India's Rite Water is making a name for itself in the country's water and energy sectors by using cutting-edge technology to solve some of the country's biggest problems.
Among them: cleaning the Ganges, monitoring water supply in 2,000 villages, and installing electro-chlorination plants in 15,000 villages to disinfect 1.5 billion liters of water a day, TICE reports.
"This initiative not only preserves the sanctity of the Ganges but also serves as a replicable model for cleaning rivers nationwide," the company says in a press release.
The plants are being built as part of the government's Jal Mission, which aims to provide clean drinking water to 30 million people by 2019.
Rite Water says it plans to expand the project to 50,000 villages, extending the benefits of clean water to even more rural people.
The company says it's the first to install large-scale electro-chlorination plants on a large scale in India, and it plans to use the technology to clean the entire country's sewage system, as well as clean the entire river system on the Ganges.
It's not the company's first foray into the world of technology: It has also developed an Internet of Things (IoT) system to monitor water supply and power in Maharashtra, the world'
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