Sustainable Innovations

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Sustainable Innovations | Harvesting Innovations for People Sustainable Innovations is a non-profit organization that employs innovations in technology, science and economics to build holistically sustainable social enterprises focussed on accessible drinking water and primary healthcare for poor rural communities and urban slums in India and other parts of....

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Finding solutions to India’s freshwater challenge Inside the extraordinary effort of two environmentalists to safeguard the country’s lakes and rivers—and the life that depends on them.

Sustainable Innovations' work has been featured in the May 2020 AARP Purpose Prize Newsletter. Our founder, Dr. BP Agrawal, was the recipient of the 2012 Purpose Prize. To read more about the award and our work, visit: https://encore.org/purpose-prize/bhagwati-agrawal/

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Our second event is this Friday, February 7th, at Santa Clara University. Please come out and hear more about scaling social enterprises from our founder, Dr. BP Agrawal.

Sustainable Innovations' work and our founder, Dr. BP Agrawal's, story has been featured on the Indiaspora blog. Indiaspora is a non-profit organization established to transform the success of the Indian diaspora into meaningful impact worldwide. To read the blog, visit:

From Heirloom to Sustainability: My Lessons for Scaling Social Enterprises - Indiaspora ...

Please join us for our events on February 6th and February 7th to hear our founder, Dr. BP Agrawal, speak more about Sustainable Innovations' work in scaling up social enterprises.

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We are in Sardarpura, a sleepy village 150 KM southwest of New Delhi, India. Women have gathered at the village square. They are tapping empty matkas, earthen water pots, to produce melodious beats. One is humming the lament of the bride,

“Dhola thare desh men, moti marvan aant. Daroo milti mokali, paani ki koni chhant.”
Oh, Beloved!
In your land
Not a drop of water
Brides have to fetch water from miles
It is hard to survive but for your love
Thus laments a bride.

The melody is drowned out by sudden commotion. The children start running on dusty streets yelling “Pani Aagayaa. Paani Aagayaa” (Water has come! Water has come!). Women wrapped in vibrant colors rush with their matkas, large clay pots, resting on their waists – only to join the queue of matkas that arrived before them. The water tanker had just arrived. It only took two weeks. “How scarce is water here?” I ask. A voice speaks from the crowd “Why ask? Just count the number of bachelors.” I am puzzled. What is the relationship between water scarcity and the number of bachelors? Another voice unravels the mystery. “No father or brother wants to marry off his daughter or sister in this village as she would then have to spend all day fetching water for her new family.” I’m rendered speechless.

Our next series of stories will focus on our founder, Dr. BP Agrawal’s, personal struggles of watching people suffer without access to clean water in India. These experiences inspired him to found Sustainable Innovations’ social enterprise to combat water scarcity-- Aakash Ganga. To learn more about Aakash Ganga and how you can support our endeavor, visit us here: https://www.si-usa.org/aakash-ganga, https://www.si-usa.org/take-action

People pay more attention to water than the climate

Water, unlike a mass of carbon atoms, is visible and tangible. Abstract discussions about emission caps and parts per million concentrations become immediately concrete when the talk turns to drought and deluge. Developing countries may not have the infrastructure or governance capacity to withstand the water cycle spasms that will occur in a warming world. (https://www.circleofblue.org/2019/world/5-things-you-need-to-know-about-water-and-climate/)

Our sustainable, holistic, and effective solution to water scarcity, Aakash Ganga, allows all the basic human right to have clean water. To learn more about Aakash Ganga and how you can support our endeavor, visit us here: https://www.si-usa.org/aakash-ganga, https://www.si-usa.org/take-action