Clean water for Madagascar
Only five percent of the population in rural Madagascar have access to drinking water - the others get their water from open, hand-dug, and primarily shallow wells. This water is often contaminated and diarrhea becomes a deadly disease, also responsible for the high infant mortality rate. Boiling the water helps against this. Most people here can only do this on an open fire. For this climate project, a simple and inexpensive water supply with solar pumps was set up. Water from real and deep-drilled wells is pumped into high-water reservoirs. Public wells, sanitary facilities, and the fields' irrigation are fed from this water. Already 5 villages with 6,500 inhabitants are connected to this water supply. In this way, the project saves the CO2 emissions that inevitably occur during boiling. Above all, however, it prevents diseases that have long been conquered elsewhere in the world - and it enables farmers to cultivate their fields, feed their livestock, and feed themselves and their families.
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The project contributes to the the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals
According to UNICEF, 2.2 billion people worldwide lack reliable access to safe and clean drinking water – 26% of the global population. Women and girls often must travel long distances to collect water from the nearest water point. To make the water safe for use, it is typically boiled over open fires using wood, which generates carbon emissions and harmful smoke. Additionally, the collection of firewood contributes to deforestation.
Climate projects for clean drinking water offer practical solutions. Water can be treated chemically (e.g., with chlorine-based purifiers), mechanically (e.g., with water filters), or through tapping groundwater from wells. For this, wells must be repaired, maintained, or newly installed, as only functioning wells provide clean drinking water. These solutions grant even remote villages access to safe water.
Such projects also reduce carbon emissions by eliminating the need to boil water and help combat deforestation. The clean drinking water projects in ClimatePartner's portfolio are registered with international standards.
The project aims to contribute to these United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
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