How
You Can Help SWI
The
SWI Development Fund
SWI
field projects in Mexico, Bolivia and Malawi have yielded
ideas for better and cheaper ways to provide safe drinking
water for the poor villages of the world. SWI’s Development
Team has worked for two years to create low-cost
alternatives for household water filters, rainwater
storage, well pumps, and UV water disinfection. Prototypes
of several of these devices have been manufactured. The SWI
Development Fund must now expand to produce sufficient
volumes of these devices for testing in Mexico, India and
Africa.
Target:
$25,000 USD
Shallow
Wells in Malawi
Malawi
and many other poor countries have underground water
supplies that are easy to access. This water is often
contaminated because of infiltration of human, animal and
agricultural wastes. SWI is creating low-cost strategies to
drill, pump, and filter this water. Demonstration projects
are planned for Malawi, India, and Mexico.
Targets:
$350 USD per well, pump and filter
$10,000 USD for a country demonstration project
Global
Inventors Challenge
SWI is
convinced that low-cost solutions to safe drinking water
are present around the world in the innovations and
inspirations of individuals who need solutions or want to
find solutions. A Global Inventors Challenge has been
created to bring these ideas to light. All intellectual
property rights and profits derived from prize winning
inventions remain with the inventor. Funds are sought for
competition prizes and for initial development and
prototype production of winning solutions.
Target:
$50,000