On August 29, the UK government announced it would provide a £27M (around US$35.5M) green loan to fund the use of solar energy to sterilize drinking water for rural communities in Ghana, Africa. It will accomplish this using technology developed by a UK-based firm called Aqua Africa.
The UK Export Finance (UKEF) green loan to the Ghanaian government comes after an agreement between the country’s sanitation & water resources ministry and Aqua Africa in support of a project that has goals to alleviate roughly 225,000 people in Ghana from day-to-day water poverty.
The project will start this month with a ground delivery plan and community engagement drills. By January next year, filtration units will be installed to deliver water to 75 communities, providing clean water to 22,500 people. The 18 months that follow will involve five more phases that will deliver the water pipe system to the remaining 200,000 people. Read more…
