Opened in September 2006, ASDSWs mission, "Communities United Through Water" began a national initiative to promote peace and equality by improving community health through safe water access for all. ASDSW establishes Water PODS (People Offering Deliverable Services), which are independent local civil-run water organizations that act as a hub of expertise in water resources as well as a production facility offering simple, affordable water treatment and water supply technologies. 

The birth of this mission goes back nearly five years when Filipina-American Gemma Bulos, a former musician and pre-school teacher who was meant to be in the World Trade Center on the morning of 9/11, responded to the tragedy by devoting her life to a cause she believed would promote peace and equality among all people; access to safewater. Based on the concept that it takes a single drop of water to start a wave, she founded A Single Drop (USA) and she traveled around the world using her music to inspire people to mobilize and take action to address the freshwater crisis. She built the unprecedented Million Voice Choir for Peace through Clean Water which won her the Queen Latifah Cover Girl CG Vibes Award for Women Changing the World Through Music. She learned simple ways to encourage water stewardship from experts and citizens, and in 2005 was trained as a BioSand Filter (BSF) technician.

She took her Award money and brought this technology to the Philippines in 2006 where she met Kevin Lee (Kiwi) a Peace Corp Water/Sanitation Volunteer who had spent 2 1/2 years in the country developing and implementing water projects and asked his assistance. In June 2006, after training over ninety people representing Local Government Units (LGUs), non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and international aid agencies, the demand was so great, they both decided to make a commitment to share the model countrywide. ASDSW was established in Sept 2006 as an incubator to develop their innovative model, the Water PODS Sustainability Program.  

In June 2008, Gemma and Kiwi won the Echoing Green "Best Ermerging Social Entrepreneurs of 2007" for their innovative Water PODS Community Water Organization Sustainability Model. ASDSW believes that in order to effectively create self-reliant PODS, we must be self-reliant ourselves. ASDSWs goal is to become financially sustained through it's consultation and training service fees, making it a humanitarian aid organization that is not reliant on charitable donations to cover operations. By 2011, ASDSW will be handed over to our staff of Philippine Nationals.