SDGS
Sustainable Development Goals
"Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all."
Access to safe water, sanitation and hygiene is the most basic human need for health and well-being. Billions of people will lack access to these basic services in 2030 unless progress quadruples. Demand for water is rising owing to rapid population growth, urbanization and increasing water needs from agriculture, industry, and energy sectors.
To reach universal access to drinking water, sanitation and hygiene by 2030, the current rates of progress would need to increase fourfold. Achieving these targets would save 829,000 people annually, who die from diseases directly attributable to unsafe water, inadequate sanitation and poor hygiene practices.
Maji Popote contributes towards this goal by supplying water to over 3500 people in different parts of Kenya daily.
The global temperature has already risen 1.1ºC above the pre-industrial level, with glaciers melting and the sea level rising. Extreme weather events are happening more frequently. By 2030, an estimated 700 million people will be at risk of displacement by drought alone. Taking urgent action to combat climate change and its devastating impacts is therefore an imperative to save lives and livelihood, and key to making the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development – the blueprint for a better future – a reality
For every 5 litres of potable water we supply, we help save about 1 kilogram of fire wood that would have been used by families to boil drinking water. Daily we save 72 tonnes of firewood contributing to the global action against climate change.