Social (Business) Innovations
Safe drinking water
Grameen Veolia Waters in Bangladesh filters ground water to free it from arsenic contamination:
https://www.veolia.in/about-us/grameen-veolia
German Viva con Agua sells mineral water and supports water and sanitation projects all over the world using innovative techniques for constructing fountains and fognets (called "Cloudfisher").
https://www.vivaconagua.org/en/waterprojects/
Interview:
http://www.gratis-webserver.de/si/5.html
SPOUTS is a social enterprise providing ceramic waterfilters and improved cookstoves in Uganda and Rwanda:
https://spouts.org
Caminos des Agua in Mexico has developed several solutions to obtain access to clean water, such as a rainwater harvesting system, a groundwater treatment system, ceramic filters and bike pumbs for wells:
https://www.caminosdeagua.org/en/home/
African Ipod Water provides water refilling stations placed in groceries, where people can buy water by refilling their own bottles so that they do not need to buy plastic bottles:
https://www.purewaterpod.com/i-drop-water
Reuse of Water
Grameen Veolia in India provides solutions in terms of watermanagement, i.e. recycling wastewater for industries
https://www.veolia.in
Sanitation
German social business Goldeimer provides sustainable services round toilets: providing toilets for festivals (using no chemicals and turning all biomass to humus), toilets for campers, sustainable toilet paper and exploring how to reduce the waste of napkins.
https://goldeimer.de
"Holy shit toilets" are built up in parks like in Cologne, Germany, reusing the input as dung:
https://www1.wdr.de/nachrichten/rheinland/koeln-erste-holyshit-toilette-im-volksgarten-100.html
Columbian "Tierra Grata" offers services with regards to water, sanitation and energy to rural families with the help of a non-interest credit:
https://tierragrata.org/en/home
Interview:
http://www.gratis-webserver.de/si/7.html
Plastic in rivers
Look at different approaches on how to collect plastic in rivers in the section "plastic" on the left.
Grameen Veolia Waters in Bangladesh filters ground water to free it from arsenic contamination:
https://www.veolia.in/about-us/grameen-veolia
German Viva con Agua sells mineral water and supports water and sanitation projects all over the world using innovative techniques for constructing fountains and fognets (called "Cloudfisher").
https://www.vivaconagua.org/en/waterprojects/
Interview:
http://www.gratis-webserver.de/si/5.html
SPOUTS is a social enterprise providing ceramic waterfilters and improved cookstoves in Uganda and Rwanda:
https://spouts.org
Caminos des Agua in Mexico has developed several solutions to obtain access to clean water, such as a rainwater harvesting system, a groundwater treatment system, ceramic filters and bike pumbs for wells:
https://www.caminosdeagua.org/en/home/
African Ipod Water provides water refilling stations placed in groceries, where people can buy water by refilling their own bottles so that they do not need to buy plastic bottles:
https://www.purewaterpod.com/i-drop-water
Reuse of Water
Grameen Veolia in India provides solutions in terms of watermanagement, i.e. recycling wastewater for industries
https://www.veolia.in
Sanitation
German social business Goldeimer provides sustainable services round toilets: providing toilets for festivals (using no chemicals and turning all biomass to humus), toilets for campers, sustainable toilet paper and exploring how to reduce the waste of napkins.
https://goldeimer.de
"Holy shit toilets" are built up in parks like in Cologne, Germany, reusing the input as dung:
https://www1.wdr.de/nachrichten/rheinland/koeln-erste-holyshit-toilette-im-volksgarten-100.html
Columbian "Tierra Grata" offers services with regards to water, sanitation and energy to rural families with the help of a non-interest credit:
https://tierragrata.org/en/home
Interview:
http://www.gratis-webserver.de/si/7.html
Plastic in rivers
Look at different approaches on how to collect plastic in rivers in the section "plastic" on the left.
