The crisis

785 million people lack access to basic dinking-water, including 144 million people who are dependent on surface water.[1]
Globally, at least 2 billion people use a drinking water source contaminated with faeces.[1]
Contaminated water can transmit diseases such as diarrhoea, cholera, dysentery, typhoid, and polio. Contaminated drinking water is estimated to cause 485 000 diarrhoea deaths each year.[1]
By 2025, half of the world’s population will be living in water-stressed areas.[1]

A child dies every 90 seconds from a water-related disease.[1]
Water-related diseases affect more than 1.5 billion people every year.[2]
In least developed countries, 22% of health care facilities have no water service, 21% no sanitation service and 22% no waste management service.[2]
Globally, 1/3 of all schools’s lack access to safe water and adequate sanitation.[2]

Water, sanitation and hygiene related disease kill nearly 1 million people annually.[2]
The water crisis is the number one global risk based on impact to society (as a measure of devastation), as announced by the World Economic Forum in January 2018.[3]
159 million people still use surface water, and two thirds live in sub-Saharan Africa.[2]
443 million school days are lost each year due to water related diseases, of which 272 million are lost due to diarrhoea alone.[8]

The economic importance of clean water

$260 billion is lost generally each year due to lack of safe water and sanitation.[4]
Universal access to safe water and sanitation would result in $32 billion in economic benefits each year from reductions in health care costs and increased productivity due to reduced illnesses.[4]

Time spent gathering water around the world translates to $24 billion in lost economic benefits each year.[4]
Annual aid water and sanitation amounts to only as $8 billion–far short of the $1 trillion needed to solve this crisis and maintain it long trims.[4,5]

Access to credit plays a significant role in triggering household sanitation investments, increasing health and providing families the dignity of a toilet.[6]
For every dollar invested in water and sanitation, there is a $4.3 return in the loan of reduced healthcare costs for individuals and society around the world.[7]

Our strategic approach is grouped into the following five areas of priority:

Innovation & Technology
Mapping and monitoring of Nigeria water sources, developing smart hardware, and creation of data management app to store and analyse data to predict the location where water projects will be most impactful and viable.
Construction of Infrastructures
Development of smart water infrastructures with 100% sustainability rating
Water Sales
Generates income to fund the cost of maintaining and sustaining our water infrastructures
Governance & Management
Important local connections
Maintenance & Capacity Building
Strategy for the future