Innovative 'Safe Wafer Kiosk' Ensures Quality Water for Kenyan Community

摘要

Siemens Water Technologies participates in multi-NGO effort with Australian roots to improve potable water access in remote, underdeveloped areas, including developing nations. For the village of Obambo-Kadenge in Kenya, a reliable source of clean drinking water was non-existent. This rural community of several thousand people relied mostly on runoff water collected in the Gona Dam, a small shallow dam on the floodplain. This water contained turbidity of 400 NTU and was contaminated by human activity and livestock waste, leading to outbreaks of waterborne diseases such as cholera, typhoid and dysentery.