The Problem: The Chasm

We discovered a chasm between large cities and villages in which drinking water systems are rarely effective or existent. In that chasm are billions of people residing in millions of small cities and towns that need community-scale infrastructure designed to provide everyone with safe water on tap. This chasm has been our focus since 2005.

We recognized that conventional municipal scale water treatment solutions either were failing within a few years of commissioning or weren’t being implemented at all. The traditional interpretation of these failures was that cities and towns didn’t have the financial resources, governance structures, supply chains, and trained workers that were needed to sustain community-scale water treatment systems. However, we recognized that the failures were occurring because the available technologies weren’t good enough. So we set out with persistence, the ability to question our assumptions, and the scientific method to invent a whole new approach to drinking water treatment infrastructure

The Solution: Bold Ideas

We continue to invent new water treatment technologies by linking university research teams and the discipline of physics.

By partnering with others, our new solutions to safe water on tap can spread rapidly. We leverage the existing capacity of partner organizations.

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