Edition 1: eWATERservices newsletter

Alison Wedgwood,?CEO and co-founder

Welcome to the first edition of our eWATER newsletter. In it, we will share with you where we are, our recent highlights and upcoming projects.?

We value our relationships with our stakeholders highly. If there is more you would like to know, or if you have any questions for me, please do get in touch. I’d be delighted to hear from you.

Enjoy the first edition,?

Alison?Wedgwood

Where we are today:

We are a private water company providing a sustainable solution to the water crisis in Sub-Saharan Africa.?With?935?Smart Taps in service, we have served?265,482?people in??Tanzania,?The Gambia?and?Ghana.

Click here to access our live dashboard and view data for where you are?

Join the eWATER revolution

eWATER has secured funding to install 2,000 eWATER Smart Taps in 150 Villages in Kenya, Tanzania, Malawi or Uganda.

This will provide clean water 24/7 for 400,000 people. eWATER stays for a minimum of ten years to keep the system working. Unlike other NGOs and donors we don’t pretend to hand over to the ‘community’ who then get blamed when things go wrong. Our local teams take responsibility.

In each of these Smart Villages eWATER will:

• Install new water systems or fix the existing water systems,
• Convert any diesel pumping operations to solar,
• Upgrade water tanks to ensure 24/7 access,
• Install Smart Pre-Payment taps,
• Engage with the community,
• Register all households with eWATER Smart Tags, and
• Train and hire local technicians and customer services operators to provide professional O&M services.

Want to know more, or get involved? Contact us today.

Why eWATER??

Community models don’t work.

We installed a tap into Sangara in 2020 for a well-known charity, who insisted we hand over the tap to be managed by the community.?When a mains pipe burst not long after installation and they had already “handed it over to the community” so took no responsibility.

As you can see, this left the people of Sangara with no water for over 8 months:

The “community-ownership” model may sound good on paper to Western donors, but the reality is, it doesn’t work. There is no revenue for maintenance and repairs and no accountability, so when a problem arises- which it inevitably does- the water stops flowing.

eWATER works.?

In comparison to these alternative models, eWATER local teams take responsibility with the village, offering local engineers and technicians to ensure that the water keeps flowing.?

Jarreng was the first eWATER village in The Gambia. Installed in 2016, 3,500 customers in Jarreng have enjoyed clean water from our 28 Smart Taps in the village 98% of the time. Local engineers and technicians perform regular maintainance and deliver repairs within days if required. As a result, the villagers can continue to access our safe and clean water.

See the data in depth here.