Solar Safe Water System

SSWS refers to the Solar Safe Water System, it is a project of FEAT Africa that distribute Solar Water Purifiers to Women-Led households in Koboko, Uganda. Currently; we are distributing Solvatten Solar water purifiers that are produced in Sweden.

Solvatten is a sun-powered water solution that helps the user have safe, heated water at home. Solvatten is produced in Sweden and sold to distributors and organizations around the world. There are more than 220,000 people using SOLVATTEN® in the world today.

SOLVATTEN® is a personal water heater and water treatment tool and should only be used for water treatment and water heating.

The stated microbiological and longevity performance of SOLVATTEN® is conditioned under standard laboratory test conditions, (BioVir Lab, Cal US, 2014), and meets US EPA drinking water standards. SOLVATTEN® is a highly protective technology treating contaminated water for bacteria, viruses and protozoa. SOLVATTEN® is 99.99999% effective for treating E-coli., 99.9999% effective for treating rotavirus, and 99.999% effective for treating cryptosporidium.

The effectiveness of SOLVATTEN® may be limited by environmental or hygiene conditions that could contribute to the recontamination of water after it has been treated according to the instructions. These conditions include but are not limited to:

  • Using water from SOLVATTEN® with dirty and bacterial contaminated hands.
  • Storage of treated water in contaminated containers.
  • Treatment of water with high turbidity (> 40NTU) without pre-filtering the water.

By using SOLVATTEN®, users accept and agree to the term and conditions of the user instructions and the Disclaimer (1.2) 2016.