Monday, December 16, 2019

Through Hell or High Water: Five Startups Aiming to Save the Planet by Saving Water


Through Hell or High Water: Five Startups Aiming to Save the Planet by Saving Water


While water is essential to all life, for many people around the world, access to clean drinking water is still a luxury they cannot afford. As of 2018, 785 million people worldwide do not have access to clean water, according to the United Nations’ water security organization WaterAid. According to the World Health Organization, every minute a newborn dies somewhere in the world from an infection affiliated with a lack of access to safe water.

From extracting safe drinking water out of thin, yet humid, air to turning rain into drinkable water, below are five Israeli startups trying to minimize the world’s water crisis.
Note the founders of WATA Solutions below - is this apartheid?
WaterGen
Founded: 2009
Founders: Arye Kohavi, Avi Peretz, - Based in Rishon LeZion
Water-Gen develops atmospheric water generators (AWG) that are able to extract clean and safe drinking water from the naturally occurring humidity in the air. Watergen’s technology can be used to provide safe water to places suffering from water shortage or lacking water infrastructure.
ToxSorb
Founded: 2007
Based in Kfar Giladi in northern Israel
ToxSorb designs and operates customized filtration systems engineered to remove certain chemical contaminants from wastewater, making it clean enough to drink. The company also cleans polluted water for industrial and agricultural purposes.
NUFiltration
Founded: 2011
Founder: Mino Negrin  - Based in Caesarea, south of Haifa
NUFiltration manufactures and distributes water and wastewater treatment systems using medical filtration devices. The company’s technology is used in greenhouses to recycle drain water by removing pathogens, viruses, and other microbiological pollutants while leaving micronutrient levels unchanged.
WATA Solution
Founded: 2018
Founders: Muhanad Alkharaz, Bar Horowitz - Based in Jerusalem
WATA Solution’s technology uses sensors to provide households, water companies, and municipalities with real-time data on their water, including purity levels and remaining supply.
Hilico
Founded: 2016
Founders: Moshe Belilty, Eyal Yassky-Weiss - Based in Ramat Gan
Hilico Off-Grid Solutions develops a portable lightweight rain-harvesting device designed to sustainably provide clean drinking water to off-grid communities and disaster-stricken areas.

1 comment:

Richard Schwartz said...

Wonderful to learn about these effort s, but it should also be considered that animal-based diets require up to 13 times as much water per person than vegan diets, largely because of huge amounts of water needed to irrigate crops to feed animas, with 70% of grains grown in the US being fed to farmed animas.