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WaterHealth International: Providing Safe Drinking Water to the Bottom of the Pyramid Consumers

Case Code: LDEN069 Case Length: 26 Pages Period: 1992-2009 Pub Date: 2010 Teaching Note: Available

Price: Rs.500 Organization : WaterHealth International Inc. Industry :Safe Water Countries : India, Africa, Global Themes: Social Entrepreneurship, Corporate Social Responsibility

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Gadgil's Initial Efforts

An outbreak of cholera in West Bengal, India, in 1992 provided the impetus for the development of the UVW technology. Distressed by the loss of human life caused by the epidemic, Ashok Gadgil (Gadgil), an Indian-born senior physicist at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory of the University of California, began to think about ways in which the issue of water-borne diseases could be addressed.

In 1993, he started working evenings and weekends and began his research with a mechanical engineering student and researcher in the Life Sciences Division of Berkeley Lab, Derek Yegian, to devise a system that would disinfect water using UV light. In his initial years, he did not have any funding for his project...

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