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+61 488 009766 [email protected] [email protected]

Level 4, 33 Barrack Street, Perth. Western Australia

BURKINA FASO

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PREAMBLE AAAW’s potable AquAs water mitigation unit for urban and peri-urban communities is the right product at the right time, with Arsenic killing thousands in places like Cambodia and making thousands more very ill. The millions of dollars being spent on hospitals, medication and the massive loss of productivity make this situation urgent, with moneys saved on health costs funding the alleviation effort. The total success of this project could rest with the use of a phone app. In Asia there is a very small banking base but a very high mobile phone ownership.

THE CONVENIENCE OF DELIVERY. Its not so much about the product as it is about the delivery. Even if you have the very best product it is nothing without a clean efficient conveyance. This technology-based mitigation of arsenic is holistic in nature:

• Timing of the execution, funding and appreciation of the product is essential to success. Delivering too a solid base of Government, Local Councils, Community Based Organisations (CBO) delivered through Independent Providers (IP) ensures a risk free implementation.

• Installation of the plant to be supervised by appointed Project Management, combining this with in country staff training completes a sustainable outcome. Highly visible branding supported by trained, uniformed staff is essential in creating confidence in the projects success.

THE DELIVERY The AAAW delivery is based upon a combination of population, tubewell placement and distance. With the currant tube wells being designed to serve only 50 people each, it is proposed the new delivery using less tubewells will cater for many more people mainly through water kiosks or Independent Providers.

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These original tubewells came at a cost of approximately US $100 each. The recommended mitigation cost with this new innovative delivery, will reduce the fiscal burden in retrofitting less tubewells. The use of IP’s will also create employment delivering to the door.

COMMUNITY BASED ORGANISATIONS CBO’s are the crux of the operation, selecting responsible community members to administer and recruit operators. History suggests women, the traditional providers and household administrators are best suited for community implementation. The need for CBO’s to promote the need and supply with price control at the lower end. By placing a value on the water CBO’s are guaranteed an income assuring operation and maintenance sustainability.

PROMOTION The local and world wide favourite social media implementer Facebook is a perfect marketing tool allowing providers to follow changing behaviours. Local group activity would lead to promotion and profits within the communities, funding clinics and promoting education. By investigating and taking practices learnt, the provision becomes fit to purpose, increasing incomes through added delivery competence. By adding these layers of proficiency, adjustments can be made promoting and widening the scope of the provision.

PAYMENTS The probable lack of credit facility (cards) can be replaced by payment through mobile phones. The development of an appropriate app, attending to these payments directed into both CBO’s and Operation accounts. This reduces risk and assures sustainable uninterrupted delivery. With this put and pay option paying an interest free loan over 5 years assures future credit is available for the inevitable expansion, allowing the CBO’s to pursue new boundaries.

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SUMMARY AAAW insist we should not wait for opportunities but need to actively pursue them. Jobs and growth are both eco-friendly, giving back to the community through group activity leads to innovation through collaboration, with agility and ability to change while empowering communities. Ultimately its not only about the water its about the customer. Pursuing a vertical strategy, expanding the business operations into different steps on the same delivery path. Providing consumers with the necessary tools to evaluate and directly make purchases. As verticals better enable consumers, CBO’s need to ensure they have the framework in place to capture these new opportunities. The citizens have a deep connection and long-term need for water, which makes the customer service relationship especially critical. Reducing costs by improving efficiencies while decreasing risk is imperative, by relying on established expertise and economies of scale. With the operation and maintenance being carried out on all plant through an affiliated company, on behalf of the owner. The citizens have a deep connection and long-term need for water, which makes the customer service relationship especially critical. Reducing costs by improving efficiencies while decreasing risk is imperative, by relying on established expertise and economies of scale. With the operation and maintenance being carried out on all plant through an affiliated company, on behalf of the owner.

but is also of great importance in Europe, where many regions are affected by elevated arsenic concentrations (i.e., Greece, Hungary, Romania, Croatia, Serbia, Turkey, Spain). The situation is of particular concern in some regions of eastern and south-eastern Europe where smaller communities depend on local ground water sources that are polluted with arsenic higher than 10 μg/L.

BURKINA FASO

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We present a comprehensive dataset of arsenic concentrations from drinking water wells in rural Burkina Faso (n = 1498), of which 14.6% are above 10 μg/L. Bedrock composed of schists and volcanic rocks of the Birimian formation, potentially harbouring arsenic-containing sulphide minerals, has the highest probability of yielding groundwater arsenic concentrations N10 μg/L. Combined with population density estimates, the arsenic prediction models indicate that ~560,000 people are potentially exposed to arsenic-contaminated groundwater in Burkina Faso. Arsenic is by far the contaminant of greatest concern, with 9.6% of samples above the WHO and national guideline value of 10 μg/L. Arsenic speciation measurements were carried out on few samples (n = 31) from the Province of Balé, about 180 km south-west of Ouagadougou and show that arsenic is predominantly present as As(V), confirming the findings of Smedley et al. (2007). The complete arsenic concentration dataset of 1498 measurements demonstrates that elevated levels of arsenic in groundwater are found in numerous provinces (Fig. 1, Table 1) and are not restricted to north- ern Burkina Faso where most previous studies were carried out (Barro-Traoré et al., 2008; Smedley et al., 2007; Somé et al., 2012). Of all 1498 collected measurements, 14.6% contained arsenic concentra- tions above the national and WHO guideline value of 10 μg/L and 2.3% above 50 μg/L. 84% of elevated arsenic concentrations (those above 10 μg/L) fall into the range of 10–50 μg/L, and very high concentrations (above 50 μg/L), which are especially relevant to people's health, are much less frequent.

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Some success and encouraging results have already been seen in Burkina Faso with the installation of community-scale arsenic treatment filters by 2iE-Fondation based on commercially available iron-hydroxide filter materials, though this is not yet widespread (Ouedraogo, 2016). The installation of a filter needs careful operation and maintenance, trained local staff, frequent water quality monitoring, replacement of filter ma- terial when saturated, and, above all, the necessary funding for sustainable, long-term operation.

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The arsenic hazard model generated may also be relevant in Burkina Faso's neighboring countries, as the volcanites and volcano-sedimentary schists of the Birimian formation, which proved to be the most re- liable predictor for high arsenic, also cover large areas of Ghana, the Ivory Coast, Mali, Niger and Benin.

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Australia Asia Africa Water (AAAW)

AquAs/HP The innovative AquAs/HP is the safe alternative, specifically designed for attaching to World Bank Tubewell installations in Cambodia. This sustainable AquAs/HP unit has remote monitoring built in alerting to misuse and failure guaranteeing uninterrupted delivery. The technology built into the AquAs/HP unit is considerably cheaper than alternatives and does not require the power of reverse osmosis operation. The AquAs/HP unit’s design uses ground-breaking technology and is the culmination of a tireless effort by a committed and energetic team of concerned people.

AquAs/Auto The AquAs/Auto is a larger unit utalising solar energy for bore pump supply and treatment. The technology built into the AquAs/Auto unit is considerably cheaper than alternatives and does not require the power of reverse osmosis operation. The AquAs/Auto unit’s design uses ground-breaking technology and is the culmination of a tireless effort by a committed and energetic team of concerned people.

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AAAW Delivering:

• Innovative and dignified design.

• Reduction of Arsenic and other Heavy Metals.

• Resource and Energy innovations.

• Reduces Health Care costs.

• Increases productivity

• Investment Relevance

• Revenue generating.

• Community involvement in design and management

AAAW COMPLIANCE When utalising our proprietary Oxidation Catalytic material chlorination is essential. The breakpoint for chlorination in the process is such that the “free chlorine” stays within the water as it leaves the unit. This “free chlorine” sterilising the water and protecting from possible unsterile handling of the water from the unit.

We meet WHO Edition 4 standards for water sterilisation

.

Before and after AquAs treatment

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AAAW Consultancy Australia Asia Africa Water has established itself as the prime contender for providing water and wastewater consultancy. Australia Asia Africa Water helps clients to identify the very root of the problem and then decide the best possible treatment, which will be efficient as well as economically feasible. Australia Asia Africa Water never shies away from providing its expertise to its clients from identifying the problem to addressing it by conducting extensive research, designing the perfect solution with execution.

AAAW Maintenance & Analysis The quality of the product sells itself, but it’s the service that wins a client’s loyalty. Australia Asia Africa Water understands the importance of providing the desired standards of maintenance required to extend the life of its AquAs/HP units and maximise delivery. Australia Asia Africa Water has a full range of maintenance services including comprehensive and non-comprehensive annual maintenance

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contracts. Australia Asia Africa Water also provides on-site training to operators to ensure smooth running of the AquAs/HP units. Australia Asia Africa Water trains a highly experienced service team.

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The success of water supply intervention is firstly measured in the reduction of morbidity and mortality and secondly in terms of cost with implementation through institutional structures. Medical evidence makes it clear that the single most important action is to remove exposure to arsenic, and that delay will result in increased disease and death.

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Australia Asia Africa Water Pty Ltd. (AAAW)

• WE NOT ONLY LESSEN ARSENIC WE REMOVE IT • Completely fit-to-purpose. • Work with and train community members. • We don't just claim to remove arsenic like others we do. Bettering WHO required

standards. • We seamlessly fit to existing infrastructure. • We not only supply we don't sign of until the units are working to our

specification. • We undertake Operation and Management supervision. • We remove the arsenic from site not dumping in onto the ground for

recontamination. • We are capable so scaling up to very large deliveries.

AquAs Units Each unit is capable of 16,000 litres per day, or 400 families (WHO recommend 40 litres per day per house). COMPARATIVE DELIVERIES

UNIT HOUSES 40 litres each

day

COST PER

HOUSE

COST TOTAL INVEST

DELIVERS As

**AquAs HP 400 $ 12 $ 4,800 0 – 0.0012 ppm AquAs Auto 400 $35 $17,500 0 – 0.0012 ppm SONO 1 $35 $7,875 ^ 10 ppm ** a lower cost per person served, with faster implementation.

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The AquAs Arsenic Treatment Plant The AquAs units are high quality water treatment plant made from the best components and manufactured meeting world industry standards. The AquAs units also meet and better stringent guidelines set by the WHO and are widely in demand in domestic as well as foreign markets. Characteristics:

• Highest quality build. • Easy to install • Durable • Ease of operation. • Very low power consumption. • Life improved by diligent service.

Other heavy metals removed:

• Copper • Zinc • Nickel • Lead • Tin • Cadmium • Iron • Mercury • Magnesium

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• Chromium

TRANSFORMING THE GLOBAL WATER CRISIS INTO ENTREPRENEURIAL OPPORTUNITY. Donors can’t keep throwing new money at old problems. Many have argued that this traditional means of funding aid work and development projects—relying on donors—has become staid or, worse, potentially counterproductive and even dangerous. The purpose of non-governmental organizations (NGO) is to reduce poverty in a region of a particular country. If this succeeds, the donors will likely be thrilled— and then cut your funding. Donor funds only flow when the public eye is on an issue but can run dry when the camera is off—as it usually is in the developing world. Misappropriated funding became a problem and got so bad that in the 1980s, funding was going backwards—people were literally getting poorer. Private investment has no choice but to be a model when it comes to finances—and in showing results, exposed in the private sector has to be very transparent about what they are doing. This transparency leads to supply at affordable prices not having to support extraneous needs, the sales also supporting the cost of health education as well as monitoring and maintenance for the contracted term giving sustainability. Constant innovation, is what sets AAAW and the AquAs units apart in the developing world. Private financiers like AAAW bearing the role that NGOs usually take for financing and developing projects. Proving that development and provision work can be profitable and that innovators in the private sector can take up the responsibility that represents an opportunity for companies to come in and really make a big difference.” Private providers like AAAW having a vested interest in the sustainability of their plant and the results their equipment provides.

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Water resource and environmental impacts Effective water-supply solutions are underpinned by sound understanding of the environment of the region. Most, if not all, interventions for arsenic mitigation should have overall positive environmental outcomes due to their impact on health. However, potential negative impacts can be foreseen and should be avoided or minimised. The potential impacts can be considered in terms of the type of intervention.

Groundwater treatment: • A principal issue is to ensure the safe disposal of As-rich wastes; Liquid wastes

are challenging and require a mature waste-management for proper disposal. • Provided that waste is safely disposed of, treatment can have a positive impact by

contributing to cleanup of the aquifer; • Some household treatment systems remove arsenic but produce such low volumes

of water that they are insufficient for good personal hygiene

Social considerations The mitigation option selected should be the most socially acceptable option that is economically and technically feasible for the particular site. This requires an understanding of the community, its technical capability and, critically, its appreciation of the implications of arsenic to the community. Successfully adopting a new technology depends on the operation and maintenance implications, the ability to organise user groups and the ability and willingness to pay. As was clear from the case histories, without an aware and informed population, it is extremely difficult to implement a new water supply and achieve real health benefits. The design process should explicitly target the most disadvantaged groups to ensure that benefits do not accrue preferentially to the wealthiest members of the community. Social surveys should target women and less-educated members of the community whose voices are not easily heard in public meetings.