Water and Sanitation Roundup!

By Casey Callais -- 2012 was a big year for blueEnergy's Water and Sanitation, Hygiene team (WASH), but how big was it? And what's in store for 2013? Here is a quick look at the projects and numbers. But first, some background information.

The Water Situation in Bluefields, Nicaragua:

95% of the population lacks clean drinking water

90% of water sources are hand-dug wells

90% of drinking water sources are contaminated with fecal matter

100% of the population lacks a sanitary sewage system


blueEnergy Donors and Accomplishments:

Good Energies helped provide 51 biosand water filters built and installed

Meal a Day #1 helped provide 10 biosand water filters built and installed

See Your Impact helped provide 10 biosand water filters built and installed

An anonymous corporate donor helped provide 100 biosand water filters built and installed

Meal a Day #2 helped provide an efficiency study of the biosand filters

Ile de France / La Guilde helped provide 100 biosand water filters (built and installed) and 30 baptist wells

Meal a Day #3 helped provide 15 baptist wells


Current blueEnergy Projects:
 
Ensemble Foundation is helping to provide 38 biosand water filters and 10 wells

FHI / USAID is helping to provide 300 biosand water filters

West Foundation and Meal a Day #4 is helping to provide a study on latrines

CDC Developpement Solidaire is helping to provide 64 biosand water filters and 16 wells

Agence de l'eau Artois Picardie is helping to provide 72 biosand water filters and 24 wells

Adour Garonne is helping to provide 55 biosand water filters, 20 baptist wells and 22 latrines

Foro de Agua is helping to provide 6 wells and 35 latrines

Michelham Foundation is helping to provide 44 biosand water filters

Foundation Artelia is sending an expert to work with our WASH team for three months


Add this all up and check out the amazing impact! 

This work equals:
2,129 people with access to filtered water
1,004 people with access to clean wells
468 women and 270 men who have participated in blueEnergy's water and sanitation classes.



It is going to be a busy year for blueEnergy and we are excited to be ramping up our capapcity by bringing on new people and investing in new equipment. You can bet that in 2013 we will double out impact numbers and then some!