Clean Water Provision
spimateAt Zawadi Commuity Programme, we believe water is the most important resource for sustaining ecosystems, which provide life-supporting services for people, animals, and plants.
We are cognizant of reasons why safe and clean water is a vital necessity for communities to thrive
- Communities Need Clean Water for Sustainable Development: The Goal is to ensure that all people have access to a sustainable clean water supply and adequate water sanitation.
- Communities Need Clean Water for Socioeconomic Development: Poverty and lack of clean water go hand-in-hand, and a key component to eliminating poverty is having access to safe water. When water supplies are improved and sustainable, it significantly enhances a community’s economic growth and reduces poverty. Women and children who often spend up to six hours every day collecting water. Because so much time is devoted to that task, it inhibits women from working to generate a livelihood, and it dramatically reduces children’s time for education.
- Communities Need Clean Water for Energy and Food Production: When communities don’t have access to clean water for energy and food production, they resort to irrigating crops with untreated wastewater, which is polluted with sewage that contains harmful toxins such as diarrhea-causing bacteria and other pathogens leading to water-borne diseases.
- Communities Need Clean Water for Health and Survival: With no access to clean waterand left with no other option but to wash with and drink contaminated water directly from swamps. Unsafe water causes water-borne illnesses such as Escherichia coli-induced diarrhea, cholera, typhoid fever, giardia, Hepatitis A, and dysentery.
- Communities Need Clean Water for Healthy Ecosystems
One of core mission at Zawadi Community Programme is to alleviate and end the water crisis. We endeavor to build holistic clean water solutions for identified at-risk communities around the counties in Kenya, empowering people not just to survive, but to thrive.
