WaterHealth International recognized as part of Cleantech revolution

WaterHealth International (WHI) has been named on the “Ten to Watch” list of companies in The Clean Tech Revolution, a new book released by Collins, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers. The book features clean technologies that can impact global development, fuel costs, security and climate change, among others. We are delighted to see WaterHealth International featured not only because we see WHI as an innovator in the water industry, but also because they are demonstrating the potential for new technologies to benefit low income consumers that have been excluded from the benefits of innovation in the past.

The economic incentives to reduce the costs of fuel, or mitigate costly climate changes, are understandable motivations for technology innovation. But it is only logical that clean technologies that create more sustainable access to sustainable and affordable services such as safe water, clean energy, and fuel efficient transportation, would hold the most value for those that live at the base of the economic pyramid (the BOP). A convergence between Cleantech, design for the BOP, and social investing could be the right combination to assure that development in emerging economies is inclusive and environmentally sustainable.

In the book, authors Ron Pernick and Clint Wilder identify ten companies in each of eight clean-technology industry sectors that bear watching for growth and industry influence in the near to mid-term. WHI has been included in the “Ten to Watch” list for the chapter titled “Water Filtration: Turning Oceans, Wastewater, and Other Untapped Sources Into Pure Water.”