• Vice President, Save the Water™, Jan Warusavitharana: A Day in the Life Series @globalJanW @SavetheWater

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    NAME:  Jan Warusavitharana CURRENT TITLE:  Executive Vice President at Save the Water™ AREA OF EXPERTISE:  Sedimentary Geology, Management YEARS EXPERIENCE:  Newly appointed – less than 1 year experience EDUCATION: MSc. and BSc. in Geology from Wichita State University, Wichita, Kansas WEBSITE:  www.savethewater.org What’s your job like? I started working for Save the Water™ (STW™) as a volunteer and quickly managed to work my way up to the position of Vice President of the company in order to revamp the project. I find that this is more like a pastime for me than a job, because I am very passionate about the current water issues that are present globally. Coming from South Asia, I know about the daily issues that people face in obtaining water, filtering it to make it drinkable, preventing waterborne diseases, and having water cuts (where the water company stops flowing water in your house for several hours to days

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