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Goal 6 of the UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development requires nation states to secure water sources and ensure sufficient and affordable water and sanitation for all its communities, rural or urban. Usable water scarcity is a challenge that affects all countries across the globe and this is more prominently felt in rural communities of poorer countries. 

In recent years, many parts of Africa has faced severe droughts limiting portable water supply to rural areas of these countries. Developing an alternate water security strategy for rural communities around Africa can assist local governments in managing water supply systems successfully. This project develops, installs, monitors and evaluates a process of an alternative water supply strategy using case of water management in Limpopo province of South Africa. This province experience challenges of water supply and access due to lack of water services, and difficulties associated with building stakeholder support for resource management strategies.

The model consist of a supply side and a recycling side. A rural home in the far north-east of this province is selected for installation. The supply side supplies water from an Atmospheric Water Generator (AWG), Rain Water \harvesting (RWH) system and a borehole system, all connected to the kitchen and bathroom. The recycling side collects grey water from the kitchen and bathtub to a submerged tank, purifies this water and supplies to two outlets: one leading to a hydrogenerator and the other to irrigation. The system consists of a number of pumps, valves for controls, flow meters for measurement of water flows and an Internet of Things model for remote monitoring of the system. The model is shown to provide an overflow of water to the selected home even in the dry (winter) season of the case study area.