Clean water for communities.
Today, 1 in 9 people lack access to safe water. Water scarcity and poor water quality negatively impact food security, livelihood choices and educational opportunities for families across the world. Drought afflicts some of the world’s least developed countries, worsening hunger and malnutrition. Women are disproportionately affected, often being responsible for collecting water. It’s also a matter of health; every 90 seconds a child dies from a water-related disease.
What if we can improve health and enable empowerment and education? It’s time to break the cycle for communities by enabling access to affordable and safe water.
Save up to 70%
on water expenses
Stress-free operation &
remote monitoring
Sustainable using
unlimited resources
A reliable & independent water supply
Providing fresh water on any scale.
Small
- Minimum drinking water: 2.000 people
- Basic water needs: 80 people
- 50% cost savings
- 120 tons CO2 savings
- 8ft container
Medium
- Minimum drinking water: 10.000 people
- Basic water needs: 400 people
- 60% cost savings
- 600 tons CO2 savings
- 20ft container
Large
- Minimum drinking water: 50.000 people
- Basic water needs: 2000 people
- 70% cost savings
- 1.200 tons CO2 savings
- 40ft container
75% less energy than traditional desalination.
Solar off-grid desalination.
World’s 1st efficient solar plug & play desalination.
Small community case: Philippines.
Community using plug&play solar desalination.
‘’There are four major issues in the provision of potable drinking water in Southeast Asia: water cost, quality, access, and environmental impact. Working with EWM technology we are able to invest locally into decentralized water production solutions that overcome each of these challenges. Starting in the Philippines, regions where we operate can now enjoy affordable high-quality water that has been produced using a sustainable method, in line with our vision.’’
Medium community case: Madagascar.
Community using plug&play solar desalination.
‘’Our community was faced with a great water problem causing suffering. But thanks to the Elemental Water Source™, our water needs are satisfied with 15,000 liters of drinking water per day. We are delighted with the project and wish other communities can experience the same.’’
Large community case: Senegal.
Community using plug&play solar desalination.
“Hum’AM is an humanitarian association of engineering students. Our purpose is to improve people’s lifespan in underprivileged regions by providing access to drinkable water as well as electricity. The Senegalese community Ourong has a groundwater table is polluted with salted water. We decided to use the location of the village to our advantage by proposing the implementation of a desalination plant. We were searching for a solution that can provide affordable fresh water by using solar energy. Elemental Water Makers succesfully helped us to achieve this goal.
Today more than 600 villagers benefit from this project. The engineers who made their way on-site to the community during COVID-19, Reinoud & Nathan, were a competent and supportive team. It was a real pleasure to work with them.
Thank you Elemental Water Makers!”
Financial case: Solar desalination.
A community with access to safe and affordable water.
The problem: expensive unsafe water
The community relies on water that is trucked in on a daily basis. The results are a questionable quality upon delivery and a high water tariff of 6 $/m³. Lacking an alternative, the people are forced to spend a majority of their limited income on water, without the assurance of good quality and sufficient availability.
The solution: solar energy desalination
This changes completely when a decentralized solution by Elemental Water Makers is put in place: The Elemental Water Source™, which can be operated to produce 5 m³/day off-grid using only solar energy. There is also the option to produce 11 m³/day in hybrid mode making use of grid or generator power during the night. The Elemental Water Source™ allows the people to enjoy savings of 75% on water expenses and and total savings of over $300.000. The solution’s payback depends on several factors, but, on average, it is around 2.5 years.
The benefits: savings & development
The community now has high-quality potable water on-site, without the dependency of water trucking and associated carbon emissions, saving 10 tons of CO2 per year. The Source™ leads to empowerment, jobs and possibilities for education.
Water expenses
Water tariff in $/m3
Over $300.000 in total savings.
Together
Turn-key
Foundation
How we work for communities.
Complete turn-key installation or working together with NGO’s or your preferred civil works partners and suppliers. As a global yet flexible organisation, we meander our ways to find the optimum form of collaboration and financing. We also work together with the Elemental Water Foundation to help the people who need it most get access to safe and affordable water.
Elemental Water Kiosk.
A vision of development by entrepreneurship.
More than 70% of the people without access to safe water live in remote areas. Without access to affordable & clean drinking water, development remains limited. Our Elemental Water Source™ can be used as a water kiosk, providing drinking water to those who need it the most. To do so, we need to bring together the technology, the local entrepreneur who operates the project and the financing.
These water kiosks can enable NGOs and investors to realize impact, while providing a ROI. As an example, please find below the economics for a loan to the local entrepreneur combined with a profit sharing model. This can be done on a larger scale by clusterng dozens of projects per region by working together with governments, grants and developent organisations. Feel invited to contact us to develop such a project together.
