Over 2.2 billion people are living without access to safe water. Alarming right! Tackling the global water crisis will require going beyond raising awareness on the issue and taking an all-encompassing approach to helping the world achieve Sustainable Development Goal 6: water and sanitation for all by 2030. 

The theme of World Water Day 2021 is “Valuing Water”. According to the SDGs, valuing water means recognizing and considering all the diverse benefits and risks provided by water, and encompassing its economic, social, and ecological dimensions as well as its diverse cultural and religious meanings. Understanding the value of water is very important to help the world safeguard this critical resource for the benefit of everyone.

This is why the NFTI’s Warawa Living Lab Project seeks to develop innovative strategies to address the issue of water scarcity in some of our most vulnerable communities while using data generated from such intervention to understudy the impact of the provision of water on everyday social issues and behavioral patterns driving decision in communities with lack of access to this necessary commodity. The foundation’s main goal is to provide innovators across the public sector and the development space with platforms for experimenting and using the power of technology to confront real-world challenges and policy issues by providing exciting ways to generate data for decision making.

For us at NFTI, we are going beyond raising awareness and taking action through the power of Data Science in ending the global water crisis. We are partnering with communities to deliver sustainable change through innovative social infrastructure to address the issue of water scarcity in some of the most vulnerable areas. We hope to provide water whilst infusing technology to collect data for social good.

We have impacted over 4,000 inhabitants of the Yan Dachi community in Warawa Local Government of Kano State with access to clean, potable water through our solar power borehole infused with technology; providing a sustainable impact on their health and livelihoods. Before our intervention,  the people walked for 2KM to nearby ponds/well in Jemagu. 

We are proud of our contributions to changing lives.