SweetSense Uses IoT to Improve Access to Safe Water in Developing Countries CASE STUDY Building on the success of Gates Foundation funded projects, companies are ramping up water activities in East Africa in order to develop a sensor- enabled water service, as well as operations and management systems, for county governments and local water service providers. Case in Point: SweetSense, Inc. In 2015, social enterprise startup SweetSense, Inc., joined an innovative $35 million USAID public-private partnership led by Millennium Water Alliance (consisting of some of the largest international non-government organizations [NGOs] and government offices) to increase the average water coverage rate of five northern counties in Kenya from 37% to 50%, reaching a million people.

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