SOLB: Forum on Sustainable Solutions for Water Security

Dr. Michael Angelo Promentilla discusses to the participants of SOLB: Forum on Sustainable Solutions for Water Security the importance of water sanitation in maintaining a healthy and clean community.

 

Mr. Paco Caparas shares how Bainbridge Management Partners provides safe drinking water to communities in coastal areas with water security problems

Tech pitch presenters discuss their innovations in solving problems on water quality and waste water treatment.

Ms. Sophia Angeli Dayrit from the Department of Environmental Science, Ateneo de Manila University discusses the significance of research methods and tools in developing sustanable solutions to water security

Mr. Carlos Ani, Country Director of Water.org, talks about financing to achieve water sanitation, especially among poor Filipinos across the country. It partners with microfinance institutions to provide easy-to-pay loans for Filipinos to put up their own water and toilet facility in their homes. By doing this, his organization tries to contribute to decrease the number of Filipinos with no access to water because of expensive processing of getting connected to water utility companies.

 

Mr. Auke Idzenga, of Alternative Indigenous Development Foundation, Inc. (AIDFI), discusses the importance of involving the community in having access to water. His organization, in partnership with Coca-Cola Foundation Philippines, provides poor communities with ram pump technology that filters water from a natural water source. They involve the members of the community to install their own water filters so that they will have a sense of ownership to the technology that gives them easy access to clean water.

 

 

 

 

 

Ms. Jenica Dizon, Director of Operations of Waves for Water, introduces the initiatives of her organization in solving water problems. Waves for Water helps communities, especially those with poor access to potable water, by providing low-cost water filter technology. They do it by partnering with private companies that have the same vision to help Filipinos to have access to clean and potable water.

 

 

 

Mr. Kevin Lee, Executive Director of A Single-Drop for Safe Water, Inc., highlights the importance of tapping and partnering with the local government units, especially as they provide safe and affordable water in waterless communities in Autonomous Region of Muslim Mindanao (ARMM).
 

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