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Profit for Good: Carbon Credits Bring Clean Water to Rural Kenya
2:32 pm in africa, Business & Politics, carbon emissions, carbon offsets, deforestation, drinking water, kenya by TreeHugger
Photo: Rachel Cernansky
I spent part of last month walking from home to home in Kagamega, Kenya, a mostly-rural region known for one of the last remaining tracts of the Congolese forest belt. It is not dissimilar to so much of the developing world, however, in its lack of access to clean water, which is available to about 15 percent of homes in rural areas, according to Francis Odhiambo, Provincial Public Health Officer for the region.
I was in Kakamega with the Carbon for Water campaign, run by Vestergaard Frandsen, the company behind the LifeStraw water filter and o...Read the full story on TreeHugger
After REDD project, methane recapture and landfills amounted to the greatest percentage of voluntary carbon offset projects. Photo: 
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