Clean drinking water helps people and the environmentThis project provides access to clean drinking water to about 102,000 additional residents in Tete, Sofala and Manica provinces in central Mozambique through the use of borehole technologies. The provision of clean water replaces the need for water treatment/purification at open fireplaces in households. This, in turn, reduces carbon dioxide emissions generated by the combustion mostly of wood. In addition, diseases caused by air pollution at open fireplaces, to which women and children in particular are often exposed, are avoided.
Together with local NGOs, the project identifies communities in need of new boreholes or maintenance and ensures the water quality of the extracted water. The project is cerified by the Gold Standard, which measures, in addition to the calculated carbon credits, the local social, environmental and economic impacts of the project.