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Chowdhury is the co-founder of Drinkwell, a social enterprise that turns global water crisis to entrepreneurial opportunity. Drinkwell gives clean and safe water to countries like India, Cambodia, Bangladesh, and Laos. Water filtration technology and business tools are introduced to local communities affected by arsenic. At this time, over 200 water sources are using their water filtration units. This has improved health outcomes and created job opportunities for the locals in the process.
1- Discuss about his mission, benefir and the mechansim of his business (200 words)
2- What are the challenger, risk and orstacles he faced ? (150 words)
1) The core purpose or mission of this company is supporting the health, well-being, and healing of both people and community. In many places there is abundant water, but not in conditions for use by humans. Nearly 1 million people die each year from water, sanitation and hygiene-related diseases. Access to safe water and sanitation contributes to improved health and helps prevent the spread of infectious disease. It means reduced child and maternal mortality rates.
· The filtration system includes passage of water or other solvents through a semi-permeable membrane. The membrane blocks the dissolved solutes that contaminate water. Filters out all sorts of contaminant from water. This filtration process is one among the most effective methods of water purification. Later The membrane serves the purpose of removing all sorts of contaminants in water. Water enters into the storage tank after this purification stage.Storage tank store purified treated water. Before water stored in tank water witness final post-filters. By a filter. Carbon it remove bad smell.The UV light used in the next process UV lamp provides pure and safe drinking water. These rays have the ability to kill 99.9% of germs.
· Benefits:Water filter system remove Chlorine save money on Bottled Water. Bottled water can be up to 30x more expensive than water from a filter. It Reduce Plastic waste and bottle water supplies heavy metals mercury, lead, arsenic and dioxins. Other studies says problems in men and reproductive issues for both men and women.
2) Risk:The increasingly intensive use of water needed for production, especially in the farming sector seems to highest risk. The role of natural sunlight to disinfect water .SODIS method was initially developing. Innovative technologies and nanotechnologies serves as threat for the present company