Murendeni Mafumo
Founder and CEO, Kusini Water
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“I believe all communities can thrive if they have sustainable access to clean water.”
Murendeni Mafumo is the founder and CEO of Kusini Water, a social enterprise committed to ensuring equitable access to clean drinking water and sanitation for communities in the African continent. To date, Kusini Water has given clean water to 60 communities, supplying 3 million liters of water a month. Prior to founding Kusini Water, Murendeni worked in the public sector as a water scientist, spending 10 years working for City of Cape Town and Johannesburg water. In this role he worked within a team of scientists to improve and sustain water availability in the metros. He has presented two national scientific papers in the research field of water provision for communities without a piped water network.
Vision: A world where clean water is available to all communities, they have sustainable access to it and it helps them thrive.