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KERRion Ground Water Systems: Community Well Station (CWS), Agriculture Well Station (AWS)

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Basins: --
Project SDGs:
Includes Sustainable Development Goals from the project and its locations.
Sustainable Agriculture (SDG 2.4)
Increase Access to Water, Sanitation, Hygiene (SDG 6.1 & 6.2)
Water Quality (SDG 6.3)
Water Use Efficiency (SDG 6.4)
Integrated Water Resource Management (SDG 6.5)
Renewable energy (SDG 7.2)
Energy efficiency (SDG 7.3)
Sustainable Production (SDG 12.4)
Project Tags:
Includes tags from the project and its locations.
Groundwater
Irrigation Management and Technology
Domestic Wastewater
Sanitation
Hygiene
Safe, Affordable Water
Progress to Date: As a start-up organization, KERRion has researched technologies for water filtration, bacteria detection in water, Solar output, Electrolysis (changing the state of water), Storage of bacteria free water (mockup design) and deep well water pumps. 1) Levels of bacteria in water 2) Solar output 3) Total gallons of bacteria free water delivered monthly.
Services Needed: Policy advocacy
Financial support
Information technology (IT) support
Project management
Stakeholder engagement & facilitation
Desired Partners: Business
Business Association
Government
NGO / Civil Society
UN Entity
Social Enterprise
Investor
Financial Institution
Language: English
Start & End Dates: Oct. 01, 2008  »  Ongoing
Project Website: cleandrink.ca
Contextual Condition(s): PHYSICAL: Inadequate access to drinking water services, PHYSICAL: Inadequate access to sanitation services, PHYSICAL: Inadequate access to hygiene services
Additional Benefits: Long-term partnership(s) created, Raised awareness of challenges among water users
Beneficiaries: Agricultural growers, Local communities / domestic users
Planning & Implementation Time: More than 3 years
Financial Resources: Between $1,000 - $10,000 USD
Primary Funding Source: private
Project Challenges: RESOURCES: Lack of financial resources, RESOURCES: Lack of technical resources, OUTCOMES: Limited contribution to sustainable water management
Project Source: User
Profile Completion: 90%

Project Overview

KERRion has invented the Community Well Station (CWS) and the Agriculture Well Station (AWS). The CWS and AWS are solar powered well stations. The CWS delivers highly filtered, bacteria free alkaline groundwater to communities for consumption, sanitation and hygiene. The AWS delivers highly filtered, bacteria free acidic groundwater to communities for use in Agriculture irrigation. The initial project focuses on The Southern African Development Communities that depend on gro…

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KERRion has invented the Community Well Station (CWS) and the Agriculture Well Station (AWS). The CWS and AWS are solar powered well stations. The CWS delivers highly filtered, bacteria free alkaline groundwater to communities for consumption, sanitation and hygiene. The AWS delivers highly filtered, bacteria free acidic groundwater to communities for use in Agriculture irrigation. The initial project focuses on The Southern African Development Communities that depend on groundwater for WASH and Agricultural sustainment.

KERRion positions itself to be a world leader in managed ground water systems. Deliverig clean bacteria free water to communities, fostering community health, prosperity, and agricultural irrigation.

KERRion plans to;

Create strategic partnerships eith Government and Non-Government Agencies to combine resources, expertise, and customer bases to achieve mutual goals.

Government / Non-Government Agencies:

  • The Southern African Development Community (SADC)
  • The Ghanaian Water Fund – IBRD, IDA
  • The World Bank Group – IBRD, IDA
  • United Nations Development Programme
  • Stockholm International Water Institute (SIWI)
  • Water Governance Facility

Build strategic partnerships with Key Technology Vendors in the development of the KERRion CWS and AWS systems.

  1. The development of Disruptive groundwater Technologies:
  2. Implementing highly performaing Solar Technologies
  3. Implementing Hollow-fiber technology membrane filters capable of highly filtering groundwater
  4. Implementing Electrolysis technology to eliminate bacteria and change the state of the groundwater. Acidic Water is produced for use in Agriculture irrigation. Alkaline Water - Electrolyzed Reduced Water (ERW) is produced for consumption, sanitation and hygiene (WASH).
  5. Converting existing groundwater well systems (boreholes) to a KERRion Community Well Station (CWS), and the Agriculture Well Station (AWS) systems. Develop and implement the next generation of well water solutions designed to deliver clean water to African Communities that depend on ground water.

To date KERRion has designed a prototype moc-up of the CWS and AWS. The functional requirents, focused on community use of water, were documented, incuding legislative compliance for reporting bacteria content in ground water.

Researh to date has included the study of key Aquifer focused technology Vendor products, Government and Non-Government Agencies and Information Technology vendors.

KEY focused vendors and their solutions for the CWS and AWS solutions:

SBT BactoBox, Bacteria Measurements: Regulatory reporting on Aquifer (ground water) Bacteria measurements.

  • SBT is the developer of proprietary bacteria measurement technology. The BactoBox employs a new approach to bacteria measurements called impedance flow cytometry. A microfluidic flow cell detects and counts bacteria in samples based on the electrical properties of the bacteria.

Solartech: Solartech is the leading solution provider for global solar and water conservancy systems. The Solartech deep well water solar pump, solar pumping inverters and solar grid inverters are instrumental in extracting aquifer water for the operation of the CWS and AWS well solutions.

FIBRACAST: The global innovator and manufacturer of the Advanced MBR Membrane, FibrePlateTM

  • The FibrePlate membrane is a tight ultrafilter with a nominal pore size smaller than 0.04 microns. This means that the membranes do not only remove Protozoa and bacteria that are much bigger than the pores, but also a large number of viruses since many viral species are larger than the pores. This makes the FibrePlate membranes particularly efficient for water reuse applications.

EMCO TECH: Developer of patented platinum bonded titanium electrodes

  • The electrodes are used to change the state of the water by applying electrolysis.

Developer of the DARC (Double Automatic Reverse Cleaning system)

  • The DARC is used to clean the electrodes of scaling.

Custome Analytics and Key Performance Indicators:

  • Solar Asset Monitoring
  • DATA COLLECTION AND ANALYSIS

o Supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA)

o Data Acquisition Systems) (DAS)

  • CUSTOMIZED DATA DASHBOARDS

o Regimented, predictable, easy-to-understand reports

o Proactive recommendations on how to improve the performance

  • PERFORMANCE ANALYTICS

o Using SCADA, along with OEM design specs, to view past asset output data and establish proper performance benchmarks.

Information Technology Partnerships

  • Atlassian – Business productivity software Products

Confluence - (cloud)

Confluence is a team workspace where knowledge and collaboration meet. Dynamic pages give your team a place to create, capture, and collaborate on any project or idea. Spaces help your team structure, organize, and share work, so every team member has visibility into institutional knowledge and access to the information they need to do their best work.

Microsoft Corporation - Business Applications

  • Microsoft 365 Office - (cloud)
  • Dynamics 365 CRM - (cloud)
  • Microsoft Teams - (cloud)

o Microsoft Teams is a proprietary business communication platform offering workspace chat and videoconferencing, file storage, and application integration.

  • Azure Services

o VPN Gateway

o SQL Database(s) - (cloud)

  • CISCO Networks

Unintended Consequences

A lack of understanding of how to move forward has stalled further development of the project. This forum offers visibility that was not previously available. Thank you.

Basin and/or Contextual Conditions: PHYSICAL: Inadequate access to drinking water services, PHYSICAL: Inadequate access to sanitation services, PHYSICAL: Inadequate access to hygiene services
Project Benefits: Long-term partnership(s) created, Raised awareness of challenges among water users
Indirect or Direct Beneficiaries: Agricultural growers, Local communities / domestic users
Months & Implementing: More than 3 years
Financial Resources: Between $1,000 - $10,000 USD
Primary Funding Source: Private foundation
Challenges: RESOURCES: Lack of financial resources, RESOURCES: Lack of technical resources, OUTCOMES: Limited contribution to sustainable water management

Missed Opportunities

KERRion is a start-up organization. In order to address WASH, KERRion seeks investment from Government, Non-Government, Information Technology, and Product partners and vendors.

Unintended Consequences

A lack of understanding of how to move forward has stalled further development of the project. This forum offers visibility that was not previously available. Thank you.

Project Narrative

KERRion has invented the Community Well Station (CWS) and the Agriculture Well Station (AWS).   The CWS and AWS are solar powered well stations.  The CWS delivers highly filtered, bacteria free alkaline groundwater to communities for consumption, sanitation and hygiene.  The AWS delivers highly filtered, bacteria free acidic groundwater to communities for use in Agriculture irrigation.  The initial project focuses on The Southern African Development Communities that depend on groundwater for WASH and Agricultural sustainment.

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Shervington Kerr
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