Quest Water Global, an water technology company, announced today that the company had launched its first AQUAtap Oasis Community Water Center on March 22, 2021, the UN’s World Water Day, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).
The first Community Water Center is located in an underserved community within the capital city of Kinshasa. The AQUAtap technology is Quest Water’s product for automated and solar-powered water purification, desalination and distribution. The launch of the Community Water Center represents the initiation of Phase 1 of the AQUAtap Oasis Partnership’s clean water initiative in the DRC, which includes plans to deploy 500 solar-powered Community Water Centers over time. The Partnership officially inaugurated the first Community Water Center on April 8, 2021.
Phase 1 of the initiative is expected to provide an affordable and reliable supply of clean water to 1.2 million residents of the DRC in underserved, rural and peri-urban communities. The long-term objective of the Partnership is to ultimately provide clean water to 10 million+ people in disadvantaged neighborhoods and communities throughout the country.
Phase 1 of the Partnership’s clean water initiative in the DRC, which is expected to take approximately 5 years to fully implement, requires funding of USD $75M through a combination of debt and equity. The Partnership currently has funds pledged towards the deployment of future Community Water Centers.
The next AQUAtap systems destined for the DRC are currently in the pre-engineering stage and will be manufactured in Canada with final assembly in the DRC. To meet the Partnership’s stated objectives, plans include manufacturing future AQUAtap systems in several locations, including Canada, the USA, the DRC and South Africa.
SOURCE: Quest Water Solutions
