Mohannad Hesham

Work

Things he has built, the places they run, and the evidence behind them.

Every item below carries its real stage, from live and in daily use down to built but never deployed. A prototype described as a product is the fastest way to lose a reader who knows the difference.

Built

Software.

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  • Dr. Water OS operations dashboardIn pilot

    Dr. Water OS

    Operations software for water treatment plants, with an assistant that answers troubleshooting questions from the plant’s own manuals. Running with two paying companies.

    Mohandes AI
  • Life From Water HR systemLive, in daily use

    Life From Water HR system

    Attendance taken on site with a location check, flowing through to payroll and finance approvals. Built for his own organisation, which is the honest test of whether it works.

    Life From Water
  • WaterEye monitoring interfaceField pilot

    WaterEye

    Reads analogue pressure and flow gauges from a photograph, so a field operator with a phone can log a reading without a smart meter. Running in one village since June 2026. Accuracy has not been measured yet.

    Life From Water
  • The agriculture assistant answering a farmer on WhatsAppLive

    Garre Agriculture Assistant

    A farmer sends a photo of an affected crop over WhatsApp and gets a diagnosis and treatment steps back in Garre, on a phone they already own. Serving a village of around five thousand people.

    Life From Water
  • Hadeer answering a question in Egyptian ArabicLive

    Hadeer

    An Egyptian Arabic voice and chat agent answering questions from donors and the public at any hour, by voice or text, so a small team is not the bottleneck on repeat questions.

    Life From Water
  • Anchor Learning Hub interfaceLive

    Anchor Learning Hub

    A bilingual training platform organisations can run under their own name, with a coach that helps learners between sessions.

    Impact Anchor
  • The Prompt Lab refinerLive

    The Prompt Lab

    An interactive prompt-engineering trainer with a live refiner, scored critiques and quizzes. It teaches the fundamentals covered in the corporate programmes.

    Mohandes AI
  • GrantsAI grant analysisPre-launch

    GrantsAI

    Reads a funding call, scores it against what an organisation actually does and is eligible for, and drafts a first response. Built because grant applications were consuming weeks of his own team’s year.

    Personal product
  • ESP Learning HubLive

    ESP Learning Hub

    A bilingual platform for J-PAL MENA’s Evidence in Social Programs executive training: case studies, group workspaces and an AI learning coach.

    With J-PAL MENA
  • Policy Practice LabLive

    Policy Practice Lab

    An internal platform for J-PAL MENA’s policy team. Monthly quests, badges and a prompt bank turn evidence-to-practice habits into a six-month rhythm.

    With J-PAL MENA
  • The AI governance curriculumBuilt, not public

    AI governance curriculum

    A free bilingual course on governing AI use inside an organisation. Complete and never deployed. It is listed because it exists, not because you can take it.

    Impact Anchor
  • Good Life CompanionLive

    Good Life Companion

    A bilingual wellbeing app built around Islam El-Saadany’s curriculum. The content is his; the build is Mohannad’s.

    Built for a partner

Also running internally: Ameen, a chat-driven finance desk with an append-only ledger. FounderFocus OS is a prototype and not shown.

The field

Life From Water, since 2011.

Clean water, agriculture and climate resilience across Egypt, Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania. Registered in 2014, twenty staff, a board of five.

0peopleReached by the programmes
0interventionsAcross 259 villages in 8 governorates
0stationsTreatment stations built, plus 30 wells and 19 river-bank filtration wells
0connectionsHousehold water connections, and 28.6 km of mains
  • Village treatment unit, filtration and storage
    Village treatment unit, filtration and storage
  • Reverse osmosis skid with flow and pressure gauges
    Reverse osmosis skid with flow and pressure gauges
  • Solar array frame for a village station
    Solar array frame for a village station

Also running: WaterWell, modular treatment units manufactured in Egypt and exported to Kenya between 2018 and 2024.

Research

Trials and evaluations.

Life From Water has been the implementing partner on randomised trials run by universities and research centres, which means the evidence about the work was produced by people with no stake in it looking good.

  • 2022 – 24Household water treatment, randomised controlled trialBrown University, J-PAL, Sawiris Foundation Implementing partner
  • 2023 – 25Climate adaptation in agriculture, randomised controlled trial with 1,500 wheat and maize farmersJ-PAL, Ministry of Agriculture, CERDI Implementing partner
  • 2025 – 26Health effects of safe water, impact evaluationStanford University In progress
  • Brown University
  • J-PAL
  • Sawiris Foundation
  • Ministry of Agriculture
  • CARE Egypt Foundation
  • PepsiCo Foundation
  • World Bank

Research partners, institutional collaborators and funders of the field programmes.

Writing

Published.

  • 2024Elevating Evidence on the Climate–Poverty NexusColumbia University SIPA & Sawiris Foundation Contributing expert
  • 2023Can Atmospheric Water Generators Resolve Egypt’s Water Crisis?EcoMENA Co-author
  • 202320 for 20: Life From Water’s evidence-based journey in EgyptJ-PAL MENA Author
  • UndatedWater is Life: interventions to support healthy water practicesSawiris Foundation Co-author