MIGHTY Climate Action Projects - Clean Drinking Water, Kasungu, Malawi

MIGHTY Climate Action Projects - Clean Drinking Water, Kasungu, Malawi

This Micro-Scale Voluntary Project Activity, in Kasungu, Malawi provides safe drinking water to communities reducing the need to boil water as a means of purification through the repair of damaged and the drilling of additional new boreholes in the Traditional Authorities (TA) of Santhe and Kawamba located in Kasungu District. By providing safe water, the project will ensure that households consume less firewood during the process of water purification and as a result there shall be a reduction of greenhouse gas emissions from the combustion process.

How does technology for clean drinking water help fight global warming?

Two billion people in the world have no access to clean drinking water. Many families have to boil their drinking water over an open fire, resulting in CO2 emissions and deforestation. Where water can be cleaned chemically (e.g. with chlorine) or mechanically (with filters), or where groundwater can be provided from wells, these CO2 emissions can be avoided.

Contribution to the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

No Poverty
Time and financial savings in the procurement of fuel, relief for poor households

 

Zero Hunger
Due to the lower need for firewood, there is more time for field work. In addition, less deforestation means healthy soils and thus higher crop yields.


Good Health & Well-Being
Clean water and improved air quality, informing people about health risks

 

Quality Education
Saved time and income can be invested in education.

 


Gender Equality
Women save time fetching and boiling water and live more safely because long distances to remote areas are no longer necessary.


Clean Water and Sanitation
Long-term and free supply of the communities with clean drinking water.

 

Decent Work & Economic Growth
Vocational training and new jobs for the creation and maintenance of the wells

 

Reduced Inequalities
The better water supply in rural areas reduces inequalities in relation to the city.

 

Climate Action
The project saves 10,000 tons of CO2 per year.

 


Life On Land
Less deforestation through less fuelwood consumption, improved soil quality, preservation of biological diversity

 

Partnerships for the Goals
Our long-term support enables projects for sustainable development in the global south.

 

      

Project Standard
Gold Standard VER (GS VER)

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