{"id":19361,"date":"2012-02-19T21:45:51","date_gmt":"2012-02-20T04:45:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tested-neuron.flywheelsites.com\/?p=19361"},"modified":"2015-08-21T15:00:02","modified_gmt":"2015-08-21T21:00:02","slug":"aguaphytex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unreasonablegroup.com\/articles\/aguaphytex\/","title":{"rendered":"Using Plant-Based Tech To Bring Clean Water To Millions"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"embed-vimeo\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/46980823\" width=\"1080\" height=\"608\" frameborder=\"0\" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><em>On an otherwise reasonable evening, more than 1,000 people packed an auditorium in Boulder, Colorado, for the culmination of the 2012\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/unreasonableinstitute.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Unreasonable Institute<\/a>. They came to see <a title=\"Global Institute 2012 Series \" href=\"https:\/\/wary-sunlight.flywheelsites.com\/category\/program\/institute\/2012_institute\/\">23 ventures<\/a>\u00a0present their solutions to some of the world\u2019s greatest challenges.<\/em><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Pedro Tomas Delgado, Founder of <a title=\"Agua Inc Web\" href=\"http:\/\/aguainc.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Agua Inc.<\/a>\u00a0(formerly named Aguaphytex) has a sustainable solution for the 900 million people who don&#8217;t have access to clean water.<\/p>\n<p>Aquaphytex is a pioneer company and a global leader in biotechnological production, installation and maintenance of plant material for its use in depuration systems of wastewater. An innovative, creative, and dynamic company in phytodepuration (purification using plants), which offers a natural, effective, clean and low cost alternative to the obsolete, expensive and pollutant traditional physicochemical depuration.<\/p>\n<h3>What is the urgent social or environmental need you&#8217;re addressing?<\/h3>\n<p>900 million people in the World don\u2019t have access to drinking Water. Almost 2,5 million lack access to basic sanitation. 894 million don\u2019t have access to clean fresh water to satisfy their basic needs to drink, clean and cooking. Each 20 seconds a child dies as a consequence of the lack of sanitation. The consequence? 1,5 million deaths a year, that could be avoided.<br \/>\nAquaphytex works to stop the high percentage of people without sustainable access to drinking water, with an economical alternative for treatment of wastewater. The population where we work can\u2019t make big investments due to their economic situation. For this reason, Aquaphytex also contributes to the economic and social development making the wastewater treatment the main activity of the population.<\/p>\n<h3>What is your solution to this need? Describe your business strategy.<\/h3>\n<p>We use plants in a flotation system that doesn\u2019t require energy consumption \/ electric energy and allows the integration of the plants in the landscape, it is very simple to maintain and does not generate sludge. The business model of Aquaphytex, is based in the biotechnological production of vegetable material, installation and maintenance of an innovative system of wastewater treatment, and it is a creative and dynamic company.<br \/>\nThe strategy of Aquaphytex is based in two points: the development of the areas in where the water is treated and the creation of companies around it, pointing that the Water doesn\u2019t belong to the big companies, but to the World population.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Check out what Agua Inc. is working on now in <a title=\"Turning Dumps Into Oases\u2014This Startup Is Shaping the Future of Water Management\" href=\"https:\/\/wary-sunlight.flywheelsites.com\/agua-inc\/\">this Unreasonable feature<\/a>.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Watch how this Unreasonable Institute entrepreneur is bringing a sustainable solution to a problem affecting  900 million people who lack access to clean water.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1488,1492,1538,1501,431,1529,1493],"tags":[265,218,267,586,1628,1645,449,359,355,485],"class_list":["post-19361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","hentry","category-energy-tags","category-health-tags","category-institute","category-2012_institute","category-talks","category-technology","category-water-tags","tag-energy","tag-environment","tag-health","tag-institute","tag-institute-12","tag-sanitation","tag-talk","tag-tech","tag-vid","tag-water","post_format-post-format-video"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - 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