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Through numa pipelined water networks, Water4ever is making sure that everyone has access to safe water.

Through numa pipelined water networks, Water4ever is making sure that everyone has access to safe water.

Now almost 2.2 billion people don’t have access to water that is managed safely. Even though developing agencies and NGOs around the world have tried to solve this problem by giving away wells, hand pumps, and some training on how to keep them running, this has stopped up to 40% of rural water systems from working at any given time. Water4 businesses use a market-based approach to give customers a steady supply of safe water through the NUMA piped water network. This is done to meet the needs of the local people. This piped, modular water network sends out treated water in different amounts and sizes, depending on what the community needs. The NUMA Nexus is the network’s main system for treating and giving care. The Nexus cleans groundwater with microfiltration, UV disinfection, and chlorine. These systems can be put anywhere in the world because they run on solar power. After being cleaned, water can be pumped to branched kiosks (Nodes) or piped connections in institutions and homes (Nows).

Positive facts about NUMA Water

A single NUMA piped system can serve up to 1,400 people with treated water, free from contamination
Through a combination of chlorine and UV disinfection, the NUMA treatment system can prevent up to 99.99% of waterborne diseases, such as Giardia, Salmonella, and Hepatitis A
A NUMA Nexus using solar power is estimated to produce less than 2% of carbon emissions per year compared to using a generator
A NUMA Nano is estimated to produce 1,063 lbs less CO2 per year by using solar power instead of a generator
NUMA water is 36 times cheaper than local alternatives of similar quality
The NUMA Node has an estimated Internal Rate of Return of 16.25% over 20 years

Video about NUMA Water

https://www.youtube.com/embed/ACHmUlh_Eik

NUMA Water website : https://water4.org/

Arnaud Michel, founder of Keys for Tomorrow
About the curator

Arnaud Michel is the founder and curator of Keys for Tomorrow. In 2014, his master’s thesis on community currencies and sustainable development won the Prix Recherche at Belgium’s Prix de l’Économie Sociale; the research was later published as Ecological Economics (Elsevier, 2015). He curates this directory to the same standard, cross-checking every project against established certification bodies and directories — including B Corp, 1% for the Planet, and Solar Impulse Foundation — alongside direct research into each project’s own record. Connect on LinkedIn.

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