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Report: India Will Soon Run out of Water; ‘Extremely High’ Crisis Level
India, ranked 13 on Aqueduct's list of "extremely highly" water stressed countries, has more than three times the population of the other 16 countries in this category combined, the report said.
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- WASH
- Region
- South Asia
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- emerging markets, WASH, water
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Chennai’s Drought Has Tough Lessons for Asia’s Economies
When foreign companies ponder investing in emerging markets, they tend to pay attention to a relatively narrow range of factors and regulations which affect their ability to do business. India's water problems are now sufficiently dire to merit inclusion in that list.
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- Environment, WASH
- Region
- South Asia
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Solar Water Pumps Have Been Around Since the 1970s: Here’s Why They Haven’t Scaled
Solar water pumps, which have been around for years, are becoming far more affordable thanks to declining solar panel prices and new business models – particularly for the roughly 500 million smallholder farmers worldwide. So why isn’t the industry taking off? Makena Ireri and Jenny Corry Smith of CLASP, a group of 14 donor organizations working to scale markets and reduce the prices of off-grid technologies, present several reasons. They explore solutions for making solar irrigation systems a priority in the off-grid conversation.
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- Energy
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Press Release: New Design Challenge Empowers and Informs Responses to Global Water Crises
Designing Water's Future, will leverage the power of creative design and communications, citizen science, frontier data analysis, visualization tools, and Artificial Intelligence-powered analysis to advance responses and solutions.
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- WASH
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Ceramics in Global Development: How an Affordable, Overlooked Technology Could Spark a Micro-Scale Industrial Revolution
In the developing world, diseases caused by polluted air and contaminated water claim millions of lives. Yet initiatives to distribute clean cookstoves and water filters have often struggled to bring affordable solutions to poor communities. According to Reid Harvey at TAM Ceramics, both filters and cookstoves can be inexpensively produced with an unexpected technology: ceramics. He explores how a breakthrough in ceramic science and design, combined with a focus on local production and distribution, could boost entrepreneurship while delivering life-changing products to the poor.
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- Energy, Entrepreneurship
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The Other ‘Shark Tank’: A High-Stakes Effort to Find Solutions to the Global Water Crisis
You've probably seen the TV show "Shark Tank," in which small-scale entrepreneurs compete for funding from a panel of wealthy investors. The Securing Water for Food Grand Challenge for Development took a similar approach – but the stakes were far higher: The goal was to generate solutions to water shortages that already affect over 2 billion people, before population growth escalates these shortages into a perpetual global crisis. Ku McMahan, team lead for the Challenge, discusses its unique approach and surprising impact.
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- Agriculture, Entrepreneurship, Environment, WASH
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Press release: WaterEquity Announces Closing of Its US$50 Million Flagship Impact Investment Fund
Founded by actor Matt Damon and social entrepreneur Gary White, WaterEquity's funds invest in a portfolio of financial institutions and enterprises in emerging markets—enabling them to scale, meet increasing market demand, and deliver access to safe water and sanitation.
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Matt Damon is on a Mission to End the Global Water Crisis
The water and sanitation crisis affects billions of people worldwide, and creates an impasse for economic growth in impoverished areas as people—primarily women and school-age children—spend hours each day scavenging for and collecting clean water. One in three people on earth lack access to a toilet, one of the more jarring statistics provided on Water.org’s website.
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- social enterprise, WASH, water
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