World Vision South Africa Adopts Israeli Technology in Mobile Water Generation Project

World Vision South Africa has chosen Watergen, an Israel-based company to help launch a mobile water generation project for communities in Eastern Cape, South Africa.

World Vision South Africa is a non-profit organization that addresses critical human needs and develop sustainable solutions in communities around the world. This latest project will involve building a customized heavy-duty trailer to carry the GEN-350 atmospheric water generator (AWG) produced by Watergen. The trailer will convey the AWG to provide clean water to residents of the Eastern Cape.

Eastern Cape particularly has been experiencing severe drought over the last few years. This is greatly influenced by a continued increase in population, inefficient infrastructure, contaminated rivers, dependence on water usage for the coal industry and insufficient fresh water supply in South Africa.

World Vision intends to use a $200 000 awarded in conjunction with Ford Motor Company Fund and an additional $130 000 from Ford Research and Advanced Engineering to acquire the GEN-350. The electric operated GEN-350 weighs 800kg and each unit contains an internal water treatment system that can produce up to 900 litres of safe and pure water daily. The equipment will be powered by a diesel generator and the trailer will be towed by a Ford Ranger from Eastern Cape Motors.

Watergen has been listed on the world’s top technology pioneer by the World Economic Forum in 2018. Their effort to make fresh water available around the world is notable. They were recently nominated as the ‘Best of Innovation Honoree’ in the Tech for a Better World category at the CES USA 2019.

Over the next two years, the project will provide fresh drinking water to 50 early childhood development centres and across 79 schools in Uitenhage and KwaNobuhle axis. About 4 clinics and 3400 households are estimated to benefit from the project.