Aqua Clara: water purification in Kenya
Standard: GS Technology: Water Location: Africa
The Aqua Clara water purification project helps people in rural Kenya gain access to safe water by making affordable household water filters that avoid the need to boil water.
Previously, families boiled water to drink over open fires, putting their health at risk by inhaling smoky fumes, while creating more pressure on local forests. This project enables communities to participate in building, selling and servicing the water filters, instead of buying and trading firewood. Over the 10-year crediting period, the project is estimated to reduce 1.3m tonnes of CO2 and will seek to introduce more than 23,000 bio-sand and 4,800 household sand and membrane filters.
Delivering towards the Global Goals
Good health and well-being
Families reduce their exposure to household air pollution.
Quality Education
Children are less likely to miss school due to poor health associated with boiling water over open fires.
Clean water and sanitation
Protects families from waterborne diseases like cholera, typhoid and dysentery.
Decent work and economic growth
Distributing and maintaining the filters and providing sanitation training, has created 48 jobs.
Industry, innovation and infrastructure
Safe water is a vital part of creating clean and healthy living spaces, where communities can live sustainably.
Climate action
By 2022, the project will have saved more than 1.3m tonnes of CO2 emissions.
Life on land
Reduced fuel demand lowers the pressure on vulnerable local forests.