• Problem: Clinics and schools in humid regions still face unsafe or unreliable drinking water, disrupting health services and learning, especially during outages and floods.
• Solution: Deploy energy-efficient atmospheric water generators with solar or reliable grid power, a WHO-aligned treatment train, and local operations and maintenance.
• Pilot Scope: 2–3 sites (clinic/school compounds) with 300–500 liters/day each; coastal and inland comparison for evidence.
• Budget & Timeframe: USD 120,000–250,000 per site; 12–18 months from planning to learning review.
• Anticipated Impact: Reliable on-site potable water; reduced time burden on women and youth; improved service continuity; transparent cost-per-liter and performance data for scale-up decisions.

Vision and Innovation for Empowerment (VIE) is a registered nonprofit promoting sustainable development in West and Central Africa. VIE operates under IRS 501(c)(3) compliance and Texas nonprofit law, with bylaws, conflict-of-interest, and transparency safeguards. The mission emphasizes community-led design, evidence-based implementation, and partnerships with governments, research institutions, and international agencies.

• Unsafe or intermittent water at clinics and schools undermines care quality, learning, and hygiene.
• Trucked or bottled water is costly and unreliable; boreholes may be brackish or unviable in some sites.
• Humid climates create a niche where AWG can produce safe drinking water if paired with the right power and treatment.
• Local capacity for preventive maintenance and water-quality assurance is limited and requires structured support.

Goal: Improve health, learning conditions, and resilience by providing safe, reliable drinking water at clinics and schools via AWG systems.

Objectives:

1. Deliver 300–500 liters/day of WHO-quality water per site with at least 95% uptime.
2. Achieve site-measured specific energy of 0.5–0.8 kWh/L and publish cost per liter.
3. Cut time spent fetching water by 50% for target user groups.
4. Train local operators and certify at least two technicians per site.
5. Produce a scale-up playbook and cost-effectiveness brief for government programs.

• Direct: 5,000–10,000 residents in the clinic/school catchment; 500–1,500 students; health workers and teachers with reliable on-site water; local technicians trained.
• Indirect: Families in surrounding areas, patients accessing clinics, local governments benefiting from improved service continuity.

1. Site Selection: High-humidity communes with secure compounds, reliable power plan, and committed partners.
2. Design: Size AWG by measured RH/temperature; power by observed kWh/L; sealed storage and hygienic dispensing.
3. Treatment: Filtration, UV or equivalent, remineralization, and residual chlorine; routine FC, turbidity, pH/TDS checks; quarterly lab testing.
4. Implementation: Turnkey installation, commissioning tests, operator SOPs in local language.
5. Operations and Maintenance: Preventive maintenance calendar, consumables stock, remote support, and vendor warranty with uptime service levels.
6. Community Engagement: Hygiene messages on safe storage and handwashing; simple grievance redress mechanism.
7. Data and Transparency: Log liters/day, kWh/L, cost per liter, downtime, and water-quality; quarterly public brief.

Indicators:

• Liters of potable water produced per day and peak production.
• Specific energy consumption (kWh/L) and cost per liter.
• Uptime and maintenance events.
• Compliance with WHO drinking-water parameters.
• Time savings and user satisfaction.
• Training completion and local capacity indicators.

Methods: Flow and energy metering, digital logbooks, spot and lab tests, user surveys, and quarterly reviews.

Typical total range across sites: USD 120,000–250,000 depending on power option and humidity profile. Working cost-per-liter target in humid zones: USD 0.06–0.20/L.

Low-impact installation within existing compounds; ESF/ESMP-lite as required; labor and occupational health and safety; child safeguarding; Water Safety Plan; simple grievance redress mechanism; safe handling and disposal of filters and UV lamps.

Sustainability: Emphasis on local maintainability, widely available consumables, and transparent reporting of cost per liter and uptime.

Scalability: Government-friendly documentation including playbook, bills of quantities, and standard drawings to integrate into service delivery programs; pathways for blended finance and CSR partnerships in high-humidity corridors.

• Health and education authorities: Site selection, co-financing, operations oversight.
• Municipal governments: Compound readiness, caretaking, operator stipends.
• Accredited laboratories and research institutes: Water-quality testing and evaluation.
• Vetted technology vendors and installers: Equipment, commissioning, warranty support.
• Civil society groups: Community engagement and feedback mechanisms.

• SDG 3 – Good Health and Well-Being
• SDG 4 – Quality Education
• SDG 6 – Clean Water and Sanitation
• SDG 7 – Affordable and Clean Energy
• SDG 9 – Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure
• SDG 13 – Climate Action

The AWG Pilot offers donors and partners a targeted, evidence-led path to reliable, safe drinking water for clinics and schools in humid regions.

Technical annexes, unit-cost assumptions, monitoring frameworks, and site selection templates are available upon request.