Simple and free of charge: drinking water for KenyaThis project supplies families in rural Kenya with clean drinking water. Contaminated water and lack of sanitation in sub-Saharan Africa lead to life-threatening diseases and 315,000 premature deaths per year. This makes the lack of drinking water the second leading cause of death there. To prevent this, most people boil their water with coal or wood on an open fire. This produces smoke, mostly inside closed rooms, which in turn causes dangerous respiratory diseases. The treated water from this project is drinkable for 72 hours, saves the population the money for firewood and the time for the often protracted wood procurement and avoids CO2 and other pollutants.
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.
