Global Health Award for the project entitled Synergy for Water Now. The Synergy for Water Now project involved improving the efficacy of the copper and silver particles in the manufacturing of ceramic clay pot filters, and to optimize the manufacturing by establishing protocols on how to manufacture and distribute the filters effectively across the Dominican Republic. Four months later in September 2014, he was the recipient of a second Grand Challenges in Global Health Award for the Safe Water Flow project.