Gifty Adeyiga, the midwife in charge of the facility, said that since the installation of the filtration system, there has been a drastic reduction in water-related diseases, such as cholera, diarrhea, dysentery, Hepatitis A, and typhoid.

The only source of water for Richlove Apedo’s school is the heavily polluted Volta River in Ghana. A 10-year-old student at Pediatorkorpe Basic School in the Ada East District of the Greater Accra region, she and her classmates have to walk for a half hour to collect the contaminated water used for drinking and hand washing.

Patricia Owulah has spent 52 years in the Kewusi, a fishing community of 250 people in the Ada East District of the Greater Accra Region, Ghana. For as long as she can remember, villagers have been plagued by waterborne diseases from contaminated water drawn from the Volta River, shortening lifespans and degrading quality of life.