19 Oct '12, 9am

One Entrepreneur's Quest to Make Any Water Source Potable - Triple Pundit

3p: A lot of the need for drinking water is in places and communities without financial resources. Is Omni Water finding business opportunity in those areas? WS: We were founded first with a technology for emergency drinking water — one that can make drinking water out of any source. So our core expertise is in sensing and responding to contaminants, such as arsenic and mercury. Currently, we’re working with an opportunity in Japan, sponsored by the government, for drinking water machines to deal with natural disaster situations. There are all sorts of ways to solve the water problem. I’m a big fan of helping folk dig wells in rural areas. Our machine is a high tech machine with a lot of expensive capital equipment, so we need to deal with governments and NGOs that are well-financed and can put in place the infrastructure and personnel to maintain the equipment over time.

Full article: http://www.triplepundit.com/2012/10/one-entrepreneurs-que...

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