Aqua Clara Water Filtration Program in Kenya

Audit Analysis

The Aqua Clara water filtration project in Kenya has a verified additionality assessment and FPIC, but suffers from significant integrity gaps including no buffer pool, unaddressed reversal risk, a 0% leakage deduction with contradictory justification, and a history of over-issuance requiring credit deductions. Multiple ERR and methodology contradictions across verification cycles, combined with a project-specific baseline and CORSIA eligibility, elevate over-crediting and double-claim risk. The project's documentation is reasonably extensive (19 documents) but carries medium extraction confidence and several unresolved forward action requests.

Project Description

Red Flags

• ⚠No buffer pool or permanence mechanism identified in any available document; reversal events explicitly 'not addressed' despite confirmed filter non-operation periods of 93 and 54 days
• ⚠Over-issuance of 176.14 credits (107.76 + 68.38) deducted in the 2022 verification report, indicating prior periods over-credited relative to actual filter usage
• ⚠0% leakage deduction with contradictory justification ('quantified' in 2022 report vs 'deemed negligible' in 2021 report) for a project distributing physical filters to dispersed households
• ⚠ERR discrepancy of 4,432 credits between the 2021 monitoring report (28,429) and the 2022 verification report (23,997), a 15.6% reduction not fully explained by the stated over-issuance deductions
• ⚠CORSIA eligibility confirmed while CCP status is not stated, creating potential dual-channel crediting risk

Credit Vintages