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Amazi Meza Rwanda Water Treatment Program

Fast Company World-Changing Ideas Award Winner
600K
Students Reached
200K+
Carbon Credits by 2030
13
Peer-Reviewed Publications
Program Overview

Clean Water for Rwanda's Schools

Virridy's Amazi Meza program in Rwanda is deploying water treatment systems at primary and secondary schools for students who currently drink microbially contaminated drinking water. Diarrhea, associated with dirty drinking water, is still the leading cause of illness and death among school-aged children in Rwanda.

Our program will reach about 600,000 students with clean drinking water services over the next several years and is expected to generate over 200,000 carbon credits by 2030.

Pioneering Carbon-Financed Water

The Virridy management team led the development and implementation of the first-ever United Nations Clean Development Mechanism and Gold Standard programs earning carbon credits for water treatment. Through these programs, tens of millions of dollars of private financing were leveraged to deliver household water filters to millions of people in Rwanda and Kenya, with revenue from carbon credits largely re-invested into education, repairs and replacements and resulting in significant health, economic and environmental benefits.

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Research & Publications

Rwanda Evidence Base

1

Lessons from Rwanda on tackling unsafe drinking water and household air pollution

theconversation.com
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2

Effects of adding household water filters to Rwanda's Community-Based Environmental Health Promotion Programme

nature.com
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3

Integration of Household Water Filters with Community-Based Sanitation and Hygiene Promotion in Rwanda

mdpi.com
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4

Geospatial-temporal, demographic, and programmatic adoption characteristics of a large-scale water filter and improved cookstove intervention in Western Province, Rwanda

tandfonline.com
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5

A cost-benefit analysis of livelihood, environmental and health benefits of a large scale water filter and cookstove distribution in Rwanda

sciencedirect.com
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6

Health, livelihood, and environmental impacts of the distribution of a carbon-credit-financed, large-scale water filter and improved cookstove programme in Rwanda

thelancet.com
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7

Assessing use, exposure, and health impacts of a water filter and improved cookstove distribution programme in Rwanda

semanticscholar.org
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8

Use, microbiological effectiveness and health impact of a household water filter intervention in rural Rwanda

sciencedirect.com
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9

Study design of a cluster-randomized controlled trial to evaluate a large-scale distribution of cook stoves and water filters in Western Province, Rwanda

sciencedirect.com
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10

Process evaluation and assessment of use of a large scale water filter and cookstove program in Rwanda

bmcpublichealth.biomedcentral.com
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11

Designing and Piloting a Program to Provide Water Filters and Improved Cookstoves in Rwanda

journals.plos.org
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12

Assessing the Impact of Water Filters and Improved Cook Stoves on Drinking Water Quality and Household Air Pollution: A Randomised Controlled Trial in Rwanda

journals.plos.org
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13

Use of Remotely Reporting Electronic Sensors for Assessing Use of Water Filters and Cookstoves in Rwanda

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