Life needs water


Bringing Clean Water To Everyone

Our Mission


Life Needs Water is a non-profit organization that started in 2015. Our mission is to make water more available around the world. Our solar pump approach makes clean water, sanitation and hygiene available for the poor and marginalized. In addition, our solar pumps provide people in remote areas with cellphone charging stations and Wifi hotspots. These services together help in uplifting people’s livelihoods.

Since 2015, we have empowered:

  • Over 100,000 people with clean water
  • Over 50,000 people with hygiene
  • Over 30,000 people with sanitation
  • Over 10,000 households with power

With your help we can continue to empower many more.

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The Water Crisis


Water is critical for sustainable and socio-economic development, energy and food production, healthy ecosystems and human survival. Water scarcity is made worse by the boom in global population. The population boom results in competition for water between commercial entities and the poor communities. Women and girls must have access to clean, private sanitation facilities for dignity and safety.

At the human level, water cannot be seen in isolation from sanitation. Together, they are vital for reducing the global burden of disease and improving the health, education and economic productivity of populations. Water-related Numbers:

  • 2.1 billion people lack access to safely drinking water
  • 340,000 children under five die every year from diarrhea diseases
  • Water scarcity already affects four out of every 10 people
  • 80% of wastewater flows back into the ecosystem without being treated or reused
  • Roughly 75% of all industrial water withdrawals are used for energy production

We have worked with communities in Tanzania, Kenya, Somalia, Namibia, Ghana, and Uganda. We train local youth to maintain and management hardware and projects. Before we leave a community, we make sure there are trained local people in areas of finance, solar pump repairs, WiFi resets, entrepreneurship skills, and community organization. We do this because we care, and we want local people to be self-sustaining, so they can help neighboring communities.

We also work with local and international partners to ensure capacity and skills are developed at a local level. Partners include:


  • Pumpmakers
  • Local non-government organizations
  • Rural Health Extension Officers
  • Local and national government departments

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