The water crisis in Africa is particularly acute. Walter North, senior deputy assistant administrator for Africa at the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) said that the United States is working with African partners to meet U.N. Millennium Development Goal (MDG) targets set to reduce the number of people without access to clean water by half by 2015. The initial agreement with Ecocleansol will have a minimum order requirement of one thousand (1,000) windmills in order to maintain exclusivity. The first major order of windmills is expected shortly.
Nick Laroche, President and CEO of Dakshidin Corporation, stated, "The initial order of one thousand windmills is just the beginning. The fact that 1 in 5 people in Africa do not have access to clean drinking water shows that the market for our windmills in this region is in the hundreds of thousands! 2.6 billion people in the world lack access to improved sanitation."
