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SMARTERHOMES TECHNOLOGIES AMONG SIX FINALISTS IN URBAN WATER CHALLENGE GLOBAL INNOVATION COMPETITION

August 23, 2019 | The Hindu Business Line

Smarterhomes Technologies, a Bengaluru based utility automation company that provides smart water metering solutions, is one among the six finalists in the worldwide Urban Water Challenge, an annual global innovation competition that deploys and invests in scalable water solutions for tomorrow’s mega cities.

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BENGALURU BASED STARTUP FINALIST IN URBAN WATER CHALLENGE

August 22, 2019 | Economic Times

Bengaluru based Smarterhomes Technologies, a utility automation company that provides smart water metering solutions, is one among the six finalists in the worldwide Urban Water Challenge, an annual global innovation competition that deploys and invests in scalable water solutions for tomorrow’s megacities.

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BLUEWATER WATER PURIFIERS OFFER RAY OF HOPE TO AMERICANS WORRIED ABOUT LEAD IN THEIR DRINKING WATER

August 19, 2019 | Process Industry Match

As the Newark lead water crisis further underlines the problems besetting America’s tap water quality, water purification leader Bluewater has just said its high-performance, compact water purifiers offer a ray of hope to Americans fearful of what’s in their tap water.

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MEET THE ENTREPRENEURS REIMAGINING A WATER-RESILIENT FUTURE

August 14, 2019 | Medium

Urban communities are at the frontlines of the global water crisis. While Chennai grapples with a worsening water shortage, Day Zero has become a reality for a majority of the city’s 10 million residents. Cape Town averted the unthinkable in 2018, but conservation measures remain in place and long-term resilience uncertain. As recent as 2014, São Paulo, Latin America’s largest city, almost ran out of water. The pressures faced by cities will continue to build. By 2050, the UN estimates that an additional 2.5 billion people will be living in urban areas.

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HOW THE R&A ERADICATED SINGLE-USE PLASTIC WATER BOTTLES FROM THE OPEN 2019

August 1, 2019 | The Sustainability Report

The connection between golf’s oldest major and the coast made tackling marine pollution ‘a very fitting topic’. Philip Russell, the governing body’s assistant director of sustainability, explains how it was done.

Golf is facing a fight for its future. Increased rainfall, extreme weather events, coastal erosion and rising sea levels are either resulting in extended periods of course closure or posing an existential threat.

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BRITAIN’S OPEN CHAMPIONSHIP GOES PLASTIC-FREE

August 1, 2019 | CNN

The Open Championship became the first of men’s golf’s majors to end the use of single-use plastic water bottles for players and spectators alike.

NEW STUDY REVEALS INCREASED THREAT FROM MICROPLASTICS IN TREATED WATER

July 26, 2019 | Green Living Guy

Bluewater, a global leader in water purification technology and solutions. They are calling for urgent new strategies to tackle plastics pollution. Because after a UK university study revealed water treatment processes exacerbate plastics. They help to break down microplastics into nanoplastics.

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BRITAIN’S OPEN CHAMPIONSHIP GOES PLASTIC-FREE

July 22, 2019 | CNN

The Open Championship became the first of men’s golf’s majors to end the use of single-use plastic water bottles for players and spectators alike.

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BRITISH OPEN 2019: YOU MIGHT BE SURPRISED AT WHAT’S MISSING AT THIS YEAR’S OPEN CHAMPIONSHIP

July 21, 2019 | GolfDigest

Gaze to the north of Royal Portrush Golf Club and there’s water as far as your eyes will take you. At least, that is, when your head isn’t stuck under an umbrella dodging the rain that comes and goes almost daily in these parts.

Water, water, everywhere. But at this year’s Open Championship, there is one place you won’t find it: being sold on the Dunluce Links.

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THE OPEN AND BLUEWATER REDEFINE HOW MAJOR EVENTS CAN SHAPE A MORE SUSTAINABLE FUTURE

July 21, 2019 | Golf Daily

The R&A has taken the initiative to demonstrate a here-and-now solution that will redefine how major events can shape new business models that help shape a sustainable future that’s good for the planet and humans alike

Visitors to The 148th Open golf championship in Portrush, Northern Ireland, will notice a remarkable new addition to the prestigious event – cool looking personal stainless steel refillable water bottles that are being carried by thousands of visitors to Royal Portrush instead of previously used single-use plastic water bottles.

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