Water & Sanitation
One in nine people lack access to clean drinking water, and over 2.5 million people live without adequate sanitation facilities. Point-of-use water and sanitation technologies reduce the number of deaths caused by waterborne disease, while also freeing women and girls from the work required to transport and store water, allowing them more time to focus on education and income-generating activities.
Basic Water Needs
The Tulip Table Top is a two bucket water filter and water storage facility in one. The top bucket is filled with raw water, which is filtered through the Tulip candle filter into the lower bucket. The water in the lower bucket is safe for ...
Mr. Tim Straatmans
Overview
The need for clean water is fast becoming one of the world’s biggest issues. That coupled with the fact that ALL industry creates a waste stream, and many of these streams are left to sit in ever increasing ponds, dams and ...
Aqua-Aero WaterSystems BV
The UV WaterBox is a self contained water purification system that can purify up to 5,000 liters of water a day. Water is poured into the top of the WaterBox where it moves past an ultraviolet light which kills microorganisms. The water passes ...
Practical Action
A Urine Diversion Latrine (UDL) is a single pit with a built-in system that separates feces, urine, and cleaning water. Urine diversion increases the life of the pit and the urine collected can be used as a plant nutrient. A UDL requires little ...
Truth x Vision
The Village Drill is a low-tech, high-impact manual drill that can reach water 280 feet underground. Village Drill projects can be implemented by employing a team of five local entrepreneurs who source villages, schools and other community ...
Helioz GmbH
As of 2013, more than 780 million people lack access to safe and clean drinking water. Many of them are children and women living in rural areas of developing countries throughout sub-Saharan Africa, Asia or Latin America. Contaminated water ...
Integrated Solar Cooking
WAPI stands for Water Purification Indicator. WAPIs are small, handmade devices that tell you when water has reached 146 degrees F, the minimum temperature required for pasteurization. Once pasteurized, water is microbe-free and safe to drink ...
WATALUX SA
The WATA technology, developed by Antenna, uses a simple, manageable process of electrolysis to convert a measure of salt and water into into active chlorine with a concentration of 6g/L. The resulting solution can be used to treat drinking ...
WATERisLIFE
The WATERisLIFE Straw is a small, portable filtration device that provides pure, clean drinking water whenever it is immersed into a water source (just like a normal straw).
When used, the WATERisLIFE Straw filters out waterborne diseases ...
EOS International
EOS International’s water purification technology is a low-cost, low-maintenance solution that attaches to any rural community’s water tank and inactivates pathogens in water systems by releasing a controlled dosage of chlorine. One system can ...
Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB)
Water Quality Field Test Kits enable cost-effective and immediate assessment of contaminates levels in water. The main objectives of the WTK are to create mass awareness among students, NGOs and the public and to provide a low-cost water ...
WaterAid
The Ecosan Latrine features a built-in system ensuring separate storage of feces, urine and cleaning water. This technology includes two separate chambers for urine and feces, allowing them to compost into plant nutrients and fertilizer ...
Well WaterBoy Products
The capacity, depth and ease of operation of conventional manual lift pumps have improved little since introduced. Fetching water in developing countries is very time-consuming, especially if much water is needed. Using conventional pumps, an ...
Augustin Produktentwicklung
The WATERCONE is a solar powered water desalinator that generates fresh water from salty or brackish water. It is easy to use, lightweight and mobile. The technology is simple in design and use and is described by simple pictograms. With up to ...
Wecyclers
Wecyclers solves the urban waste challenge for households and recyclers. Wecyclers uses a fleet of low-cost cargo bicycles to offer convenient household recycling service in densely populated low-income neighborhoods. We motivate families to ...
Wello Water
Wello Water has developed a wide range of concepts and designs in collaboration with the WaterWheel’s intended users, and identified the features that were most important to them. The resulting prototype is the WaterWheel 2.0.
Women spend ...
OHorizons
The Wood Mold is a mold used to make concrete BioSand filters and is a low-cost alternative to traditional steel molds. Each Wood Mold can produce 50-60 filters depending on the type of wood used and assuming proper care and maintenance. Other ...
Zimba
Adding chlorine (tablets/drops) to drinking water in the right proportion eliminates the harmful disease causing pathogens. However adding the right quantity of chlorine to flowing water is a challenge when the flow rate is inconsistent or ...
mWater
WASH (water sanitation and hygiene) represents a cornerstone of health and wellbeing for communities around the world. Waterborne disease is the second leading cause of death for children aged 0-5 and a leading indicator of the first leading ...
proH2O - EWYConsulting
ProH2O is an individual water filter made to eliminate arsenic and heavy metals from drinking water. ProH2O uses a scaled-down technique that is usually used for large water treatment plants. The system uses two 10 inch filters and consists of ...