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Our MISSION is to help rural communities manage their water source and plan for a sustainable future.

About Smart Water

In East Africa, fewer than 70% of all groundwater supplies are working within a few years of construction. Working closely with rural communities and local government, the Smart Water team designed a system to help rural people manage their water sources and to plan for a sustainable future.

78,350

Smart Water Litres Pumped

2,000,000,000

people lack safe drinking water ¹

70%

Only 70% of all groundwater
sources are working ²

Real Time Data.

Working with local leaders to keep water flowing is critical to our mission. In Febuary 2020, Smart Water started deploying newly-developed, bespoke sensors and cloud computing technology to equip local leaders with real-time data.

Our Impact

Harnessing data to improve handpump reliability

For many communities in Sub-Saharan Africa, the main source of water can be a handpump borehole.

Smart technology applied to the water supply in rural Uganda

Irish companies join a consortium to develop technology to provide safe drinking water for villages

Alex Gason of the Fields of Life NGO and Peter Mawanga from the Kumi District Water office inspecting a Smart Water installation in Oogoria, Uganda

Letterkenny drives advanced use of internet of things in Uganda

Letterkenny IT helps develop water pump devices as Athlone IT focuses on artificial intelligence