| GEOSPATIAL INTELLIGENCE: HYDROLOGY |
Potable Water
Water Access for Those in Need
Lunasonde is supporting global peace and sustainability efforts through our proprietary AstroGPR™ satellite remote sensing radar that benefits humanity by locating valuable subsurface resources, especially previously unknown aquifers, and groundwater deposits.
Our approach advances the needs of the underserved around the world through the intelligence gleaned from our technologically innovative remote sensing radar satellite constellation. Gaining these insights from space into where aquifers lie deep underground has the potential to empower people around the world.
The discovery of uncharted water on Earth to provide needed water in areas suffering from physical and/or economic water scarcity, such as in Sub-Saharan Africa, could change the quality of life for millions of people suffering from a lack of potable water. Discoveries of large bodies of underground water could lead to a multitude of positive outcomes from the availability of safe drinking water where populations are at risk of death due to dehydration, to water resources for crop sustainability that will provide food in areas where there has previously been famine due to low water supplies, and even to creating new economies built around newly discovered aquifers that help build and enliven communities where none had previously existed.
AstroGPR™
Lunasonde’s satellite remote sensing AstroGPR™ is positioned to help bring peace and improve economies where struggling communities need water to live; businesses need water for production power; militaries need water to function efficiently, safely, and securely; and agriculture needs water to grow life-sustaining foods.
The data from Lunasonde's AstroGPR™ will help these groups discover and use resources better.
Water scarcity is a reality for 5.52 billion people in 186 countries around the world due to a range of naturally occurring and human-caused issues (ex., climate change, uneven distribution of available water, water pollution, lax resource management, and political tensions).As an example, 1.34 billion of those facing water insecurity live in Sub-Saharan Africa, where the water crisis is largely due to climate change. Despite the majority of the arid or semi-arid African continent holding nearly 9 percent of all freshwater resources worldwide, these water resources are unevenly distributed, leaving half of those living in Sub-Saharan Africa facing an ongoing water crisis. Lunasonde’s AstroGPR™ is envisioned to enable people to be lifted out of this water poverty through the discovery of safe, healthy drinking water. This will decrease mortality rates that are associated with a lack of safe drinking water. Higher death rates occur due to waterborne diseases from unsafe water, and malnutrition due to low levels of healthy, edible livestock and agriculture affecting 41 percent of those living in these areas.
Additional benefits could also be realized for those in economic poverty situations who engage in somewhat nomadic lifestyles to get to areas with more water availability.
A focus on the quality of life for girls and women in Sub-Saharan Africa is worth noting. According to UNICEF (2015), females in water poverty-stricken areas spend an “estimated 40 billion hours a year collecting water.” This disproportionate impact is the underpinning for entire populations of girls and women who are not being educated because of their roles in getting water to those in need in their families and communities; sometimes traversing miles every day for the needed resource. This results in a cycle of unskilled, uneducated females who are not able to get out of the situations they are in to create better, safer, more secure, and more meaningful lives for themselves and their families. By finding aquifers in their vicinities, Lunasonde partners can lift entire communities out of water poverty and economic poverty, and potentially change the lives of millions of women, children, and men.