Best Projects 2019 features all the nominated entries submitted ‘Submit your Project’ category. All the entries consist of innovative projects run by existing enterprises in the form of businesses, NGOs or informal programs.
INUMA purified water for rural and perri-urban areas
Project Details
Explain your project in details:
INUMA is an affordable decentralized water infrastructure. It is at the same time : (1) a water collection facility, (2) a water treatment facility (3) and distribution microgrid facility/network all in one place. INUMA was designed to be and is technically and financially scalable. From one groundwater source through a powerful solar pump and 3-stage filtration process, one INUMA creates a powerful mini-grid to service households with clean, safe, reliable and affordable water all powered by renewable energy. An INUMA Network is made of three parts: 1. The Nexus: is the central and first step that includes a water source, a three stage filtration system, energy source, a storage tank and two taps at the front for walk-up customers. 2. The Node: is simply a kiosk building with storage inside that is connected to the nexus and can also service water to walk-up customers 3. The NOW: or private connection, is any outlet from an INUMA network pipeline into a household, clinic, school or other institution. 4. The Nano: is a smaller Nexus model for smaller communities Through this project, WARwanda aims to: 1. Increase the percentage of individuals happy with their water source 2. Reduce the individual expenditure on good water systems in Rwanda 3. Employ 100 young people in Rwanda by the end of 2020 towards providing great water systems 4. Eliminate the use of coal in treating water 5. Reducing carbon emissions to the environment by eliminating the use of firewood as a means of ensuring water is safe when boiled
Read MoreImpact of your enterprise on sustainable development
WARwanda builds and professionally maintains INUMA safe water systems that is empowered by Water4, our partner. INUMA outlets sell water to walk up customers and wholesale distributors from up to four different locations within a community. When an INUMA network is set up in a community, it delivers a definitive blow to economic water scarcity by providing reliable access to clean. This has major impact on the health and education of the beneficiary communities. Through WARwandas 19 INUMA kiosks, we are able to have an impact on youth employment by having provided employment to 34 people in Rwanda. In one sector, Mageragere where WARwanda set up 6 INUMA systems, the community had lost 3 lives to crocodiles that inhabited the river they had as their only water source. There has been ZERO deaths from crocodiles since we set up those systems. This reduction in riverbank activities can only mean a better ecosystem. Furthermore, access to clean water advances environmental justice which allows the reduction of carbon emissions. By providing clean safe water, we eliminate the need for boiling it, thus offsetting carbon emissions. WARwanda undertakes another project (Water for Climate) supplementing our INUMA project that provides clean water through 41 sources. 56,658 tons of carbon will be offset each year and with INUMA systems and we are able to capitalize on this. WARwanda has reduced the individual expenditure on good water systems in Rwanda. Our prices remain 2-4 times more affordable than any direct competitor in the country and sometimes for superior service. This allows for water scarcity to be eliminated faster with less funding for individual water projects. Today, approximately 2,000 people get water from our INUMA locations by walking to a kiosk every day and our target is to connect 500 in their houses by December 2019.
Read MoreSustainability and future plans
Upscaling the NUMA network could be done on two levels: 1. Rwanda (District Wide Approach) Local teams could be set up within the districts whose sole purpose is to drill holes and set up NUMA networks. This could increase the speed and keep an ongoing flow of creation of water points for Rwandans. The local government has partnered with us in Nyarugenge District and Rusizi District where we have started expanded up to the point where we now have 19 NUMA water networks. By the end of 2019, we aim to establish more of these networks in Rusizi district, where there is an outbreak of cholera. 2. International expansion Water Access Rwanda has established contacts through the projects already done and customer base in East and Central Africa still experiences growth thanks to water4 as a partner. In Burundi, the company saw the creation of a new drilling team and fostered its growth as it completed over 10 boreholes for the province of Cibitoke. In DRC, focus is on the North Kivu province where 6 surveys were done to locate future drilling places, and one borehole was already completed. In Uganda, Water Access Rwanda worked with partners and conducted private surveys in regions close to Rwanda in Ntungamo, but also far from Rwanda in Bundibugyo, Fort Portal area of Uganda. In our financial model, the capital investment sought is repaid back to the initial investors from water sales earnings through four different models: 1. Revenue Share Agreements (only with government given water policy) 2. Profit Share Agreements (with NGOs that commit for a 5-year term or longer with a minimum of 4 Networks done together each year). 3. Debt Investment into the infrastructure 4. Pay-Back over 7-years with accrued profit on system
Read MoreYour profile as an entrepreneur
As a young Rwandan activist and social entrepreneur, I hold a Mechanical Engineering degree from Oklahoma Christian University where I did a research on purifying water using ozone and graduated Magna Cum Laude. I work full time to promote youth-led initiatives and help fellow young people achieve their full potential. I have a track record in environmental activism through a Sierra Club Fellowship and advocacy for minimally invasive and sustainable water provision methods. I have also facilitated more than 89 successful boreholes all over Rwanda (drilled manually) and over 300 filters used in Rwandan households to provide safe water without boiling. My end goal for the company I run to so permanently and sustainably eradicate the water crisis. It is tough to imagine how it will ever be over. The water crisis seems like a terrible issue that seems to be getting worse as its new facets emerge even in developed countries. But when it is over, meaning the water crisis Id like to be remembered as someone who took major jabs at it. Quite recently, I won the Woman Entrepreneur of the Year awarded by INCO. In addition to this, I have been awarded the following: Youth SDG Innovator, UN SDSN, New York, 2018 Africa Entrepreneurship Award, Morocco 2017 Most Innovative Female-run business, IFC/KORA, Rwanda 2016 Resolution Fellowship, Miami, 2015 MilLEAD Fellowship, Ghana, 2014 GPEP Fellowship, Sierra Clube, Washington DC, 2014
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Hello Leader,
I am here to give my full support and encouragement to this brilliant project of yours. Keep up the good work my friend. Never give up in your fight even if it seems hard.
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Your project is good. However, i think you still need to improve on your traction (impact of your enterprise on sustainability development); for any ongoing project, as Entrepreneurs; traction is like our success story and shows our progress and also has a positive impact on investors to be and we your clients / customers. Providing statistical evidence will be a good edge against selection criteria. Best of luck
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Hi Kwizera,
I must congratulate you for your innovation. Water is life indeed. Humankind is blessed with this commodity that occupies about 70per cent of the planet. We don't just need water, we need clean water. Thanks very much for saving your village from sanitation issues, especially the womenfolk. I love your project because it is threefold
1. Providing water point
2. Purifying the water
3. Distributing it to homes
What else is needed? The village should compose songs in your praise. If you have come from regions where water is a problem, you know you have to vote for this lady daily!
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Dyna Ishimwe
I really appreciate your project of providing cleaned water in community.
I was impressed on how you provide the water kiosks to the people who live near of Nyabarongo who were suffering from crocodiles .
It showed me how you care about the citizen and how you provide solution in society.
I wish you to move forward .
Thank you
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Dyna Ishimwe
I like the way that you offers water solutions to Rwandans and neighbors. I really appreciate the way you support the people who get water from Nyabarongo and to be not affected by crocodiles.
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Great! Very interesting how you plan to enable youth in solving various social and economic problems through critical thinking, keep up.
I wish you success on your project, hope you will accomplish that.
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Congratulations on your project, very nice initiative.
humanity is counting on you for change. Don't let go of the best is in front of you.
A lot of courage.
Good initiation and thinking about your project is very good iam hoping to see your project in one of the best .Keep doing .Its good idea and i voted your idea
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This is a great project you have here!one of the most important thing to survive is good water and which you striving to provide for your country.
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Zirimwabagabo Romain
This is one of the most important water project that access drinkable water to the people in urban and rural areas, I liked this project especially when I was travelled near Nkombo island of Rwanda where you can see some of drilled water and I was surprised to hear that is the project of warwanda. Good luck!
DISMAS KARURANGA
I do appreciate that we can have this wonderful project! Access to water in Rwanda has progressed during the last 2 decades attaining almost 87.6 % in 2018. However, the issue is reliability. In most areas even in urban areas, water can be accessed twice a week leaving a gap for access to safely managed water. This technology will complete the country's ongoing effort for 100% access to water and sanitation in 2020. Moreover, this the only way to access the remote rural areas. I liked this project so much my rating is excellent (9/10)
Hello Cristelle, your project is really amazing. The inaccessibility to clean water is still a big challenge to both urban and rural communities. Having your company set a full package service provision (water collection, water treatment and distribution), this shows how impactful is your project "INUMA" to the targeted population.
Great project indeed.