Providing Safe Water for 25,000 Villagers in India

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Providing Safe Water for 25,000 Villagers in India

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Summary

This program will deliver safe drinking water to rural poor in India, via advanced, sustainable water treatment systems. It will also educate about hygiene and health as a pilot for global replication

How Donors Like You Helped

Thanks to donors like you, a total of $97,018 was raised for this project.

More Information About this Project

Project Needs and Beneficiaries

More than 1 billion people lack access to safe drinking water worldwide. Dirty drinking water causes roughly 200 deaths per hour of children below age 5, and stunts development. Centralized treatment, piped water systems, the routine use of bottled water or fuel to boil drinking water are not affordable for households with average incomes below $1 a day. The rural underserved need a robust, effective, and affordable water purification technology, implemented via a sustainable model.

Activities

Install 10 Community Water Systems in rural Andhra Pradesh with Naandi Foundation. Train village members to operate and maintain the systems, and collect fees (1 cent/gallon) to cover salaries and recover system capital costs over time.

Funding Information

Total Funding Received to Date: $97,018

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 $97,018 . The original project funding goal was $275,000.

Additional Documentation

This project has provided additional documentation in a PDF file (projdoc.pdf).

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Why this Project is Important

Potential Long Term Impact

Waterborne disease incidents are reduced. Women and children are relieved of the burden of fetching water. Jobs and micro-entrepreneurial opportunities are created: system operators, delivery staff, and sanitation trainers hired from the community

Project Message

I am a new person…. This project has changed my whole outlook on life.
- Ch. Venakanna, Community Water System operator

Who is Running This Project

Contact

Katie Schmitz de Fernández
Director of Business and Market Development
9 Orchard Road
Suite 111
Lake Forest, CA 92630
United States
949.916.3212
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