Prosperity Tanks

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Prosperity Tanks

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Prosperity Tanks exists to aide those living in the driest regions of Kenya to leverage rain for economic advancement while meeting their daily water needs

Standings & Awards

92 out of 591 in Africa
9 out of 69 in Water
75 out of 930 in Define
102 out of 992 in Charitable
270 out of 4003 Overall

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Imagine every household in DRY REGION has clean and safe water in storage even when water is unavailable.

Water is life. Water as a resource is a critical to all forms of life. Every person must have water in-order to strive on earth. A lack of water or a lack of clean and safe water is the greatest causative agent of death especially for the residents of dry areas like Mbeere district (with a population of 170,000 people) where water availability and accessibility is fairly poor. In this District, Rainfall is bi-modal in nature with annual average of between 640 and 1110mm(Republic of Kenya, 2001). The rains are however not very reliable because most parts receive less than 500mm per annum. The long rains are experiences between April and June while the short rains fall from October through December. Although the residents are believed to have houses with rooftops, they are however taken seasons of long rainfalls for granted. Due to no/or little awareness they do not make good use of rainwater. The project therefore aims at addressing this critical issue through two-fold approaches:

To create awareness to the household in the district on the value and significance of alternatively making good use/storage of rainwater during long rains seasons (April and June) for later use especially in the regions where water availability and accessibility is poor compared to other regions of Kenya.
To provide the residents of Mbeere district with over 2000 modern rainwater tanks. In addition to providing them with free rainwater tanks to be installed from their existing rooftop structures, the project will educate the families on proper and appropriate use of the tanks, and a better way of capturing, filtering and storing rainwater for cleanliness and safety to prevent diseases.

Development of Project Concept:

Phase 1: Research/Needs Assessment

Phase 2: Awareness/education on rainwater aggregation

Phase 3: Distribution and installment of over 2000 Rainwater Tanks in the homes/households in Mbeere districts

Phase 4: Access and Usage of clean water for domestic and environmental purposes

Phase 5: Follow-up, evaluation via direct observations, surveys and interviews to measure success.

Sponsors, Investors, and Supporters

FIVE PROJECT QUESTIONS Required (60 - 90 minutes)

1. What is your innovation?

Prosperity Tanks (PT) collaborates with local partners to teach people in the driest regions of Kenya how to collect, store and prosper from rain water. This is accomplished by providing rain water collection tanks and coordinating clean water sanitation classes in the impacted areas. Profits earned by selling excess water collected from this initial PT cluster(a group of rainwater tanks) will be reinvested in the community and Prosperity Tanks to provide more rain water tanks.

2. Who gains the most?

The poor households in Mbeere District with rooftops structured houses.The target beneficiaries include: 1-Men: To use water for farming purposes such as livestock husbandry, irrigation of farm/cash crop/produce food for the families. 2-Women and girls: To consume water for drinking, cooking and laundry thus saving time of traveling long distances(3-6 hours) to fetch water. 3-Children: To provide clean safe water and healthy food to support better hygiene and physical development.

3. Who pays?

Clean&accessible water is in high demand in dry regions that the residents always pay for water with their time or money. PT already has one initial cluster sponsored by MALI. For this water, Mbeere residents pay $1 for a 20 liters canteen of water.With an expected collection of over 30k L after each rainy season per tank,PT can raise $1.5k per tank. A portion(50%) of this revenue will be collected by the investors-and a portion(50%) will be reinvested back into PT to purchase additional tanks.

4. What is your success?

By 2014, 60% of the residents will have knowledge on basic water sanitation and management practices. By 2015, 10,000+ households out of 170,000 people in the district will own and maintain high quality BPA water tanks holding a capacity of 50,000+ liters of water. By 2021 clean and safer water will be available and accessible to the entire 170,000 population with tangible improved living standards and food security, economy, health and hygiene.

5. How will you do it?

With the initial PT cluster already in operation, PT is impacting 20-30 people.Based on this initial success the plan is,in 3 months, PT will have 10 more tanks installed&ready for the next rainy season(Sep-Nov).PT will have 2-3 classes on water sanitation&management practices for 200 residents. In 6 months will collect 50k L per tank to ensue enough water through the next dry season(Dec-Ap). In 5 years,PT will generate $500K in revenue(after giving 50% to the investors) to grow base from 17-200