Through Hell or High
Water: Five Startups Aiming to Save the Planet by Saving Water
(Algemeiner - https://tinyurl.com/rjcsmmk )
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:
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.
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