Lack of access to safe drinking water is a global crisis that has persisted for years and is only increasing in prevalence with population growth, resource depletion, and climate change. We aim to combat water scarcity and provide hope & health to impoverished individuals in the Turkana Basin region of Kenya, Africa through the installation of a solar-powered microgrid that would power Watergen’s atmospheric water generator, so Watergen’s GENius heat-exchange technology can efficiently and economically extract water vapor from the air and condense it into clean drinking water.
Kenya is a developing nation, meaning it encompasses a profusion of communities of low socioeconomic standing. These communities often do not have access to potable water sources and therefore are faced with predispositions for hunger and malnutrition, disease contraction, educational deprivation, gender inequality, sustained indigence, and death.