Clean Water
Free drinking water plants
“And whoever gives one of these little ones even a cup of cold water because he is a disciple, truly, I say to you, he will by no means lose his reward.”
Free drinking water facilities installed in communities that have none — because in Pakistan the tap is not a safe default, and the alternative is disease.
Roughly half of Pakistan cannot rely on the water it drinks. When the Pakistan Council of Research in Water Resources tested sources across 29 cities, 61% came back unsafe. In the eastern Punjab — Lahore included — the groundwater problem is compounded by arsenic, with tens of millions of people drawing water likely to exceed the WHO limit.
The consequence is not abstract. Waterborne disease is one of the largest drivers of illness in the country, and around 27,000 children die each year of diarrhoeal disease. A filtration plant is a genuinely cheap intervention against that, and it works immediately.
So we install them and we do not charge for them. Each facility filters at source and is open to the community that hosts it. The commercial arm — Horeb Bottled Drinking Water — runs the same treatment process and sells to those who can pay; that revenue is part of what allows the free plants to stay free.
In practice.
Installed free, used free
Water facilities placed in underserved communities at no cost to them.
Filtration at source
Sediment and carbon filtration, reverse osmosis and disinfection — the same train as our commercial plants.
Funded by enterprise
Horeb’s commercial revenue underwrites the free facilities. Trade paying for charity.
Our other programmes.
This one has a price, and it is not abstract.
Sponsor a child, fund a water facility, or help buy a family out of a kiln. Tell us which and we will show you exactly where it goes.