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GS5658 VPA 7: Water is Life Madagascar
Gold Standard · GS6752 · Madagascar
Credits issued
18,978
tonnes CO₂-equivalent
Credits retired
16,978
89% of issued
Remaining
2,000
issued and not yet retired
Status
Active
Gold Standard Certified Project
About this project
The project activity “Water is Life, Madagascar” is developed by Associazione Mondobimbi Veneto onlus in collaboration with Carbonsink. The project foresees to provide safe drinking water for the local families living in the surroundings of the city of Toliara, in the Region of Atsimo-Andreafana, Madagascar. The project is addressed to supply safe drinking water for domestic use and consequently to improve the hygiene, social, economic and environmental issues related to the water consume. Moreover, verifiable CO2 emission reductions will be achieved.
The record
- Project ID
- GS6752
- Registry
- Gold Standard
- Type
- Clean Water · Household & Community
- Removal or reduction
- Reduction
- Methodology
- GS TPDDTEC Reduced emissions from cooking and heating – technologies and practices to displace decentralized thermal energy consumption v3.1
- Developer
- Madaprojects Srl SB · 12 projects
- Country
- Madagascar
- First vintage
- 2018
- Crediting period
- 2019-11-18 to 2023-11-17
- Estimated yearly credits
- 10,000
- Scale
- Micro Scale · VPA
- Sustainable Development Goals
- Goal 6: Clean Water and Sanitation · Goal 13: Climate Action · Goal 3: Good Health and Well-Being · Goal 12: Responsible Production and Consumption
- Data from
- Berkeley VROD v2026-08 + Gold Standard registry
Community involvement
households
Basis: Project description (Gold Standard registry). This lists who the project describes working with; it is not a check of benefit-sharing.
Sustainable Development Goals claimed: Goal 6: Clean Water and Sanitation · Goal 13: Climate Action · Goal 3: Good Health and Well-Being · Goal 12: Responsible Production and Consumption
Status and timeline
- Registry status
- Gold Standard Certified Project (Active)
- First credits (vintage)
- 2018
- Crediting period
- 2019-11-18 to 2023-11-17
- Credits issued
- 18,978 (retired 16,978)
Credits by vintage year
Issued and retired, tonnes CO₂-equivalent
Location
Corrected location The registry location had swapped or sign-flipped coordinates; fixed and checked against the country border
- Coordinates
- -23.3516, 43.6855
- Source
- Gold Standard registry (public API), corrected
- Note
- Registry gave latitude 23.3516, longitude 43.6855 (flip lat); corrected to the only variant that falls inside Madagascar
Other clean water projects in Madagascar
| GS5658 VPA 16: Water is Life Madagascar GS10657 · Gold Standard Certified Project | 42,819 |
| GS5658 VPA 18: Water is Life Madagascar GS10659 · Gold Standard Certified Project | 42,780 |
| Water is Life Madagascar GS7566 · Gold Standard Certified Project | 42,480 |
| GS5658 VPA 8: The Community Safe Water (Madaga... GS7090 · Gold Standard Certified Project | 40,034 |
| GS5658 VPA 23: Water is Life Madagascar GS10783 · Gold Standard Certified Project | 34,678 |
| GS5658 VPA 17: Water is Life Madagascar GS10658 · Gold Standard Certified Project | 34,387 |
Credit totals and status are as compiled in the Berkeley Voluntary Registry Offsets Database v2026-08 (CC BY 4.0) and change as the registries update. Please check the registry record before you quote a figure.