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Donation Campaign Christmas 2020   Dear Friends and Supporters   The year 2020 although it has been such a difficult year for all of us due to the Covid-19 pandemic and the global efforts to stem it has also been a time of great concentration and synergy for our Project. The tenacity and creativity of the Ren4Water Team together with the continuous support of numerous sponsors have allowed us to face the various challenges inherent in the assembly phase of the first prototype in this difficult scenario. To present today a preview of the first fully automated ma...

Donation Campaign Christmas 2019 Dear Friends and Supporters   We are almost there! With the end of this year the realization of our dream is approaching thanks to your support and the efforts of a Technical Team enhanced with new collaborators and even more motivated which was able to give the Ren4Water Project a lot of enthusiasm and many hours of work! 2019 marked some important milestones like the granting of our international patent; we have completed the mechanical design of our Water Box; we have also started the development of the control electronics. We ...

Dear Friends and Supporters at this point we would like to introduce to you the 4 collaborators who have been working with us since 2018 on the realization of the working prototypes. Their technical skills and their tenacity proved to be very valuable for the modeling and engineering of the machine in a perspective of improvement and reliability of performance for the field tests. As well as help to consolidate the REN4WATER team and communication. Andrea Berti: systems engineer and IT consultant with decades of experience he has become the master of our web communication by publishing n...

Donation Campaign Christmas 2018 Dear Friends and Supporters Every year 3.4 million people mostly children die because they have no access to sources of safe drinking water. The 80% of diseases in developing countries are waterborne by the use of unsafe water. To date water boiling remains the most widespread method one of the most effective water treatment against all forms of organic contamination and one of the easiest way to obtain safe water at home. However boiling water is highly fuel-expensive and the families have often to choose whether to use their income for treatin...

After the first edition in South Korea in 2017 this year the Water-Energy-NEXUS Conference will take place in Salerno Italy from the 14th to 17th November. This Symposium is designed to share and discuss with international experts key topics for the future of the planet: the link between water issues and renewable energy the technological innovation in these interconnected sectors and the challenges of governance in supporting and promoting sustainable investments and solutions. Moreover the Conference is committed to enforce cooperation integration and sustainable development in the...

Dear Friends and Supporters we are halfway through 2018 and we want to provide an update on the activities related to the working prototypes development that we started at the beginning of the year.   The collaboration project with MARENCO Swiss Engineering AG which started at the end of January successfully completed the Work-Package 1 in which the overall layout size and wiring diagram of the machine were defined. We therefore started the Work-Package 2 which is one of the most complex as it defines the technical specifications for the purchase of components. In parallel we ma...

From July 10th to July 12th the West Africa Water Expo will take place in Lagos Nigeria. It is an extremely important event for the Water sector in West Africa. Over 70 exhibitors are announced to present products technology developments and management experience in the field of water treatment recycling storage and water control systems to prevent flooding. Even for Nigeria the largest country in Africa with its 182 million inhabitants it is clear that oil cannot be the only factor of wealth and development: a country that wants to increase its economic development and improve it...

Established by the UN since 1992 this year's World Water Day marks the beginning of the International Decade of Action for Water and Sustainable Development for the period 2018-2028. As stated by UN General Assembly Resolution 71/222 "The objectives of the Decade focus on the sustainable development and integrated management of water resources for the achievement of social economic and environmental goals and on the implementation and promotion of related programs and projects as well as on the strengthening of cooperation and partnership at all levels in order to help achiev...

Dear Friends and Supporters our donation campaign ”Be part of the dream!” launched last Christmas allowed us to achieve two important results: we collected the necessary funding for the purchase of the components for the first prototype; we also presented the REN4WATER initiative to new organizations which enthusiastically welcomed the opportunity to support us and test our home water purifier powered by renewable energies in the African locations where they operate.   In continuing the donation campaign to finance the working capital of at least 10 prototypes in the cou...

The REN4WATER Team is pleased to announce that the collaborative project with MARENCO AG Swiss Engineering of Pfäffikon Zurich (Switzerland) has started in January this year for the development and production of the first working prototypes of home water purifier  entirely powered by renewable energies. During the year 2017 the REN4WATER Team had already studied in depth the technical feasibility of the project together with the engineers of MARENCO through a series of workshops necessary for the complete definition of the design mechanics and electronics...

“This Christmas join our dream:  safe drinking water in every home!”   Dear Friends and Supporters   Ren4Water has a dream: bring safe drinking water in every home especially where this is not yet a reality. Christmastime is a favorable time to think of others and while we want to wish you a Merry Christmas 2017 we also want to draw your attention upon one of the most compelling issues for humanity: the urgent need of safe drinking water for everyone.   Drinking water access in every home is fundamental for ...

“Some 3 in 10 people worldwide or 2.1 billion lack access to safe readily available water at home” according to a new report issued on July 2017 by WHO and UNICEF. The report confirms the alarming magnitude of the challenge: 2.1 billion include not only the 800 million without access to any improved water source (therefore fetching water from unprotected rivers and boreholes and often consuming it untreated) but also those having access to improved sources that remain unsafe. Moreover the report stresses the importance of enabling access to safe water ...

Eventually REN4WATER Impact has its own website! Starting from now you can visit us and share our vision. The website hosts pictures news and information relative to our project but also to other related technical solutions in the domain of water purification. We believe that our idea can have an important social and environmental impact. We created and launched a website as a powerful tool to disseminate the culture of innovation surrounding access to safe water. Thanks also to your contribution we aim to make it even more informative and relevant in the future. The website offers th...

Some months ago the REN4WATER team went to Ethiopia in the Gurage Region to do a context analysis. The key purpose of the trip was to understand the anthropological and environmental conditions for the forthcoming field tests of its Water Box solution. This pre-field test trip – that we later called our “Go and See in Gurageland” trip – has been done with the aim of gathering key information about people’s behaviors concerning water usage storage and treatment and has been supported logistically by our partner Engera whose rural clinics scattered across Gura...