SPOTLIGHT: - ACCELERATING PROGRESS TOWARD FINANCIAL SUSTAINABILITY - WATER SERVICES LADDER

The performance of our four pilot stations demonstrates that this scale plan has the potential to break even in four years and generate $284K in surplus in Year 5 across a portfolio of 122 stations. [...] CLOSING THE GAP AND ACHIEVING FINANCIAL SUSTAINABILITY Safe Water Network Ghana tests innovations that can enhance the efficiency of our stations and provide better service to customers. [...] We also direct resources to increase the number of users and the volume of water they consume at all stations. [...] Moreover, first adopters often bore the bulk of the financial burden by paying for the full extension of the pipeline to their household, whereas later adopters could then connect their pipe to the extension already in place. [...] This plan will increase the total number of stations to 122 in Year 5 and allow our portfolio to cover full sustainability costs by Year 4.