Narok County, Kenya

Clean water,
powered by the sun

A passive, solar-powered water-purification plant for a school of 500+ children in rural Kenya. No electrical grid. No operating cost. Built to last.

The community water tank on the Kenyan plain. Today
Current water point

— Today on the ground

Four kilometres, every morning.
For water that makes them sick.

500+
Students
4 km
Daily walk
159
E. coli units
Our proposed design

Engineering that works
without the grid.

Every stage of Vitalqua runs on sunlight and gravity — no chemicals, no moving parts beyond the solar lift.

2 km solar transport

A photovoltaic-powered pump lifts raw water from the pond and delivers it across the plain to the treatment plant at the school. 100 % off-grid.

Passive treatment

Cascade aeration, settling tank, roughing filter, slow sand filter, biochar polishing. Every purification stage runs on gravity and biology — no electricity dependency.

Community-owned

Local operators trained by ADESCI maintain and expand the system from day one. We build; the community owns and runs.

The impact

Three numbers that change a school.

End-to-end — from the source to the classroom.

10L daily provision · per person
44€ cost per STUDENT supply
0€ LIFETIME OPERATING BUDGET
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Our implementing partner
ADESCI

Boots on the ground for over twenty years.

The Vitalqua project is developed in partnership with ADESCI, a non-profit organisation with over 20 years of experience in international cooperation.

While our team focuses on the technical engineering and passive design, ADESCI ensures the successful execution and social integration on the ground. We partnered with them because they don't just build and leave: they conduct an active, continuous follow-up on all their completed projects from day one.

Their on-the-ground expertise is the key to guaranteeing that the Vitalqua infrastructure achieves long-term sustainability and true local autonomy.

Click here to visit the official ADESCI website ↗

20+ Years of cooperation
Day 1 Follow-up begins
100 % Local operators trained
In partnership with

Supported by ADESCI, Universitat de Barcelona, Universitat Internacional de Catalunya and Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya.

The seven stages

Visit our interactive simulation

Follow a drop of water through the seven-stage journey — from the solar pump at the source to a clean glass at school.

See the process