The VentureForth Quarterly @ UCSD

Monday, February 05, 2007

Social Innovation

$1 million prize awarded for water purifier

FAIRFAX, Va. - A professor who developed an inexpensive, easy-to-make system for filtering arsenic from well water has won a $1 million engineering prize — and he plans to use most of the money to distribute the filters to needy communities around the world.

Innovation is a source for solutions and not only for profit.

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