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“Weekly, we have five installations, and we get excited because we get to go to every school, and every school is different,” says Phan Viet Dung, Gravity Water’s project manager in Hòa Bình, who grew up in the province. “Transportation, the distance among the schools, and the conditions of the infrastructure are all so different. So at some schools, they lack tools, and in others, the water supply is unstable. We have to make sure that it doesn’t matter if the water source is stable or unstable — the school has clean water available all the time.”

Beyond Hòa Bình, Gravity Water has projects around the world to further scale its rainwater harvesting technology as a climate-resilient solution for schools and the most vulnerable communities. In Nepal, its systems are providing over 60 communities in the Kathmandu Valley with access to clean water. In Taipei, Taiwan, the organization is helping 48 schools and the city run its operations off rainwater. In Malaysia, Gravity Water’s technology is providing another 50 schools access to safe drinking water. And in Mexico, it is partnering with Isla Urbana, a local rainwater harvesting company that builds urban, rural, and school rain systems. With each of these projects, Gravity Water is collecting real-time data to measure impact and monitor the effectiveness of its system.

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