Ceramic Water Purifier--Clean Water for Cambodia

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Summary

Provide access to the children, women, and men of Cambodia to safe drinking water through a market-based approach, building capacity for local production and distribution of Ceramic Water Purifiers. progress reportread updates from the field

How Donors Like You Helped

Thanks to donors like you, a total of $7,188 was raised for this project.

Received $7,188 from 25 donations from people like:

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Project Needs and Beneficiaries

Only 29% of Cambodians currently have access to improved water sources. Lack of access to safe drinking water is one of the main causes of disease in Cambodia. The Ceramic Water Purifier (CWP) Project is a 5-year plan to make clean water available to 75,000 households and to create a sustainable, self-financing industry to continue long-term CWP distribution. The CWP effectively removes bacteriological contamination, through a filtering system, making water safe for human consumption.

Activities

Develop production plants; train distributors and retailers; promote CWP to raise awareness and create demand; control quality to assure that CWPs distributed meet quality standards; and transfer ongoing activities to the private sector.

Funding Information

Total Funding Received to Date: $7,188

Funding Information

This project is now in implementation and no longer available for funding. Received funds will be used to accomplish concrete objectives as indicated in the project's "Activities" section. Updates will be posted under the "Progress Report" tab as they become available.

Donors' contributions and pledges to this project totaled $7,188.  The original project funding goal was $350,000.

Additional Documentation

This project has provided additional documentation in a Microsoft Word file (projdoc.doc).

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Why this Project is Important

Potential Long Term Impact

75,000 families will have affordable clean water by 2010, 1,500 households in first year. IDE will facilitate distribution systems; prepare long-term marketing plans; improve production processes; reduce costs; and strengthen distribution networks.

Project Message

My family members have never had diarrhea because we now use clean drinking water. It improves our lives to have clean drinking water.
- Mr. Huot Sambath, a CWP technology beneficiary

Who is Running This Project

Contact

Heidi Wilhelm,
Resource Development Manager
10403 West Colfax, Suite 500
Lakewood, Colorado 80215
United States
303.232.4336 x14
Email:

Project Sponsor

The Tech Museum Awards

Organization

IDE (International Development Enterprises)
10403 West Colfax, Suite 500
Lakewood, CO 80215
United States
303.232.4336
http://www.ideorg.org

Learn more about IDE (International Development Enterprises) and the project team.


IDE (International Development Enterprises)'s Funded Projects on GlobalGiving

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Where this Project is Located

Country

This project is located in Cambodia and can also be found under Health.

For more information about Cambodia, read the Human Development Report on Cambodia or the Wikipedia entry for Cambodia.

When this Project was Updated

Last Updated

This project was last updated on August 13, 2007.

Date Added to GlobalGiving

This project was added to the GlobalGiving project catalog on June 13, 2005.

Latest Update from the Field

Progress with CWP Project

By Zenia Tata - Executive Director-IDE USA, August 13, 2007 05:16 PM

IDE has been promoting the Ceramic Water Purifier (CWP) as an affordable household water filtration option for rural Cambodia since 2001. The benefits in health and economics have been significant through the provision of local production and distribution of the CWP.

Field studies by UNICEF and IDE have shown that the CWP, which costs less than $10, reduces the incidence of diarrhea by 46%, lightens women's workloads by 22 hours per month, and leads to expense savings of $1 to $2 per month.

Since Jan 2006, more than 40,000 households have been reached. IDE continues to facilitate distribution systems; prepare marketing plans; improve production processes; reduce costs; and strengthen distribution networks.

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