Health specialist

Why WATASOL works for you

WATASOL plays a core role in removing a key barrier to your successful health and hygiene programmes – poor water quality.

Its benefits are immediate: safe drinking water and the means to disinfect wounds and working surfaces, are the enemies of disease.

Through producing chlorine locally, WATASOL gives a boost to overall hygiene awareness.

Chlorine is highly effective against bacteria and many viruses (99.9% removal), and provides residual protection against recontamination.

Relevant facts

Producing chlorine locally offers three-in-one solutions, as it is used for safe water purification, disinfection and treatment of wounds. Read more.

A UNICEF study in 2008 shows that household-based interventions are about twice as effective in preventing diarrhoeal disease as improved wells, boreholes and communal stand pipes.

From research to best practice

As you will see, schools are the surest way for children to get better access to safe water, to change their hygiene behaviour and to deliver message home to parents. With their huge potential, schools are a prime investment of WATASOL programmes.

An impressive reduction in cholera cases was achieved in Goma, in DRC, through water treatment at household level and through organising sales of chlorine through women’s groups.

See: Summary of WATA benefits