Millions of Europeans Unknowingly Drink Contaminated Water

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Millions of Europeans Unknowingly Drink Contaminated Water

Solutions to a modern-day crisis

By Tamara Davison, 150 sec

Casting our eyes to the realms of technology, a few innovative people have already recognised that more could be done, and are paving the way to providing life-changing solutions.

In celebration of today’s World Water Day, an initiative backed by the United Nations, we explore how startups and entrepreneurs are helping to improve water quality, offering more sustainable solutions and in turn saving lives around the globe.

Bulgarian-based Enova is one such startup. Launched by specialists in university, the group has created technology that can purify emerging contaminants in water such as Arsenic, Hexavalent Chromium, Selenium, Nitrate, Perchlorate, MTBE, NDMA, and flouride. Geared at helping industrial, commercial and even municipal bodies, it is a forward-thinking technology that gives communities the ability to provide citizens with clean water whilst also providing wastewater treatment.

Founded in 2013, Austrian based Fluvicon is another water treatment specialist that is already changing lives around the world, particularly in third-world countries. The process is innovative, if not technical. Driven by  forward osmosis , a biological concept that underlines every living cell, the company can pull fresh water and then re-concentrate the osmotic solution which makes the whole process self-sustaining. This is done through the use of a membrane, like in plants themselves, that retains the dirt. Essentially, this means water that is dirty or contaminated by industries can be cleaned and used again.

Furthermore, with the ability to extract water from the saturated ground, the technology could actually change the world on a potentially massive scale.

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