Sustainability Assessment of Rural Water Purification

With 2.1 billion people – mostly in rural areas – lacking safely managed drinking water and reported low rural water supply functionality rates, the Sustainable Development Goals pose a triple challenge:

• to reach unserved mostly rural population groups

• to raise service levels

• to sustain existing and future services

This assessment uses a multi-country case study approach, to identify good practices and challenges, toward the building sector capacity and strengthening sustainable service delivery models for rural areas.

Recognising the limitations of the Demand Responsive Approach, the emergence of various management models, the identified need for ongoing support to rural service providers, and the critical role of enabling institutions and policies beyond the community-level, the added value of this assessment lies in:

• the development of a comprehensive analytical framework that can be used to analyse and operationalise a more sustainable service delivery approach for rural water supply

• the rich set of cases and good practices from the 16 countries informing the global body of "knowledge in implementation"

• and the formulation of recommendations and policy directions to improve the sustainability of services depending on sector development stage.

Policy recommendations are centered around five areas:

• Institutional capacity

• Financing

• Asset management

• Water resources management

• Monitoring and regulatory oversight

Clearwell focuses on the development of comprehensive solutions for different water treatment needs of family households, dairy, mining and beverage industries, tannery industries as well as entire communities. The company has developed three primary product lines

• Home water filter solutions

• Industrial/commercial waste water purification solutions

• Stormwater filter solutions

These three product lines are currently operated either by Clearwell itself or companies under licensees. The clean-tech products of used by Clearwell are patent protected (PCT). Clearwells mission is to create a smarter approach for the delivery of clean water to households and communities that are exposed to dangerous levels of contamination. Clean water changes everything! Currently 1 in 10 people lack access to clean drinking water.

Diseases from contaminated water kill more people than all forms of violence combined.