GS1247 VPA 185 Lango Safe Water Project

Audit Analysis

The Lango Safe Water Project has VVB-confirmed additionality and no reversal events, but is undermined by a 0% leakage deduction with no justification, a 2,000-fold discrepancy in the non-renewable baseline factor across verification reports, and severe operational degradation (72% operationality, multiple water-quality failures). The volume of open corrective actions and forward action requests signals persistent MRV weaknesses that erode confidence in the verified emission reductions.

Project Description

Red Flags

• ⚠fNRB value of 0.0004 in the 2025 verification report versus 0.81 in the 2024 verification report — a 2,000-fold discrepancy that cannot be reconciled without clarification and raises serious data-reliability concerns
• ⚠Leakage deduction of 0% with justification recorded as 'not addressed' in the most recent verification report, while the PDD originally proposed a 5% deduction
• ⚠Operational degradation: breakdown days surged to 16,883 (72% operationality), time-saving dropped from 60.7% to 28.5%, and 6 boreholes failed water-quality tests with 3 months of crediting removed for each
• ⚠Usage rate of 0.995 assumed and verified, which appears inconsistent with the reported 28% downtime and water-quality failures at multiple boreholes
• ⚠Discrepancy between claimed solar-panel installation and the technology actually observed at site (CL#11)

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