In much of the developing world, the urban poor face the daily challenge of procuring water. Many cannot pay monthly bills and high upfront connection costs due to their irregular incomes.

Substitutes such as public water points, delivery services and chlorine pills, can be up to 15 times more expensive than utility piped water, and are often of low quality and unreliable. Women and girls are most affected, spending over 200 million hours fetching water every day, and 443 million school days are lost due to illness.

Global urbanisation trends exacerbate the strain on water utility infrastructure, with African cities alone growing by 5% every year. Water utilities cannot serve everyone for lack of money to invest in infrastructure to reach the urban poor.

To date, there has been no effective solution to provide safe, convenient, reliable and affordable water access to low-income homes.

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