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Providing Free, Clean Water To Kenya's People
It's hard for most of us to imagine living somewhere that required us to boil water before using it. To make matter worse, in order to heat the water, you would have to go out and find firewood to do so. It's a task that women and girls in Kenya are faced with every day, even to the point where the girls are forced to abandon their educations in order to keep up with the demand for wood. Their frequent burning of wood in their homes inhibits proper breathing since the air is so smoky. People in Kenya have faced this problem for decades, but it has largely gone unnoticed.
The Vestergaard Frandsen company is working to supply the people of Kenya with free water filters and teach them how to use it. The company has provided about one million water filters as part of its Carbon for Water campaign. The goal of the company, which is funded entirely through the carbon market, is to provide fresh water for the people of Kenya to drink for the next ten years. Additionally, it will reduce carbon emissions by millions of tons each year.
Diarrhea is the leading cause of death in Kenya for children under the age of five. This can most often be linked to contaminated drinking water. In addition, throughout the entire population of the country, repiratory infections rank number 1 as the cause of death. Many people have to use their wood stoves to purify water before using it, but it also causes air pollution which in turn leads to lung problems.
Not only has the Vestergaard company paid for the cost of all of the water filters, but they also employ thousands of people to go door-to-door installing the filters as well as showing people how to use them properly. Statistics are gathered by auditors every six months in order to keep track of how much water has been used in each household as well as how much less firewood has been burned. The company can sell the ensuing certificates for carbon credits after the auditors verify the statistics. To get their investment back, the company can then turn around and sell the carbon credits to other companies. This whole process takes no longer than two years to complete.
Everyone wins when it comes to the Carbon for Water campaign. It would be wonderful if, in the future, the program could be expanded to other countries that are in need of fresh, clean drinking water. Doc No.lkhjsdklsd-ssj
Kristie Brown writes on a variety of topics from health to technology. Check out her websites on Emergency water filter and Water purification system
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