The all-in-one system harvests, stores and then dispenses water. Custom built water dispensers – or water ‘ATMs’ – will allow communities to pay only for as much water as they need.
After meeting at a hackathon, Koigi and team mates decided to focus on the water needs of rural communities in Kenya who live in arid and semi-arid areas. Experimenting with different ways to absorb and then release water, the team is doing extensive research at several sites in Nairobi, while also installing their first commercial units in South Africa. A successful pilot run in collaboration with a children’s home in an informal Nairobi settlement will continue to be adapted and tested in an area where the need is greatest.
Majik Water's atmospheric water generator (AWG) system captures condensation from the air. Majik Water machines can produce between 20 and 1000 litres of water per day, scaling to produce up to 100,000 litres per day.
Its key revenue stream is the sale of AWG devices and their deployment in our four defined business segments. Secondary revenue comes from service contracts, which include remote device monitoring software, as well as operation and maintenance contracts.
Majik Water has 20 large-scale and seven small-scale deployments worldwide, with 80% of these in Kenya. Majik Water systems generate over 300,000 litres of clean drinking water per month and serve over 1900 people.
Because our devices are partially solar powered, they have decreased the reliance on diesel-powered water pumps and in turn, reduced greenhouse gas emissions. Improved access to clean drinking water has reduced the disease incidence thus saving on the health budgets leading to reallocation to other pressing sectors. Additionally, the community members are more productive since they get sick less often.
