The Multi Functional Rural Fuel Platform is fitted with a water purification system, so that the water pumped in by the MFRFP can be cleaned, prior to distribution.

Why Clean Water?

More than 1.1 billion people around the world do not have access to clean drinking water and waterborne illness is the cause of death of over 4,400 people per day, most of them children under the age of five.

“A sub-Saharan baby has 500 times the risk of dying from diarrhea compared with a baby born in the developed world: improving drinking water quality would reduce that risk substantially.”- WHO/UNICEF, Water for Life, 2005

If people do not have a steady supply of good-quality water that is sufficient to meet their daily needs, this can lead to disease through two principal transmission routes.

• Waterborne disease transmission occurs by drinking contaminated water.
• Water-washed disease occurs when there is insufficient water for washing and personal hygiene.

The lack of water means people can't keep their hands, bodies and domestic environments clean: skin and eye infections then spread easily.