Clean water for MadagascarOnly five percent of the population in rural Madagascar have access to drinking water - the others get their water from open, hand-dug and mostly shallow wells. This water is often contaminated and diarrhoea becomes a deadly disease, which is also responsible for the high infant mortality rate. Boiling the water helps against this. Most people here can only do this on an open fire.
For this offset project, a simple and inexpensive water supply with solar pumps was set up. Water from real and deep drilled wells is pumped into high water reservoirs. Public wells, sanitary facilities and also the irrigation of the fields are fed from this water. 2 villages with 3,891 inhabitants are connected to this water supply.
In this way, the project saves the CO2 emissions that inevitably occur during boiling. Above all, however, it prevents diseases that have long been conquered elsewhere in the world - and it enables farmers to cultivate their fields, feed their livestock and feed themselves and their families.
How does technology for clean drinking water help fight global warming?Two billion people in the world have no access to clean drinking water. Many families have to boil their drinking water over an open fire, resulting in CO
2 emissions and deforestation. Where water can be cleaned chemically (e.g. with chlorine) or mechanically (with filters), or where groundwater can be provided from wells, these CO
2 emissions can be avoided. Clean drinking water projects in the ClimatePartner portfolio are registered with
international standards.
