Background & challenges

Supply drinking water and sanitary facilities to fishing huts in the Danube Delta, without altering the environment.

The Danube Delta is Europe's best-preserved protected natural area. It stretches across several countries, opening onto the Black Sea in Romania. It is a vast expanse of wetlands with lakes, ponds, streams and channels. The area is divided into natural zones where economic activities are prohibited, ecological rehabilitation zones, authorized economic activity zones and buffer zones for eco-tourism.

Because of its ecological importance, the economic and social challenges facing the region call for a specific sustainable development strategy.
Access to drinking water and sanitation facilities is therefore a real development challenge and determines the sustainability of economic activities (small-scale fishing) and eco-tourism.

The project aims to equip the area with access to drinking water and a dry toilet cubicle, without these facilities having an impact on the environment, or constituting visual pollution. InovaYa's task is to design and install a water purification system that operates as a low-tech system (ram pump, no electricity on site), uses no consumables and discharges no chemicals into the environment.

It will thus meet minimum sanitary standards, improving the living and working conditions of the fishermen. It's also a good way of improving visiting conditions for tourists.