Safe waterActive
Cleaner, Safer Water in Cambodia
Financed on the Gold Standard marketplace by Nexus for Development, this project is built around Hydrologic, a Cambodian social enterprise making and selling ceramic water purifiers. Untreated water and poor sanitation cause an estimated 10 million cases of diarrhoea and 10,000 deaths each year in Cambodia, mostly among children in rural areas.
OperatorHydrologic Social Enterprise Company Ltd
EcosystemCeramic water filter distribution
StandardGold Standard (GS4GG), Impact Registry
StatusActive
LocationCambodia (rural, national)
Overview
Inside the project
Hydrologic's own reported reach is nearly two million Cambodians, with over 600,000 filters distributed.
47% of Hydrologic's staff, including 60% of managers, are women.
90,000 tCO2e/yr
Emissions saved annually
600,000+
Filters distributed
2,000,000
Cambodians reached
47%
Women's share of staff
Objectives
- Manufacture and distribute ceramic water purifiers across rural Cambodia
- Reduce diarrhoeal disease from untreated water
Approach
- Ceramic gravity filters are manufactured and sold to rural households by a Cambodian social enterprise, financed through Gold Standard carbon credit sales.
Sources
Inspect 1 source
- marketplace.goldstandard.org ↗https://marketplace.goldstandard.org/products/cleaner-safer-water-cambodia
Documented by one public source so far.
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