The 140,000 small public water systems across the U.S. face major challenges in maintaining or gaining access to safe drinking water. These include escalating construction costs, limited access to federal funding, diseconomies of scale, and turbid source waters due to more frequent storms. Exacerbating these hurdles is the lack of affordable drinking water treatment options. Small public water systems need access to technology that makes it easier and less expensive to treat water, financing that eases the burden of capital costs, and capacity-building to ensure reliable delivery of safe drinking water. VersaWater - a collaboration of researchers and practioners - offers a community-centered approach for water treatment that will increase the number of Americans with access to safe clean drinking water. Specifically, VersaWater offers a community-centered approach for the implementation of reliable and safe water treatment. These systems are electricity-free prefabricated water treatment plants (WTPs), designed to reliably treat turbid waters at a lower cost using gravity power alone. These systems have elegantly simple flow control, chemical dosing, self-cleaning features and easy to replace parts. VersaWater's implementation process includes support for the community in accessing federal funds, regulatory compliance, and hands-on learning for system's operators and managers. VersaWater does the behind-the-scenes work of converging the right partners to accompany small com