According to Skaff, she helped found H2go! because she “was fed up with the environmental situation in Lebanon, and the garbage crisis that [her] country was going through.” In particular, plastic bottles mount up around Lebanon because citizens do not have sufficient access to clean drinking water.

Skaff claims that Lebanon is near the head of the queue when it comes to churning through single-use water bottles, ranking as one of the world’s top 15 consumers per capita. This waste has led to unsightly environmental damage, an ugly situation compounded by Lebanon’s three-year garbage crisis. “The accumulation of waste, especially plastic, is now evident in our mountains, our rivers and the sea, endangering our ecosystem and our health,’ says Skaff.

H2go! aims to reduce mass consumption of single-use plastics by creating a network of sanitized water points in public places. Users can locate the stations and buy water there through the H2go! mobile app. H2go! has created trendy reusable bottles for our clients, adding an element of cool to sustainable water drinking habits.

Skaff adds that, before the SwitchMed Incubation Program, “H2go! was [just] an idea.” The training helped Skaff and her team develop H2go!’s mission and vision, define its target audience and develop a green business canvas.

“It is thanks to SwitchMed that I started to believe that H2go! was a promising idea that could actually come to life,” says Skaff.

Meet the team at H2go! here.

The startup also created machines to refill reusable bottles with mineral water a couple of years ago. They were on hold for a good amount of time because of Covid, but the team now is finally running a pilot, testing one at a university in Lebanon. 

Photos courtesy of H2GO!