Cleaner, Safer Water in Cambodia

Audit Analysis

A Gold Standard ceramic water purifier project in Cambodia with verified additionality and a recently reassessed baseline, but significant gaps in permanence risk management (reversal events unaddressed, no buffer pool) and data quality issues in leakage calculations. The project delivered roughly 109% of its pro-rata expectation for the monitoring period, but the 100% assumed usage rate versus 80.76% verified usage introduces over-crediting risk.

Project Description

Red Flags

• ⚠Reversal events explicitly 'not addressed' in an avoidance project with no buffer pool stated — permanence risk is unquantified
• ⚠CAR 04 identifies inconsistent numbers of purchased diesel and LPG in the leakage calculation, undermining the 0% leakage deduction
• ⚠Usage rate assumed at 100% in the appendix but only 80.76% verified in the 2025 monitoring report — a 19-point gap that inflates credit volume
• ⚠PDD used additionality Tool Version 6.0 when Gold Standard requires Version 7.0 (CAR-01), raising questions about the robustness of the additionality demonstration

Credit Vintages