Proposals

This proposal notes education, awareness, and community mobilization as challenges to existing water and sanitation solutions, and offers a model focused on water credits in order to build a sustainable ...

This proposal notes challenges to current water and sanitation resources including general access and limited access to funding sources. The team offers a model focusing on the creation of partnerships ...

This proposal notes several challenges to existing water and sanitation solutions including a lack of infrastructure, information, education, and more. In order to break the cycle, the team proposes to ...

This proposal notes challenges to current water and sanitation solutions such as access to philanthropic investments, a lack of awareness in communities of the positive impact of WaterCredit, and the ...

This proposal notes sustainability of existing solutions, water quality, access to water and sanitation, and financing options as major challenges. The team recommends developing a group of water consultants to ...

This proposal notes a lack of information as a key challenge to existing water and sanitation practices, and offers a model focusing on increasing commercial capital through partnerships and increased ...

This proposal cites availability, access, and hygiene of water as challenges, as well as scalability of current solutions and presence of political and infrastructure barriers. The team offers a business-focused ...

This proposal notes a lack of information as a general challenge to existing water and sanitation solutions, as well as a lack of community involvement and general awareness. The team ...

This proposal notes challenges with existing water and sanitation solutions such as high cost, lack of information, and inconsistent access to resources. The team offers a solution by providing information ...

This proposal focuses on challenges associated with general access to water and sanitation resources, and recommends increased education and awareness through gender-focused strategies. The team offers a franchising model, enhanced ...

This proposal cites general access to water and sanitation as challenges, and a lack of information. The team offers development of partnerships to encourage increased information sharing and education, micro-finance ...

This proposal cites access to and quality of water and sanitation as major challenges, and offers a business-focused solution to increase the efficiency of water and sanitation resources through partnerships, ...

This proposal cites access to and quality of water and sanitation as major challenges, and offers a business-led model focusing on increased partnerships, micro-finance institutions, education and awareness campaigns, shared ...

This proposal cites insufficient resources as well as access, funding, and scalability of existing solutions as major challenges. The team recommends implementing community-run micro-grids, enhanced by stakeholder engagement and planning, ...

This proposal notes access to and quality of water and sanitation, as well as a lack of education and awareness as major challenges. The team recommends the use of social ...

This proposal notes access to funds as a challenge, and recommends driving funding through the creation of partnerships between providers and fund users. The team offers an online platform as ...

This proposal cites lack of clean water and sanitation as major challenges, as well as cost and access to water and sanitation resources. The proposal also notes a discrepancy between ...

This proposal suggests the advantages of vending machines for mobile payment as a means for increased efficiency and scale of reliability and speed of solutions. The team recommends partnerships between ...

This proposal notes access to clean water as a major challenge, and recommends community empowerment and development of partnerships and community hubs that will provide access to clean water, sanitation, ...

This proposal notes inefficiency and insufficiency of current water and sanitation resources and solutions, as well as a lack of scalability. The team offers a mobile solution to engage major ...

This proposal notes a challenge with reliance on external aid, and offers a community-based solution, leveraging existing social networks for information sharing and partnership building. The team also recommends pooling ...

This proposal notes a discrepancy in the distribution of water as a challenge, and recommends cultivating and enhancing purchasing power at the bottom of the pyramid through community empowerment and ...

This proposal notes a lack of access, time spent on acquiring water, the existence of a black market, poor water quality, and uncoordinated financing opportunities as major challenges. The team ...

This proposal notes a lack of awareness of current solutions and lack of community buy-in as major challenges. The team recommends leveraging a micro finance model and education campaigns to ...

This proposal cites a lack of access to clean water and safe sanitation due to affordability, accessibility, and efficiency of current solutions as major challenges. The team suggests a financial ...

This proposal cites a lack of access to clean water and basic sanitation as major challenges. The team recommends development of a partnership between the government, local water companies, and ...

This proposal cites a lack of skills and expertise, low number of toilets, poor technologies, and safety of water infrastructure as major challenges. The team offers a solution focusing on ...

This proposal recommends growing the people base by promoting partnerships between NGOs, Water.org, and self help groups, and connecting them to micro-finance institutions in order to empower community lending and ...

This proposal cites lack of sufficient capital and scalability of existing solutions as challenges. The team offers Guaranteed Water Bonds, which will help to fund water development projects globally, by ...

This proposal cites safety of and access to water, transportation and search costs, as well as a lack of training and education as major challenges. The team recommends H2Phone, a ...

This proposal cites a lack of water, poor water quality, and lack of community awareness as challenges. The team recommends establishing partnerships, increasing accessibility to water and sanitation-related technologies, regional ...

This solution recommends developing local ownership to empower local implementation of solutions. The team offers a business-in-a-box solution, providing individuals with training and the necessary materials to develop local champions ...

This proposal recommends creating demand through branding in order to increase the number of people served. The team offers a model whereby individuals are served by micro franchises, reducing the ...

This proposal cites a lack of access and storage of safe water and sanitation resources, a lack of training, availability and/or awareness of technologies, limited philanthropic dollars and lack of ...

This proposal notes insufficient availability, accessibility, and drinkability as major challenges, and recommends leveraging the current Water Credit 2.0 model to generate revenue, scalable and sustainable solutions.

This proposal cites lack of access to safe water and sanitation, water-related disease, and insufficient funding as major challenges. To increase the clean water supply, the team recommends boring and ...

This proposal recommends leveraging of mobile technology to share information about the availability of water and sanitation resources, make payments. The team recommends leveraging existing tools, business start-up packages, and ...

This proposal notes access to water and sanitation as well as limited philanthropic resources as challenges. The team recommends group-buying and micro payments, and leveraging H2Phone, a model whereby people ...

This proposal cites a lack of access to clean water, competition, and lack of community buy-in as major challenges. The team recommends a community-based model, supported by partnerships among the ...

This proposal notes insufficient funding, insufficient supply, and sustainability as major challenges. The team recommends applying a venture capital model to fund and empower entrepreneurs, such as women community leaders ...

This proposal cites a lack of information, awareness, and demand as major challenges. The team recommends developing partnerships with self help groups, leveraging the cell phone infrastructure as a communication ...

This proposal cites insufficient water and sanitation as major challenges. The team recommends implementation of a leasing model, by which community needs are met through local implementation of a necessary ...

This proposal cites challenges with aid and availability of financing due to competing interests and recommends focusing on micro-lending and increasing visibility of contributions. The team also recommends offering incentives ...

This team notes competition for shared resources, water and power scarcity, job insecurity, lack of skills, and lack of social links as major challenges. The team recommends building a water ...

This proposal notes a lack of access to safe drinking water, presence of disease, and cost as major challenges. The team recommends targeting local authorities with power and credibility to ...

This proposal notes insufficient water and financing as challenges. The team recommends a demand-based solution, chosen by the community, encouraging community ownership, participation, and sustainability through shared financing and increased ...

This proposal recommends combining water and sanitation services into micro-franchsing through a membership-based franchise model targeting youth. The team suggests offering free and required use of sanitation services to access ...

This proposal recommends promoting community advocacy and empowering community businesses, combining corporate partnerships with local solutions. The team recommends leveraging mobile devices for informational purposes and situational awareness used to ...

This proposal notes a lack of access to clean water and sanitation as major challenges. The team recommends development of an interactive game, focused on water and sanitation, to encourage ...

This proposal cites financing as a challenge to current water and sanitation solutions. The team offers the development of a community-level (and corporate) business model, encouraging partnerships and information sharing ...

This proposal notes a lack of awareness among beneficiaries as well as a lack of standardized approach and business model to be applied anywhere in the world. The team offers ...

This proposal notes insufficient demand for payment to support current water and sanitation resources. The team recommends focusing on women and children and involving strategic partners to build an Oasis ...

This proposal notes a lack of capital and general awareness as major problems. The team recommends establishing an alliance with microplace.com to enable partnership-buidling, to generate awareness, and to connect ...

This proposal recommends development of point of service technologies - micro-utilities, to serve as a point for bulk water sale, toilets, community hygiene training points, to support associated businesses.

This proposal cites lack of access to clean water and safe sanitation, as well as time spent accessing and waiting for water as major challenges. The team recommends a model ...

This proposal notes a lack of access to clean water and sanitation, insufficient capital, lack of awareness, and problems with existing solutions as major challenges. The team recommends partnering with ...

This proposal cites limited access to water and sanitation, as well as inadequate fundraising and insufficient aid flows as major challenges. The team recommends a holistic approach involving key actors ...

This proposal cites the amount of time spent on getting water and insufficient extension of the water grid as major challenges. The team recommends establishing partnerships with private industry and ...

This proposal cites waiting for water, poor water quality, and cost of water, as well as lack of facilities, unhealthy habits and disposing of personal waste and other conditions as ...

This team recommends leveraging portable technologies, enabling, and promoting buyback policies with companies.

This proposal recommends expanding into free enterprise, harnessing entrepreneurial spirit, and offering business-in-a-box training and operations materials, to establish the aquapreneur. The team suggests leveraging a water and sanitation portal ...

This proposal cites insufficient accessibility to clean water and sanitation, a lack of awareness and willingness to change, and limited financing options as major challenges. The team suggests empowering the ...

This proposal cites scalability, sustainability, efficacy, and promotion of existing solutions as major challenges. The team recommends establishing community development groups to create local demand for micro-utilities and to foster ...

This proposal recommends empowering households to take ownership of access to safe water and sanitation, and focusing on community water and sanitation ecosystem through partnerships, education, empowerment and increased entrepreneurial ...

This proposal cites insufficient water and sanitation and time spent on collecting water as major challenges. The team recommends funding water credit through water savings accounts from successful water credit ...

This proposal notes underutilization of current solutions, insufficient finances, monopoly of the water market, and limited access to water as major challenges. Through partnerships, the team recommends building a mobile ...

This proposal notes weak demand for current solutions, as well as a lack of resources and supply as major challenges. The team recommends a multi-faceted campaign involving every group in ...

This proposal notes a lack of access to clean water, time spent on getting water, lack of access to sanitation, lack of education and awareness, limited access to capital, and ...

This proposal notes inadequate resources, water quality, sanitation, and problems with existing solutions as challenges. The team recommends leveraging partnerships with existing distribution channels of the global beverage industry to ...

This proposal notes a lack of demand due to lack of education, lack of capital, insufficient availability of water, and cost of solutions as major challenges. The team recommends establishing ...

This proposal notes locating water, awareness and understanding of technologies, carrying water, awareness and education, and limited job opportunities as major challenges. The team recommends leveraging an online platform and ...

This proposal notes limited funding, limited awareness and education, lack of local solutions, lack of basic sanitation, and cost of existing solutions as major challenges. The team recommends increasing funding ...

This proposal notes availability of water, lack of a water network, cost of existing solutions, limited funding, and scalability as major challenges. The team recommends leveraging an external industry model, ...

This proposal notes cost, scalability, sustainability, and transferability of existing solutions as major challenges.The team recommends building a life center, combining water stations, toilets, shops, and services in one location ...

This proposal recommends leveraging existing telecom infrastructure and mobile technology to increase information sharing, communications, partnerships, and funding opportunities.

This proposal notes insufficient water and sanitation resources and health concerns as major challenges, and recommends development of an opportunity platform, connected by social networks, to enhance partnerships among donors, ...

This proposal notes insufficient access to safe water and sanitation as major challenges. The team recommends establishing a waterloan system and technology, along with education to encourage water reuse and ...

This proposal notes scarcity of water and sanitation, lack of financing, and lack of sustainable solutions as major challenges. The team recommends running water distribution as a community-owned business to ...

This proposal notes a lack of reliable access to water and sanitation as major challenges. The team recommends developing WaterClub, a community solution engaging local partners, community self help groups, ...

This proposal notes several challenges, including lack of funding, scalability, lack of education and awareness, cost, and accessibility of water and sanitation resources. The team recommends encouraging partnerships among all ...

This team recommends combining the Water Credit model with an educational solution, providing training to start water-focused businesses.

This proposal notes that demand is not being met fast enough, and recommends encouraging partnerships among self help groups to provide social collateral, NGOs, micro-finance institutions, and consumer goods companies ...

This team proposes leveraging self help groups to create demand water and hygiene education and to provide franchising to new entrepreneurs to encourage them to set up their own businesses. ...

This proposal notes a lack of access to water and lack of community empowerment as major challenges. The team recommends establishing subject mater experts to receive loans to construct water ...

This proposal cites a lack of access to water, as well as poor scalability and awareness of water issues as major challenges. The team recommends leveraging the WaterCapital Initiative to ...

This proposal notes scalability and sustainability of existing solutions, finding, waiting, paying, and storing water, and drinkability of water resources as major challenges. The team recommends building the Water Enterprise ...

This proposal notes availability, accessibility, lack of demand, and cost of water resources as major challenges. The team recommends empowering the community by supporting self help groups and providing financing ...

This proposal notes contamination of local water sources, difficulty with maintenance of existing facilities, and presence of water-borne diseases as major challenges. The team recommends a three-phased approach, first approaching ...

This proposal notes insufficient access to water and sanitation as well as time spent collecting these resources as major challenges. The team recommends leveraging a Water for Life Center, empowering ...

This proposal notes insufficient access and inadequate quality of water and sanitation resources, as well as cost and insufficient supply due to population growth as major challenges. The team recommends ...

This proposal notes poor quality of water and sanitation resources, time spent waiting for water, and lack of community empowerment as major challenges.The team recommends leveraging the power of the ...

This proposal notes a lack of access to water and sanitation resources as a major challenge. The team recommends locally and community built infrastructure for collecting and transforming human waste ...

This proposal notes a lack of access to water and sanitation, lack of empowerment, insufficient and inefficient allocation of funds, and insufficient scalability of current solutions as major challenges. The ...

This proposal notes a lack of access to clean water and sanitation as major challenges. The team recommends construction of a public sanitation system, encouraging the community to create its ...

This proposal notes a lack of community involvement as a major challenge.The team recommends driving local demand and ultimately sustainability through incentives, empowerment, partnership support, increased access to tools, education, ...

This proposal cites insufficient involvement of financing entities, lack of empowerment and awareness, and lack of sustainable delivery solutions as major challenges. The team recommends focusing on empowering water and ...

This proposal notes insufficient demand and cost of existing solutions as major challenges. The team recommends a market based solution to enable bite-sized income generation, or micro-tasking, to the bottom ...

This proposal cites insufficient capital resources and availability of lending opportunities as major challenges. The team recommends removing the need for scarce capital by targeting broken water points by promoting ...

This proposal cites a lack of access to clean water and sanitation, difficulty finding, accessing, waiting for, and paying for water, the inequitable distribution of water, and a lack of ...

This proposal cites a lack of access to safe water and basic sanitation, presence of water-related illness, and time spent collecting and transporting water as major challenges. The team recommends ...

This proposal focuses on increasing water supply and providing transparency in the water market by creating a "mesh network" of water suppliers and increasing communications channels between suppliers and end-users ...

This proposal recommends building Waterspotters.com, a social community network focused on water solutions, to promote crowd-funding and collaborative partnerships powered by incentivizing "water spotters" for contributions turned into profitable businesses ...

This proposal notes a lack of access to water and sanitation as well as high costs and lack of scalability in existing solutions. The team recommends building a global network ...

This proposal cites a lack of community control, economic empowerment, reinvestment of funds, and economic transparency as major challenges. The team recommends building a system of franchises, facilitated by an ...

This proposal cites limited funding sources, lack of driving force, and start up costs as major challenges. The team recommends widening funding sources through strategic partnerships with local micro-finance institutions, ...

The winner of this competition, M.Paani proposes development of women's self help groups that are established to represent the community as a whole. Working with local NGOs, the SHG take ...