A new film by Evan Abramson and Carmen Elsa Lopez looks at the world's first carbon financed water scheme. Vestergaard Frandsen, a company that makes products to prevent disease in the developing world, shows how providing safe drinking water while cutting more than 2 million tons of carbon emissions a year is good business.
In the “Carbon for Water” program, residents in Kenya who receive LifeStraw® Family water filters will no longer have to treat water by boiling it using wood, which generate greenhouse gases. This behavioral change is expected to produce more than two million tons of carbon emission reductions annually.
Learn more at: www.carbonforwater.com
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