Aimed at a market worth almost \u20ac3 billion and set to see 50% growth by 2050<\/strong>, UDUMA\u2019s drinking water service<\/strong>, designed for African rural and peri-urban zones, has been awarded the SOLAR IMPULSE EFFICIENT SOLUTION label<\/strong>. This label assesses the profitability of products, services and processes that protect the environment. \u201cObtaining this label and assistance from the people at the SOLAR IMPULSE Foundation guarantees us better access to the market<\/strong>, greater interest from investors<\/strong>, support in our advocacy work<\/strong>, feedback from sector experts<\/strong>, greater credibility<\/strong> and improved visibility<\/strong>,\u201d<\/em> says a delighted Mikael DUPUIS, Deputy Managing Director of UDUMA<\/strong>.<\/p>\n The UDUMA service is now one of 159 solutions to have been awarded the SOLAR IMPULSE EFFICIENT SOLUTION label in the \u201cSolutions for clean water and sanitation\u201d category (6th Sustainable Development Goal \u2013SDG6) with applications in Africa<\/strong>. UDUMA manages drinking water distribution points (standpipes, manual pumps, autonomous water distribution points, etc.) and provides a continuous, sustainable (10-15-year contracts) and innovative service for rural and semi-urban populations, including preventive and curative maintenance (guaranteed within 72 hours) of water distribution points, a system to track breakdowns and complaints, bacteriological and physico-chemical analysis, and a prepayment and data analysis system.<\/p>\nA sustainable service emitting 1,000 times less CO2 than the mainstream solution<\/h3>\n