Groundwater Treatment

July 2018, Mozambique

Water in rural Mozambique has often harmful levels of calcium and magnesium. Make a device that can make water more potable.

Rural Mozambique sees high levels of calcium and magnesium in the groundwater that is extracted for quotidian use which makes it non-potable. Thus a proposed innovation by Helvetas is to find a low-cost and widely implementable technology that will allow the groundwater to be potable.

 

Location

Cabo Delgado, Mozambique