A NOTE FROM OUR FOUNDER

Why I started
FIELDWATER.

Andrew Cunningham · Founder

A new chapter, built around making water work.

I spent fifteen years helping build and operate a manufacturing company focused on filtration. It taught me how to solve practical problems, manage operations, and keep systems working when something went wrong.

Eventually, we sold the company I had spent those years helping build. After the sale, I stayed for a year to help with the transition. There was a path toward broader leadership responsibilities, but I chose to take a different direction.

I founded Cunningham Venture Company, a privately held company with a portfolio of consumer brands and technology businesses. Alongside that work, I launched FIELDWATER, putting my experience in manufacturing, filtration, and operations toward restoring community water systems.

I kept coming back to water. When reliable water is part of everyday life, it is easy to take it for granted. When it stops working, the consequences reach into health, school, work, and the time families spend getting through the day.

What drew me in was the practical nature of the work. A failed pump. A damaged pipe. Treatment that no longer works. Missing parts or equipment. Each situation needs to be understood on its own terms, but these are problems that operations, filtration, and hands-on problem-solving can help address.

That became FIELDWATER: understand what has failed, work with the people who depend on the system, and determine what it will take to make it work again. Repair what can be repaired, bring in specialist help where it is needed, and make lasting service part of the repair from the start.

I started FIELDWATER to put my experience in filtration manufacturing and operations to work alongside local water organizations. We’re developing practical projects with partners in the communities they serve, with scope and costs shaped by what the work needs.

I want supporters to be able to see the work clearly: the original problem, the equipment, the costs, the people involved, the challenges, and the results. That includes what still needs attention. Trust should grow from an honest record people can return to.

Leaving after fifteen years gave me the opportunity to choose what to build next. FIELDWATER is one way I am putting that opportunity to work. The ambition is to grow an organization that can help communities restore and maintain safe water well beyond its first initiative.

Andrew Cunningham
Founder, FIELDWATER