Nonprofit deploys game-changing tech to bring fresh drinking water to thousands of people: 'Now, water is just a few steps away'

Nonprofit deploys game-changing tech to bring fresh drinking water to thousands of people: 'Now, water is just a few steps away'

In just two years, access to safe water in southwest Cameroon has increased from 2,750 people to more than 50,000. The impetus to this: solar-powered boreholes. Originally, people in Cameroon would have to walk hours each day to fetch unsafe drinking water. Now, the United Nations Development Programme, funded by the government of Japan, has brought in boreholes, which provide reliable and safe drinking water. These boreholes utilize a pump that…