10 entrepreneurs on what inspired them to tackle water security by UPLINKThis week in New York, UpLink, the open innovation platform of the Worl...
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This week in New York, UpLink, the open innovation platform of the World Economic Forum is bringing together some of the 'aquapreneurs' from its community of innovators building water security and restoring the world's water ecosystems. We asked 10 of them what their motivation was for embarking on their entrepreneurial journey. and how their innovations are having a positive impact on people and the planet.
This is what they had to say:
For some people, having tap water is a luxury. We need to change that.
—Amrit Om Nyak, Co-founder and CEO, Indra Water
"I grew up in the southern state of Tamil Nadu in India. The region is water stressed with over 50% of the state facing acute water shortage. It was a luxury to have water in our taps and faucets for more than 4 hours per day! I have seen countless women, children and the elderly standing on the roadside in long queues beside water tankers, waiting for their chance to fill their plastic pots with water.
"We were sensitized to the tremendous impact of water on our productivity and other daily chores and activities very early. Natural water bodies within the city limits were extremely polluted. Froth, foul smell, degrading biological material, slime made the water unusable. They are breeding ground for insects and diseases. When I moved to Mumbai, the situation was similar. But the consequences were more alarming.
"We wanted to change this and believed that wastewater is a resource. These factors inspired us to build our electrical water treatment solution which has a fraction of the carbon footprint compared to older solutions and is extremely scalable.
"Indra has already treated more than 750 million litres of water with our solution and we have reduced sludge generation by more than 3000 tons, chemical consumption by 2000 tons and greenhouse gas emissions by 500 tons in the process."....
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https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2023/03/10-entrepreneurs-what-inspired-them-to-tackle-water-insecurityTaxonomy
- Water Security
- Security