Zambezi water security

Solar-powered boreholes, safe storage and flood protection, led with hydrologists Acacia Water.

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Why this project.

The Zambezi region floods in the wet season and runs short of safe drinking water in the dry one. Both problems are about where the water is, not how much of it there is.

Electriffy’s solar-and-storage programme pays for boreholes driven by that same solar power, safe storage, and protection against the flooding. The hydrologists at Acacia Water decide where those go.

The commitment is that the programme leaves its neighbours measurably better off, and that the measuring is done by somebody other than the company making the claim.

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Every partner has a landscape.Every landscape has a plan.

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Zuid-Kennemerland · NL

Dune Gardens (Duintuinen)

Thousands of gardens along the dune edge become part of the national park: de-paved, native, pesticide-free. Dune biodiversity moves outward, the neighbourhood cools, and the drinking-water aquifer stays clean.

4.0×

Every euro Van Baarsen invests becomes four in the field

Of qualifying contract value, fixed at contract level

Noord-Holland · NL

Nature-inclusive production sites

Fenced utility ground becomes living habitat, without compromising drinking-water safety.

Velserbroek · NL

Velserbroek head office

Lawns turn into flowering grassland. A wadi makes the water mission visible to everyone.

Noord-Holland · NL

Green flowering pipeline strips

Mown utility grass becomes a connected flowering corridor, together with the municipalities.

Almelo & Overijssel · NL

Agroforestry & landscape restoration

Hedgerows, alley crops and native trees across the region's farms, co-designed with Wageningen University.

Zambezi Region · Namibia