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Sameh Ghali, Egypt (Ashoka Fellow since 2006)
Sameh has introduced a new system of community participation in sanitation design, creating a sewage system for smaller villages to connect their household septic tanks by gravity-fed pipes to a communal filtering facility. These sewage systems are being promoted in villages who are deprived of hygienic living conditions and will not likely have government programs’ support in the next decade or two. Sameh encourages participation in the local communities for their own sanitation design and implementation, creating a sense of ownership and pride while improving environment and health conditions.
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mw WASHKing WASHKing is a Ghanaian social enterprise providing low-income and underserved communities with access to sustainable sanitation products at an affordable price. WASHKing produces, supplies and installs environmentally friendly biodigester toilets made out of eco-friendly materials for low-income urban households and institutions to improve health and economic conditions on the continent. WASHKing’s technology treats waste on-site and does not require piping the waste off-site for treatment. The treated waste serves as manure and water for agricultural use, creating additional value for customers and for the environment. Its flexible payment terms, training on hygiene and after-sale services ensure that customers can get the maximum benefit from improved sanitation solutions.
mw EOS International In Central America, EOS International is a social enterprise on a mission to make safe drinking water accessible throughout the region. EOS’ water purification technology is a low-cost, low-maintenance solution that attaches to any rural community’s water tank and inactivates pathogens in water systems by releasing a controlled dosage of chlorine. One system can provide clean water for up to 1,000 community members and requires no energy to use.
mw Desolenator Desolenator is a social enterprise providing an off-grid, affordable, solar-powered water purification solution to customers at the base of the pyramid. Desolenator’s innovative technology is future-proofing businesses and communities by using 100% solar power to purify any water source – including seawater, brackish and heavy-metal contaminated – into potable water, without consumables like filters or membranes. In remote locations with complex contamination, Desolenator has also developed a number of successful corporate partnerships to help the solution scale, including one with beer producer Carlsberg to support its commitment to halve its water usage in its breweries by 2030.
mw Ecoloo Group Ecoloo Group is a social enterprise on a mission to eliminate poverty through access to sustainable toilets for all. The Ecoloo toilet is eco-friendly, odor-free, water-free, sewage-free, and energy-free. Ecoloo employs a special formulated bacterial culture to treat and dispose of human waste, while transforming the viable parts into natural liquid fertilizer, and its range of offerings include both indoor and outdoor toilets for private and commercial use. Recently, Ecoloo Group was featured in Acumen’s Corporate Ready report
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mw Sistema.bio Sistema.bio is a social enterprise with a prefabricated modular biodigester package that includes a full suite of biogas appliances and connections. Easy to install and use, its patented high-efficiency biodigesters take organic waste and transform it into renewable biogas and a powerful organic fertilizer.
mw Proyecto Agua Segura Proyecto Agua Segura is a social enterprise from Argentina on a mission to achieve safe water for everybody. Proyecto Agua Segura partners with large corporations that face the challenges of water for their businesses , their communities of influence, and the environment in which they operate. Proyecto Agua Segura develops, manages and implements water access, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) and environmental water projects that generate a positive impact on the business, on the efficiency of the resource, and on the communities. For example, Proyecto Agua Segura has partnered with Coca Cola since 2018 to support its goal of replacing 100% of the water it uses to produce its beverages back into nature while improving access to clean water in the rural communities it operates in.
mw Nazava Water Filters Nazava is a social enterprise that provides high quality, affordable water filters that empower households with a free-flow of safe drinking water at the point of use. Using gravity as its main energy source, Nazava replaces the need for boiling water on wood or LPG, resulting in purified water that is 3x cheaper than boiling and 9x cheaper than buying water from refill-kiosks. [Editor’s note: Inspired by their mission and want to get involved? Check out this project with Nazava Water Filters
mw Sanivation Sanivation is a Kenya-based social enterprise that partners with local governments to deliver clean, safe, and efficient sanitation services to urbanizing communities in low-income countries. It does this by converting waste to industrial fuel as a sustainable option for boilers and kilns. Sanivation employs a systematic approach with its partners to design, build, and train local staff on how to manage non-sewered sanitation services that meet the environmental and cultural needs of specific locations.
mw Hydrologic (aka Tunsai Water) Hydrologic is a social enterprise that manufactures, distributes and sells ceramic water filters across Cambodia. About 72% of rural households treat their drinking water by boiling it, which can be inconsistent and requires energy, typically in the form of charcoal or wood (both of which result in greenhouse gas emissions and deforestation.)
mw Folia Water Folia Water is on a mission to make filters for pennies that make water accessible for billions. The Folia Water Filter is an antimicrobial filter paper containing silver nanoparticles that kill bacteria and viruses while filtering out dirt and larger parasites. One filter provides 20L of safe, germ-free water, with no heat required, no pump required, and no electricity required.
mw DrinkWell . Drinkwell is a technology platform for clean water that is embedded within water infrastructure, purifying millions of liters of water every month, worldwide. This systems-based solution equally prioritizes cost-effective, robust and environmentally-friendly treatment technology with simple, reliable, and convenient service delivery.
mw Loowatt Loowatt’s unique toilet system integrates revolutionary waterless flush technology with 360-degree waste processing to deliver hygienic and safe toilets for domestic and commercial applications.
mw Bhumijo Bhumijo is a social enterprise that ensures access to hygienic public sanitation for all in Bangladesh. Bhumijo specially cares for women, children, and differently abled people. Its focus on business sustainability ensures that urban poor will continue to receive sanitation services without disruption. Bhumijo works in partnership with the local government in providing this essential public service, and also partners with private land / building owners to deliver public toilet service.
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v Kochi, India Blue Drops a UV Water Purifier, which disinfects water with UV radiation and Whole House Filters that filter water in order to remove contamination.
v Singapore EcoWorth partnered up with a Singaporean startup which developed Carbon Fibre Aerogel, an organic and recyclable material that filters wastewater by absorbing organic materials.
v Delft, The Netherlands Sealeauoffers their wastewater management technologies to companies who contaminate surface water, seawater and its biodiversity. By removing salt through no water-waste streams, the startup created a technology that enables companies to filter water to ensure it is reusable.
v Somerville, USA ZwitterCo ZwitterCo develops zwitterionic copolymer membranes, a sustainable and low cost product to manage wastewater. With their innovation, ZwitterCo serves its customers the ability to Dewater their wastewater.
v Calgary, Canada Swirltex Swirltex offers buoyancy based membrane filtration to its customers. This filtration systems is a sustainable wastewater treatment, suitable to many applications e.g. dairy processing and mining wastewater.
v Milano, Italy Revotree Revotree is able to improve agriculture by decreasing water usage and an app to automate watering.
v Harrisburg, USA INTAG Systems INTAG systems offer a variety of agricultural systems to fit different sectors' needs.
v Netanya, Israel Cropx Technologies Cropx Technologies has developed a management system used in farming for optimization, which results in the reductions in the amount of water, nutrients, energy and labour used.
v San Jose, USA Waterbit automated irrigation, Waterbits App makes it easy to check up on the progress and constantly control the data.
v Montreal, Canada Blubrim Blubrim offers a system to benefit aquaculture using artificial intelligence. Device test water quality with eight different parameters. With its AI-driven app AquaConnect, customers are able to monitor and control their aquaculture.
v Jerusalem, Israel DrizzleX smart water metering solution. The system works by installing FlowDx,
v Rotterdam, The Netherlands MetroPolder smart water management solutions in cities to decrease water waste. The startup's solution is to reuse rainwater for cooling, watering of plants, groundwater supplementation and as a substitute for drinking water used for applications.
v Gothenburg, Sweden AquaRobur In order to challenge water losses due to leaks, and to control the water distribution, Aqua Robur monitors pipelines by digitizing the network The data is finally shared via Internet of Things (IoT) technology for better water management.
v Calgary, Canada FREDsense detect chemicals in the water, such as arsenic, iron or magnesium.
v Kokhav Ya'ir–Tzur Yig'al, Israel Kando Clear Upstream supplying real-time network intelligence related to wastewater networks.
v Leeuwarden, The Netherlands Biotrack Biotrack uses a technology that detects bacteria. It can be used in the healthcare field, the agri-food industry or in water itself.
v Wauwatosa, USAx has developed a technology to detect contaminants and ensure the purity of drinking water via smart sensors In 2016, NanoAffix was among the winners of the Wisconsin Innovation Award.
v Zurich, Switzerland Unisers a universal liquid analyser that can detect "all non-volatile impurities" via a single test.
v Tempe, USA Zero Mass Water technology to create drinking water from the air and the sunlight.
v Randburg, South Africa IDropWater develops solutions to sell clean water at an affordable price. The I-Drop device supplies purified water using nanomesh filtration technology that removes contaminants.
v Tel Aviv, Israel Hilicoolution to off-grid communities: a rain-harvesting device. It is composed of a 1m² collection surface that can be placed on a “vertical anchor” such as a tree, where a system of filtration is linked to a storage unit through a flexible pipe,
v Enschede, The Netherlands Susteq sustainable access to water for people around the world, thanks to prepaid water ATMs.
v Stockholm, Sweden BlueWater alternative to tap water and single-use plastic bottles, both of which can contain traces of contaminants. Through three designs of water purifiers (Pro, Spirit, Cleone),
v Bjerringbro, Denmark Grundfos water pumps and technology. In December 2019, Global Emerging Market Innovation Award for providing sustainable water supply.
v Greensboro, USA WRANGLER Jeansr invested in a water recycling program that enables the company to have a recycling rate of 75% in their Mexican factory, which minimises the water waste in the production of its products.
v Paris, France Danone DanoneCommunities se portfolio Rejoso Kita project via which the company is working alongside local communities and farmers based in an Indonesian impluvium zone, for a better water management.Becoming one of the first multinationals to be certified B Corp, In 2018, Danone Manifesti Ventures had already invested in German startup Mitte, behind the conception of a device purifying and mineralizing water
v Manitoba, Canada The government of Manitoba places a great importance on implementing a sustainable approach in their actions to provide water as a safe resource to all citizens of the province.
Between April 2015 and March 2018, the measures of the British government and its related departments have enabled 40.3 million people to have sustainable access to clean water and/or sanitation, particularly in Africa.
v London, UK Wateraid founded in 1981, promotes access to “clean water, decent toilets and good sanitation
Working with local authorities in 28 different countries all over the world, they were able to help over 27 million people in need by providing clean water and decent access to toilet
v Kansas City, USA Water.org founded by Gary White and Matt Damon, Water.org is committed to bringing water and sanitation to the world through affordable financing. Many partners, such as Ikea, Bank of America or Cartier Philanthropy play a major role by expanding access to affordable financing to change millions of lives.In 2018, Water.org succeeded in mobilizing $1 billion in capital to help over 17 million people gain access to water and sanitation mostly in India. To date, more than 27 million lives in 16 countries have access to safe water and sanitation.
v Bozeman, USA Project WET(Water Education Today) develops water education resources In 2018, Project WET partnered with the Rural Education and Economic Development Society (REEDS) to work on water education in Pakistan, where over 64% of the population do not have access to uncontaminated water, according to the Pakistan@100 Shaping the Future’s World Bank report of 2019.
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