Saving footprints
Village Water’s work transforms daily life.
But while helping provide communities in the hardest to reach parts of the world with their basic right to safe water, we’re also saving carbon footprints by reducing their need to boil water.
Our projects have saved an estimated 240,953 tonnes of CO2 emissions in the communities we supported in 2020. And it’s funded by corporations who voluntarily ‘offset’ their own energy use by funding projects like ours through CO2 Balance.
But are we letting organisations with high CO2 footprints off the hook? What impact will our work have when vast amounts of CO2 are still released from developed nations around the world?
Given the urgency of the climate crisis, it may seem disheartening that organisations and governments won’t cut their emissions or design new policies fast enough. Yet CO2 Balance has found that organisations willing to pay to offset their carbon footprint, are also more aware and willing to put in place good policies that reduce their own emissions over organisations not interested in offsetting at all.
While keeping the pressure on the largest CO2 emitting organisations to take more and more responsibility, our work to improve access to safe water continues, not only bringing immediate impact to people lives; providing basic safe water, cutting the transmission of waterborne diseases significantly, reducing the workload of thousands of women and girls, but also saving carbon footprints in the process.
