DelAgua Group

DelAgua is a multidisciplinary organisation focused on transforming lives and creating self-sustaining communities around the world. The DelAgua kit enables field workers to test water quality in remote and isolated situations and in circumstances where there is no access to a water testing laboratory. Since its development in 1985, the kit has been used by all the major International NGOs and other aid agencies. In 2006, The University of Surrey and other investors founded DelAgua Water Testing Limited to take over the management of the DelAgua organisation. Whilst DelAgua continues to supply water testing equipment, the business has grown and we now work with many major aid agencies, governments and academic institutions in more than 150 countries globally, delivering sustainable, long-term social interventions. DelAgua are distributing 600,000 advanced water filters and 600,000 high efficiency cookstoves to the poorest 30% of households in Rwanda, about 3 million people. The project is providing households with a ready supply of clean drinking water and an improved efficient means of cooking. Working with the Rwandan Ministry of Health and using local Community Health Workers to provide health education and training, the project enables communities to become self-supporting by providing them with the necessary technology and know-how.