The first projects we ever built were six wells in a refugee camp in Uganda. We wanted to prove to our donors that their money was spent exactly how we said it would be, and where it went.
Us is entered in an electronics store and buy a GPS handheld for $100. We have taken to Uganda, went to each project and six plotted points on Google Maps ™. And then we made public information on our Web site as well as photos for everyone to see. We have done this since then.
Fast forward six years later and we have now more than 6 994 water projects in 20 countries, serving more than 2.5 million people. And even if we continued to map each unique project of the water, we do not believe their location is good enough plus. We want to know if each of them is working right now in real time.
Although our staff and our local partners visit our programs often, it is simply not possible to visit each project often enough to make sure that the water flows all the time. Thanks to the Google Global Impact Award, we will be able to go hope this function of projects over time, namely that they are.
But just to know the State projects is not good enough. If a failure occurs, it must be a system in place to ensure that it attaches quickly. This is why an important part of this pilot project will be to continue the training and establishment of local mechanical programs everywhere in the world that can ship to the communities within their reach and make repairs. This will create new jobs and small businesses in places where they do not now exist.
We know the data will discover new challenges, but we are excited and committed to meet their head on. We used Google Maps ™ to innovate over the past six years and today we are incredibly excited to work with Google on the sensor technology remotely, this time to further increase the transparency of our donors and deliver the water more effectively than ever before, the people who most need.
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