Providing Sustainable Solutions for Kenyan Communities

A clean and sustainable water supply is essential for communities.

Health – Diseases such as typhoid, dysentery, amoebae and trachoma are common in rural Kenya and are drastically reduced by the introduction of clean water.

Gender Empowerment – Girls and women are no longer open to human or animal attack as a direct result of having to walk
for up to 12 miles to collect water.

Education - The fact that girls no longer have to travel for hours each way to collect water means that they can now get
an education.

Financial - Communities benefit from clean water as they can sustain their livestock during droughts. By using a sustainable
pump communities can afford to maintain it.

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Environmental – A sustainable pump uses natural
resources such as wind or sun to draw up the water. This has no impact on the environment compared to the emissions produced by a diesel generator.

To get enough water to supply a community all year round you need to drill a borehole and install
a pump to draw the water up. Most boreholes are
equipped with a submersible pump that is powered by a diesel generator at the surface. The
community are then responsible for the huge costs of maintenance and fuel needed to
run the generator even though many rural communities are often hours away from their nearest supply of diesel and mechanics.

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We prefer to use a more sustainable way of drawing the water out of the borehole. So far we have used low maintenance Kijito wind powered pumps that are made in Thika, close to Nairobi, but we look at each project individually to assess the best way of pumping the water sustainably.

By using renewable energy to pump the water we believe that the project will be more
environmentally and socially sustainable.