According to the World Health Organisation (WHO) Water is essential for life. The amount of fresh water on earth is limited, and its quantity is under constant pressure. Preserving the quality of freshwater is important for the drinking-water supply, food production, and recreational water use. Water is critical to life, but it is also a limited resource and several interrelated factors are decreasing its availability. South Saharan Social Development Organization embarked on The Water of Life (WOL) project due to the integral role water access, plays in several human development spheres including education, nutrition, food security, housing and urban planning, good health, and women’s empowerment. The Project provided safe drinking water to over one million inhabitants of local communities within Abia, Rivers, Lagos, Ogun, Niger, Nasarawa, Edo, Benue, Oyo, Delta, Imo, Oyo, Ondo, Enugu, Ekiti, Kwara, and Anambra states, utilizing a methodology that prioritized community ownership in a bid to foster sustainability. The challenges of the project remain the sustainability of the water source and this is further hindered by a poor maintenance and management culture of the host communities. This culture has led neglect of the water sources and their subsequent fall to ruin. To forestall this scenario, the project decided to support the institution of a functional Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) Committee whose deliverable is to ensure that the water infrastructure is continually maintained post-rehabilitation and can serve its function of providing safe, quality water to the inhabitants of the community for a very long time. For the success of the project, SSDO conducted advocacy to gatekeepers and stakeholders in each community. This activity was done to obtain permission for entry and also to identify and select community members to be trained as the WASH committee. Also, five (5) members of each intervention community were selected and trained on best practices to manage the facilities to ensure sustainability. The trained members were inaugurated as the WASH committee members for the facilities. Some training sessions were also conducted where WASHCOM members and Operation and Maintenance (O&M) team were trained for each of the facilities. This was done to ensure proper operation and maintenance of the facilities and also to ensure the sustainability of the project.