Over the past year, TEMcompany has been building a close working relationship with LM International, an NGO dedicated to creating sustainable futures while ensuring access to clean water for communities in need. LM International was founded in 1958, is headquartered in Stockholm, and is active in 25 countries across four continents. Our collaboration began with the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) in October 2024 and has evolved into an impactful partnership focused on improving water programs in some of the world’s most water-scarce regions.
As part of this initiative, LM International acquired a sTEM10 profiler and embarked on a seven-day training program with us. The training, currently taking place in Halaba and Yabelo, Ethiopia, brings together LM experts from Ethiopia, Niger, Chad, Sudan, and South Sudan alongside our Geophysicist, Christos Boufidis. Over the past months, we’ve worked closely with Jonatan Strömgren, Senior Water Advisor at LM International, to tailor these sessions to their needs, ensuring participants gain theoretical and practical expertise in fieldwork, data processing, and subsurface interpretation
With LM International providing clean water to hundreds of thousands of people each year, enhancing their borehole siting process is a strategic step forward to more effective and sustainable water access. Seeing our TEM technology contribute to this mission by helping identify optimal drilling locations and deliver real impact in communities affected by water scarcity is very exciting.
We’re grateful for the opportunity to collaborate with the dedicated team at LM International and look forward to seeing the long-term impact of this initiative.
More about LM International
Water, sanitation, and hygiene WASH is LM International’s most significant area of work, and the organization operates 16 drilling rigs in Niger, Chad, Sudan, South Sudan, and Ethiopia. Each year, they drill or rehabilitate 300-600 boreholes, and in 2023, they provided clean water to 760,000 persons in conflict-affected areas. LM International works mainly on rural water supply, emergencies, and refugee camps and sees a strategic need to improve the borehole siting process in all the countries they work in to serve their target groups better with more water.
