Coca-Cola to give $1m to support water projects

Nov - Food Bev - Website Banner - TIJ vs TTO 300x250.gif

Access more as a FoodBev subscriber

Sign up to FoodBev and unlock more insights from the international food and beverage industry. Subscribers have access to webinars, newsletters, publications and more...

Subscribe now >

The projects were selected by the Global Water Challenge business coalition and Ashoka's Changemakers through 'Tapping Local Innovation: Unclogging the Water and Sanitation Crisis', an online competition calling for groundbreaking solutions to some of the world's most pressing water and sanitation challenges.

A total of 265 projects from social entrepreneurs in 54 countries around the world were submitted to the competition. The projects receiving funding are:

Naandi Foundation – Clean drinking water for under-served populations in India.
Manna Energy Foundation – Water treatment plants to create fuel for families in rural Rwanda.
Ecotact – Treatment systems that safely transform waste into fuel and fertiliser for Kenyan communities.li>Clean Shop – Public education to support clean latrines for South African schools.

“This collaborative competition tapped the power of human ingenuity and demonstrated that solutions exist to local water and sanitation issues,” said Paul Faeth, executive director of GWC. “With Coca-Cola‘s $1m grant, we're able to further fund projects that we believe will start a ripple effect in their communities and create scalable, replicable and sustainable models that can be applied around the world.”