User fees for treated water are used to repay loans and to cover the expenses of operating and maintaining the equipment and facility. WaterHealth hires members of the communities we serve to conduct the day-to-day maintenance of these “micro-utilities,” thus creating employment and building capacity, as well as generating entrepreneurial opportunities for local residents to provide related services, such as sales and distribution of the purified water to outlying areas.

And because the facilities are owned by the communities in which they are installed, the user fees become attractive sources of revenue for the community after loans have been repaid.