Water and sanitation
solutions with ARM
Inspiring digital innovations that provide access to clean water
The big picture
Access to clean water is a basic human right.
Yet over 2 billion people worldwide lack access to clean drinking water and billions more suffer from poor sanitation.
What are Unicef and Arm doing to tackle this? In September 2018, the Global Grand Challenges Explorations were launched to urge innovators to discover and develop meaningful digital solutions to improve access to safe, clean water and sanitation in urban areas. Keep scrolling to find out more.
4.5 billion
people lack access to sanitation.
1 billion
people worldwide defecate in the open.
3 billion
people use toilets where the waste is not safely managed.
The Grantees
Scroll down to find out more about some of the grantees
H2GO
In Bangalore and Mexico City, 200 million people have no water pipes. They need to wait all day for trucked water.
H2Go is a mobile-based solution that will improve trucked water systems for the poorest and most under-served people in cities around the world.
Think Uber for water.
Click here to find out more: https://innovationsforwash.com/umass-h2go
H2O3
The team is developing a solar-powered water ozonation system to sustainably disinfect water to make it safe for drinking in households and communities in Kenya.
Typically ozone treatments require a lot of electricity, however through H203 the grantees have developed a breakthrough technology that greatly reduced electricity needs.
Click here to find out more: https://innovationsforwash.com/solar-powered-water-ozonation
Fresh Life Initiative
Lack of safe sanitation is a major problem and underlying cause of child mortality in many developing countries. In Kenya, the majority of residents use pit latrines.
In Nairobi, Kenya’s capital, 60% of the population is crammed into a mere 5% of the city’s residential area.
In these areas, the Fresh Life Initiative has installed more than 2,600 toilets, daily serving over 100,000 residents with safe sanitation.
Through developing a digital customer support system, Fresh Life Initiative aim to improve the quality of sanitation services and streamline waste collection efforts.
Click here to find out more: https://innovationsforwash.com/fresh-life-initiative
We would really love to see a world where everyone has access to a toilet, and doesn’t have to go out of their way or have to risk their lives just to access a toilet. So we are really working towards access, at the same time improving the health of the environment and the health of the community that we serve.
