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WASARU (Water and Sanitation in Rural and Urban Areas)

HQ 🇨🇩 DR Congo · 1 project tracked

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Kinshasa's First Open Air Sensors Go Up, School by School

Clean Air

🇨🇩 DR Congo

In a megacity of more than 17 million people with almost no public air data, a Congolese sanitation NGO is installing the country's only open real-time PM2.5 network and taking the readings into classrooms.

10monitorsLow-cost PM2.5 monitors deployed in Kinshasa
4schoolsSchools in air-pollution outreach
17MpeopleKinshasa residents the network aims to serve
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