Vebego Cleaning Services Made Blue

To date the Vebego - Made Blue partnership has resulted in 200,000,000 liters of clean water being made available by Made Blue Foundation. This provides access to clean water and hygiene to over 2.500 people today and for at least the next 10 years to come.

In developing regions, bottled water is often sold in plastic bottles or plastic bags and in small quantities: this makes it affordable to those having to make a living with less than a Dollar a day. When access to tap water is not available, cheap plastic bottled waters often are the best available option. That makes the lack of access to tap water one of the main sources of plastic waste pollution according to experts. This is the case in urban areas and also in about half of our projects. Rivers originating in developing regions in Africa and Asia carry the vast majority of plastic waste straight to the oceans. By making clean water available to those who need it the most, Made Blue Foundation helps to eliminate plastic waste at the source. The Vebego Cleaning Services Made Blue Foundation partnership has prevented an estimated 2.000 tons of plastic waste polluting the environment.

Also, by making drinking water readily available, carbon emissions are avoided as a result of preventing the usual boiling of polluted surface water. Research learns a ceramic water filter reduces 1,10 tons of CO2 per year per filter. Conservatively, with 10 users per filter and the UN figure that 1 person needs at least 20 liters of water per day, the filter is good for 73,000 liters per year. This means that 1 million liters of clean drinking water provides a CO2 saving of 13.74 tons and 1,000 liters provides 13.74 kg of CO2 savings. This is the case in about half of our projects, resulting in an estimated prevention of 1.400 tons of carbon emissions in the Vebego - Made Blue Foundation partnership.

Achieving SDG 6 requires an estimated USD 114 billion investment per year. Public funding is not enough and less than USD 5 billion is funded by donors. Private capital is essential to reach the target, but is only 1.36% of total private finance.
The benefit-cost ratio of the investment in water and sanitation is considered as 7 to 1 in developing countries. Poor sanitation, water and hygiene leads to 675,000 premature deaths per year and losses up to 7% of GDP per year. Finally, the human suffering by especially women and girls due to collecting water is immense. It keeps them away from education, paid labor and makes them victims of abuse.