Improving water quality and quantity in emergencies: The Inclined Plate Settler water treatment system

ALNAP and ELRHA will be looking at 15 different examples of humanitarian innovation funded by ELRHA’s Humanitarian Innovation Fund (HIF) grants. Each case study will explore the dynamics of successful innovation processes, culminating in a unique and in-depth study on innovation in humanitarian action.

This case study describes how Université Laval, in partnership with Oxfam GB developed the Inclined Plate Settler kit, a water treatment system that increases the supply of water in an emergency, at a significantly reduced cost. 

Was this a successful innovation process? What lessons about innovation were found? Each case study is part of a broader research that seeks to define and understand what successful innovation looks like in the humanitarian sector, and improve understanding of how undertake and support innovative programming can work in practice.