Kenya, Africa Back in action!

As part of the innovation trajectory under the SBIR programme of RVO, Q-Point and its partners Plotus Technology, House of Maji and OffGridBox are designing a mobile water filtration tuk-tuk system, intended to provide drinking water in Kenya’s remote communities.

Our current testing grounds are on the shores of Lake Turkana (Marsabit County), but the system can be deployed anywhere where the need for clean and safe drinking water is high.

In the coming months, we will not only be testing the system itself, but we will also be training and working with community members to ensure they feel well equipped to become the operators of their very own system. A community-based water committee is being set up to provide the link between the operators and the community, and to oversee the system management. The goal for the community is to generate enough revenue from the water sales to maintain the system themselves, making it an enduring, self-sustaining solution in remote areas.

Surely, many lessons to be learned will arise, but we believe finding creative and context-fitting solutions is possible, as long as we do it together.