Mekong water project
The Mekong Project is a community-focused water purifying project along the Mekong River Delta, offering a climate-friendly solution for drinking water and helping to avoid preventable illnesses in the region.
12 million tonnes
CO2e emissions avoided over 10 years
600,000
water purifiers distributed to local communities
2.7 million
people benefit from access to cleaner water
The Mekong project is a community-focused water purification initiative in Vietnam. It offers an emissions-reducing solution to the problem of unclean drinking water and helps to prevent avoidable illnesses in the community.
The project distributes ISO-certified water purifiers to more than 2.7 million people within 600,000 households along the Mekong. This means the households no longer need to burn firewood and boil water in order to consume it, thereby reducing household air pollution, carbon emissions, and regional deforestation. Over a 10-year period, the project will avoid more than 12 million tonnes of CO2e emissions.
In rural Vietnam, around 71% of households generate drinking water by boiling it. The purifiers use ceramic filters to produce clean water, filtering between 2 and 3 litres of liquid per hour. The technology provides an affordable, carbon-neutral solution and supports UN Sustainable Development Goal 6: the human right to safe water and sanitation.
Manufactured in Hanoi, the water purifiers are hand-delivered and installed in each household by the Vietnam Women’s Union.