Clean water improving health in KenyaRural areas and urban slums in Kenya lack a clean water network infrastructure and are facing great health risks through unsafe drinking water. Many Kenyians make their water drinkable by boiling it on open fires using wood and charcoal. So, clean drinking water mostly comes at the price of deforestation and high emissions. And still there are people who must drink unsafe water due to lack of time for collecting wood or money to buy charcoal.
With the multi-layer water purifiers provided by this project, households pour untreated water in and after an hour have up to three liters of clean drinking water. This even exceeds the World Health Organization’s recommended amount of 7.5 liters of domestic water consumption per person and day. With the purifiers the project provides an efficient technology that saves about 459,630 tonnes of CO2 emissions per year. In addition, more people have access to safe water and benefit from better health.
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.
