Chlorine Dispensers for Safe Water

Providing safe water with point-of-collection water treatment technology.

Villagers in Kenya use a dispenser to treat their drinking water
The Challenge

Globally, almost 1.9 million children die each year from diarrheal diseases caused by unsafe drinking water, inadequate sanitation facilities and poor hygiene each year.  It is the second largest cause of child mortality, after respiratory infections, accounting for 15 percent of child deaths globally, and 18 percent of child deaths in the poorest countries.  Chronic diarrhea in early childhood contributes to decreased food intake and nutrient absorption, malnutrition, reduced resistance to infection, and impaired physical growth and cognitive development, with long-term consequences for educational attainment and income.

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An Innovative Solution

A new technology, the dispenser, is designed to fill this gap and provide a sponsored water treatment solution for use in poor areas where take-up of water treatment products is low and where the water borne illness burden is severe.

The dispenser system includes a simple, low-cost water treatment technology that has achieved remarkable and sustained use in Kenya. The innovative dispenser is filled with dilute chlorine and placed near a communal water source, allowing individual users to treat their water with the correct dose of chlorine in their jerricans after it has been collected from the source.

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With your generous contribution, a village in Kenya, Haiti, or Ethiopia will gain access to safe water.  This investment will improve the health and cognitive development of children this community, and it will reduce the chance that these children die from preventable waterborne diseases.

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