Rwanda Water Treatment

Virridy's Amazi Meza program in Rwanda is deploying water treatment systems at primary and secondary schools for students who currently drink microbially contaminated drinking water. Diarrhea, associated with dirty drinking water, is still the leading cause of illness and death among school-aged children in Rwanda. Our program will reach about 600,000 students with clean drinking water services over the next several years and is expected to generate over 200,000 carbon credits by 2030.

The Virridy management team led the development and implementation of the first-ever United Nations Clean Development Mechanism and Gold Standard programs earning carbon credits for water treatment. Through these programs, tens of millions of dollars of private financing were leveraged to deliver household water filters to millions of people in Rwanda and Kenya, with revenue from carbon credits largely re-invested into education, repairs and replacements and resulting in significant health, economic and environmental benefits.