In connection with the World Water Day, GreentechLead identified a few companies that provide innovative solutions to address the water issues the society is facing.
SPOUTS of Water provides Ugandan communities with increased access to safe drinking water by manufacturing and distributing affordable ceramic water filters.
To address this problem, SPOUTS created the Purifaaya, the only locally manufactured water filter in Uganda.
The Purifaaya is affordable even to poorer communities at $22, providing a tested solution to people who need it most.
Since the first sale in 2015, SPOUTS has provided over 80,000 individuals in 200 different communities across Uganda with access to clean drinking water.
Dispensers for Safe Water places chlorine dispensers in the immediate vicinity of other water sources.
Because chlorine dispensers avert carbon emissions — people do not need energy to boil water to disinfect it — we are generating credits.
Jibu Jibu is rooted in the belief that the ultimate solution to the water challenge is eye-to-eye partnership with local owners.
Through a social franchise model, Jibu is launching drinking water businesses in urban and peri-urban areas where the local water sources are unsafe to drink.
Through efficient technology and distribution, Jibu franchises are making safe water accessible and affordable to entire communities.

Rotary clubs seek to raise awareness of clean drinking water.
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BERKELEY SPRINGS, W.Va. — Five local Rotary clubs, as well as Rotary Interact and Rotoract clubs from across the region, will come together Sunday afternoon to raise awareness of the importance of quality drinking water.
The Water Awareness Project will be from 2 to 5 p.m. at Berkeley Springs State Park.
The effort will highlight the local and international clean-water projects that Rotary supports.
Rotary clubs will host a Bucket Brigade, where participants will transport water from the springs to a ShelterBox water-filtration system.
Mike Hornby, incoming Rotary district governor, and Berkeley Springs Mayor Scott Merki will join the cause by drinking the water once it is filtered.
Local high-school students who participate in Rotary Interact clubs will be on site, and will hold a bake sale to raise money for clean-water efforts.

Industrial Water Treatment Equipment Market – Trends and Forecasts by Technavio.
LONDON–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Technavio’s latest report on the global industrial water treatment equipment market provides an analysis of the most important trends expected to impact the market outlook from 2017-2021.
Advances in membrane technology to emerge as a key trend in the global industrial water treatment equipment market.
Tweet this Thanikachalam Chandrasekaran, a lead analyst from Technavio, specializing in research on water and waste managementsector, says, “Industry-specific demands and the growth in industrial development will drive the global industrial water treatment equipment market during the forecast period.
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The top three emerging trends driving the global industrial water treatment equipment market according to Technavio energy research analysts are: Increasing demand for clean water Plenty of water is available on the surface of the earth, and it has been estimated to be sufficient for future generations.
Advances in membrane technology Membrane technologies play a vital role in water and energy sustainability.
Increased need for water treatment in developing countries The increased need for safe water in developing countries is one of the main reasons for the rise in demand for water treatment equipment globally.
The increased need for water treatment in developing countries is one of the key trends expected to drive the growth of the market.
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In October 2011, the Vermont Supreme Court ruled that the City of Montpelier had no authority to prohibit recreational uses on the Pond — a ruling that ended more than 100 years of Montpelier’s control of the pond.
In due course the Montpelier City Council and the City’s representative in the Vermont House went to the Legislature to seek state authority to regulate the pond.
The City shall have the authority to regulate its public water supply and public water sources in order to protect the water supply and sources from corruption.
The city’s water supply sources include Berlin Pond in the Town of Berlin.
According to Rep. Warren Kitzmiller who has consistently advocated for Montpelier’s control of the pond — H.6 — the bill that would grant the City the authority to regulate the Pond is still “on the wall” in the committee room.
Some will argue that it’s wise, that it may be in the best interest of the City of Montpelier to attend the working group meeting, seek common ground, get the best deal we can get with the Town of Berlin, the State of Vermont and the sporting organizations that have pressed to open the pond.
We’ve lost an irreplaceable resource, protected for more than 100 years.
Will the State of Vermont pay?
Or the Town of Berlin.
About Montpelier’s Berlin Pond Drinking Water Supply Vermont lakes/ponds available for fishing & boating: 263,000 acres Vermont towns/cities served by small pond for their drinking water supply: 11 towns with 10 percent of Vermont’s population.

Cheyenne’s drinking water is better than federal water standards.
According to the City of Cheyenne Board of Public Utilities’ (Board) 2016 Consumer Confidence Report (CCR), also known as a water quality report, Cheyenne’s drinking water continues to be safe and water quality meets or exceeds federal and local drinking water standards.
Or, in other words, Cheyenne’s drinking water is better than the drinking water standards established by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
What makes Cheyenne’s drinking water safe?
Drinking water is safe because Board employees protect it and make it safe.
Water department crews monitor and protect water quality at water sources, during water treatment and as water is delivered to homes and businesses.
Cheyenne also has excellent water sources.
About 75 percent of Cheyenne’s drinking water comes from mountain streams in the Medicine Bow Mountain Range west of Laramie and from the Laramie Mountain Range west of Cheyenne.
Around 25 percent of Cheyenne’s water comes from groundwater wells.
A copy of the 2016 Water Quality Report will be mailed to customers, is available online, and at the Board’s office at 2416 Snyder Avenue.

A ranking of the Safe Drinking Water Act violations puts Wisconsin 12th worst in the United States by one measurement, according to a new study by the Natural Resources Defense Council.
The study released Tuesday by the environmental advocacy group lists nearly 1,400 violations of the federal Safe Drinking Water Act by public wells in Wisconsin, resulting in the state’s 12th worst ranking for the number of violations per the number of people using community wells.
There were more than 80,000 reported violations of the Safe Drinking Water Act nationally, according to the study.
Across the U.S. the federal government needs to put more money into the public water supply infrastructure, said Erik Olson, director of NRDC’s health program.
"We’re living off of our great grandparents investments.
A lot of these water systems are 100 years old or older and need to be updated," Olson said.
"The fix is to invest in two things: common sense enforcement of the law and the other is water infrastructure investments."
Our robust system to discover violations early is likely more comprehensive than other states, meaning violation numbers may seem high when looking just at EPA data, which some broadly interpret as a widespread problem, but in fact our system enables us to identify more problems quicker and allows us to assist systems in getting them resolved quicker, which in turn gets clean, safe water back on line for the public quicker.
It’s still reported to (the) EPA as a violation, but the community system is still serving the public with clean, safe water from its other sources.
A federal program will provide $1 billion in credit to finance $2 billion in work.

North Division High School students protest school’s water cleanliness.
A group of students held a rally at 4 p.m. at the school saying they’re concerned over the presence of lead in their drinking water.
Students part of the group "Youth Rising Up" organized the rally, saying they’re afraid to drink the water at their school.
According to its website, when MPS voluntarily tested the water at North Division, it found 15 drinking fountains and 92 faucets where lead levels exceeded EPA standards (15 parts per billion).
The district is in the process of replacing fixtures at North Division and at all schools where standards exceeded those guidelines.
A spokesperson for the district said two water fountains at North Division still need to be repaired.
"No longer will we sit back and just accept, yes this happened, no this didn’t happen.
The students were also upset over the installation of a filtered water fountain on the third floor of the building, where MPS says the district conducts staff training.
MPS said it found there weren’t a lot of water fountains on the third floor and staff who came to the building for training were waiting in line to fill up water bottles.
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Elgin Academy students to walk for clean water access.
Elgin Academy students next week will walk 3.5 miles carrying 20 pounds of books using backpacks to mimic what nearly a billion people go through each day to access clean water.
The school’s Environmental Club is hosting a Walk for Water May 12 benefiting Water Mission, an international organization helping provide safe water and sanitation globally.
"There is no set cost for people to participate.
Our main goal is to raise awareness and make people realize what they can do in their everyday lives."
Feeley said she hopes future students will carry on the tradition of the water walk.
Water conservation already is a focus of the school’s environmentally conscious students, said Lynn Martin, school spokeswoman.
A baking club at the school does bake sales to raise money for Charity Water.
"A lot of reusable water bottles are on campus.
This is somewhat happening naturally.

Governor declares long drought over but urges continuing conservation.
The long drought emergency is officially over in most of California but the Governor and City of Santa Paula want consumers to continue to conserve.
Jerry Brown followed an unprecedented water conservation effort and plentiful winter rain and snow.
Although Brown declared the end of the drought emergency in most of the state, water reporting requirements and prohibitions on wasteful practices, such as watering during or right after rainfall, will be maintained.
“Conservation must remain a way of life.” His executive order lifted the drought emergency in all California counties except Fresno, Kings, Tulare and Tuolumne, where emergency drinking water projects will continue to help address diminished groundwater supplies.
But, water conservation will continue to be a way of life throughout California.
The state will continue its work to coordinate a statewide response on the unprecedented bark beetle outbreak in drought-stressed forests that has killed millions of trees across California.
The consequences of millions of dead trees and the diminished groundwater basins will continue to challenge areas of the state for years.
It was marked by extraordinary heat: 2014, 2015 and 2016 were California’s first, second and third warmest year in terms of statewide average temperatures.
In 2011-2012 Santa Paula had 9.85 inches of rain, 54.6 percent of the average season total; in 2012-2013 only 5.96 inches of rain fell, just 33 percent of the season average; in 2013-2014 it was only 6.15 inches for 34.1 percent of the average; 2014-2015 there was 11.22 inches, 62.2 percent of normal and during 2015-2016 there was 9.88 inches of rain, 54.7 of average.

How taking a walk in Seattle can bring clean water to remote areas of the world.
When we want clean water, we just turn on the tap.
But some 650 million people around the world do not have access to clean water, and by the year 2025, half the world’s population will be living in what’s known as water-stressed areas.
In many countries, people walk miles to find water and lug it home, and in many cases it is dirty and disease-ridden.
International charity World Vision, based in Federal Way, develops ways to bring fresh water to struggling regions, and today they tell us how we can help, and it couldn’t be simpler.
Samuel Irungu from World Vision shared his own story of growing up in Kenya with little access to drinking water, as well as the work being done by World Vision to bring clean water to remote areas of the world.
He also previewed this weekend’s Global 6K for Water.
World Vision’s Global 6K for Water takes place at 9:00 am on Saturday, May 6th at Gas Works Park in Seattle.
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