Eduation & Outreach | Clean Water Help

Empowering Local Communities

Educating Locals

We think the best ways to empower an community is to teach them how to manage their own water resources. Some of the topics we teach are:

Drinking water treatment:
- Building and maintaining simple drinking water systems, like slow sand filters.
- Understanding microbial contamination, membrane filtration, disinfection, water testing and safe storage
Preserving local freshwater resources:
- Nutrient management to prevent algal growth
- Sewage and pollution management to reduce the risk of contamination and protect the local ecosystem
- How to use and optimize nature-based solutions
Sustainable fishery management:
- Avoiding fish kills
- Increasing yield by optimizing nutrition
- Understanding and optimizing the food web and fish habitat

Lighting Candles

There are more than 500,000 impoverished small villages around the world, many of which do not have access to treated drinking water. It is simply impossible for us to reach everyone.

However, we can "light a candle" where we:

Teach locals in a small community how to build and maintain their own water treatment system.
Identify a few locals who can serve as the experts in their community and give them advanced training.
Pay the local experts to travel to nearby communities and do the same - teach the locals how to build and maintain their own water treatment systems.
Stay connected and provide support, troubleshooting and/or additional training as needed.

"A thousand candles can be lighted from the flame of one candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared. There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it."