English - The Mekong Project

We are an award-winning, water purifying project in Vietnam.

Our technology is transformative, helping over 600,000 households or more than 2.7 million people along the Mekong River Delta access clean drinking water. We generate over 1 million carbon credits a year by significantly reducing greenhouse gas emissions and regional deforestation. Over the course of its lifetime, the project will save over 11 million tonnes of CO2, empowering local communities by improving public health, creating job opportunities and reducing energy costs.

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1 million

carbon offset credits generated every year

11,000,000 tonnes

COe2 emissions avoided over 10 years

600,000

water purifiers distributed to local communities

Our vision for Vietnam

We are offering a carbon neutral solution with considerable environmental and public health benefits. The project will deliver a long term, secure and simple contribution to sustainable development in Vietnam enabled and supported through carbon finance. With the potential to avoid over half a million CO2 emissions over its lifetime, it will generate over 1 million carbon credits every year. By providing an alternative to firewood, the project will also help maintain existing forests and protect local ecosystems and wild habitats.

How does it work?

Our ISO-certified purifiers are a low-cost, long-term solution to unclean drinking water. Preventable illnesses from contaminated water are a leading cause of death for children under five in this region. The purifiers use ceramic filters to create clean water that doesn’t have to be boiled, removing 99.999% of bacteria. They can filter between 2-3 litres of water an hour and have a life span of 10 years. Our technology provides an affordable, carbon neutral solution and supports UN SDG 6, the human right to safe water and sanitation. Made in Hanoi, the water purifiers are hand delivered and installed in each household by the Vietnam’s Women’s Union.

inside a home on the mekong river, with a ISO-certified purifier

Icons for the 7 UN SDG goals: 1 No Poverty, 3 Good health and wellbeing, 5 Gender equality, 6 Clean water and sanitation, 8 Decent work and economic growth, 13 Climate action and 15 Life on land.

Our commitment to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDGs)

With important contributions to the environment and public health, the project will contribute to the achievement of 7 Sustainable Development Goals of the United Nations. These include, UN SDG 1 No Poverty, UN SDG 3 Good health and wellbeing, UN SDG 5 Gender equality, UN SDG 6 Clean water and sanitation, UN SDG 8 Decent work and economic growth, UN SDG 13 Climate action and UN SDG 15 Life on land.

How we support local communities

We distribute our purifiers free-of-charge to over 600,000 households in communities along the Mekong River Delta. The communities we serve typically collect water from rivers, open wells or rain and then boil it by burning collected firewood.

In rural Vietnam overall, around 71% of households generate drinking water through boiling, often over inefficient cookstoves in poorly ventilated condition. This is expensive, produces significant quantities of greenhouse gas and increases risk of respiratory and cardiovascular diseases.

By eliminating the need to collect firewood and boil water, our project decreases carbon emissions, household air pollution and deforestation in the region. This will improve overall public health and alleviate the work burden of women and children who collect the firewood to burn.

Our project also has the potential to create jobs in the areas we distribute in and support communities through a locally-conceived value chain. This includes opportunities for distributors and installers, as well as through long-term carbon monitoring of the project.