Clean Water
- Access to clean drinking water is a basic need and human right
- Contaminated water transmits diseases such as diarrhoea, cholera, dysentery, typhoid or polio
- About 2 billion people worldwide meeting their drinking water from such sources it is estimated that 485.000 deaths are due to diarrhoea
- About 10% of the global burden of disease could be prevented with access of clean water
- Today about 785 million people worldwide continue lack to access of clean drinking water
- Most of them are primarily located at the sub-Saharan region, e.g. rural areas in Tanzania
Clean Energy
- Electrification rates throughout rural areas of Tanzania and sub-Sahara Africa are quite low
- Mini-grids have emerged as a solution for fast, cost effective and efficient electrification in rural areas
- It is estimated that about 86% of the people living in rural areas of sub-Saharan Africa have no access to electricity
- The International Energy Agency (IEA) expects that by 2040 about 140 million people in sub-Saharan Africa will get access to electricity by mini-grids
- Besides improvement of people´s living conditions the availability of electricity is the most important requirement for local development and especially to access to clean drinking water
Our Mission
Providing less expensive and for all people affordable access to clean drinking water and electricity by container based mini-grid technology developed by Fraunhofer HHI and Clausthal University of Technology/Germany
