Provide access to the children, women, and men of Cambodia to safe drinking water through a market-based approach, building capacity for local production and distribution of Ceramic Water Purifiers.
Only 29% of Cambodians currently have access to improved water sources. Lack of access to safe drinking water is one of the main causes of disease in Cambodia. The Ceramic Water Purifier (CWP) Project is a 5-year plan to make clean water available to 75,000 households and to create a sustainable, self-financing industry to continue long-term CWP distribution. The CWP effectively removes bacteriological contamination, through a filtering system, making water safe for human consumption.
Develop production plants; train distributors and retailers; promote CWP to raise awareness and create demand; control quality to assure that CWPs distributed meet quality standards; and transfer ongoing activities to the private sector.
75,000 families will have affordable clean water by 2010, 1,500 households in first year. IDE will facilitate distribution systems; prepare long-term marketing plans; improve production processes; reduce costs; and strengthen distribution networks.
My family members have never had diarrhea because we now use clean drinking water. It improves our lives to have clean drinking water.
- Mr. Huot Sambath, a CWP technology beneficiary
Total Funding Received to Date: $7,248
This project is now in implementation and no longer available for funding. Received funds will be used to accomplish concrete objectives as indicated in the project's "Activities" section. Updates will be posted under the "Project Report" tab as they become available.
Donors' contributions and pledges to this project totaled $7,248 . The original project funding goal was $350,000.
This project has provided additional documentation in a Microsoft Word file (projdoc.doc).
Thanks to 30 donors like you, a total of $7,248 was raised for this project on GlobalGiving. Combined with other sources of funding, this project raised enough money to fund the outlined activities and is no longer accepting donations.
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