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<!-- Owini International Ltd is an international company which promotes water and sanitation projects that make a real difference in the lives of millions.

Owini provides integrated solutions for Water and Wastewater, operating in the Agriculture, Municipal (Urban & Rural) and Industrial sectors and brings cutting-edge technology by collaborating with various strategic partners, among them, Amiad, Odis, Nirosoft, Hydrofoglia, GES, IDE, etc.

Owini’s projects
The impact of Owini’s projects are extensive and international
 * Achieve universal and equitable access to safe and affordable drinking water for all;
 * Clean and safe drinking water supplied permanently;
 * Hundreds of thousands of people living in the rural villages and peri-urban neighbourhoods served by Water for All supply systems;
 * Long term, immediate effect;
 * Impacts on consumers health and improves people lives;
 * Leisure culture (namely women and children, for having more free time) start showing in a month time period from completion of works in each community. Reduces walking distance and time spent sourcing water, enabling the community to have more free time to devote to other values – creating activities and children to attend school.
 * Reduces the likelihood of disease caused by contaminated water;
 * Prevents deaths from water pollution;
 * Better health, better housework management and childcare;
 * Additional free time to increase income;
 * Increase in number of jobs in the external circles (maintenance personnel, guards).

Owini is ISO certified (since 1/2014) in multiple standards with different management systems consolidating their requirements to create a robust integrated management system, manual and procedures: ISO 9001 (Quality); ISO 14001 (environmental); ISO 45001 (Occupational Health & Safety).

Water For All project
In Water For All project of Owini there were several Impact Facts:
 * Water supply systems were installed in 214 villages in 7 provinces
 * Access to drinking water, for more than one million of inhabitants
 * 764 local operators trained for operation and maintenance of the systems;
 * Around 82 community awareness campaigns in the 7 provinces. Flyers distribution and educational theatre to raise awareness and instruct the population on how to use clean water and take care of the systems;
 * Confirmed trend of decrease of water-borne diarrheal diseases and skin infections during the WFA operational periods - over 20% in Kwanza Sul (province inquired);
 * Women inquired in the villages confirm to perform new income generating activities with clean water (12%) and income increase of their regular activities due to time saved from not walking far to fetch water.

Owini and the community
Water supply to a remote area in Angola that has been suffering from a severe drought for several years. Water supply in an innovative way of desalination plant based on energy from solar panels.