I am in Togo a west African-country(population 7.6 million) as a consultant for Light In The World Development Foundation to help implement a bucket water filter program. SAFE WATER PLUS provided the initial 50 filters to be distributed. LWDF owns & operates 2 medical clinics 1 in Lome & 1 in Agou. Realizing how important water is to the health of the people LWDF has committed to implementing a filter program in the region.
Mt. Agou, 120 km. from Lome, 2 hr. drive. Highest point in Togo, 1000 meters (3200 ft.). This is what was once jungle & covered in Tek wood which was harvested & sold to China. It will take several hundred years to regrow the trees.
Water Treatment Plant in Kpalime, provides water for 700K-900K in the region.
Plante Sotou Plant Manager (pictured)
The concrete area is underground storage for approximately 264K gal. of water
Plant is feed by a lake in the mountain pictured. Flows by gravity to water plant.
Road to medical clinic at base of Mt. Agou.
Clinic is powered solely thru solar energy.
400 ft deep well.
We are sampling the well water & testing to determine type of filtration required.
If you look closely you can see the houses scattered on the mountainside.
Workers carrying a small Tek log to be repurposed
Small lake the people come to get drinking water.
Woman drawing water to drink. This is her daily job to fetch water.
We will be doing a filter distribution here & I will drink the filtered water.