N.E.W. Innovations today for Tomorrow's Traditions
Quick Facts:
* There are 1.1 billion people lacking access to safe drinking water. (1)
* Bacterial outbreaks and "boil alerts" are an everyday growing trend in the U.S.
* Individual, residential water treatment costs will grow to $41.5B by 2011. (2)
* Municipalities are beginning to use ultraviolet light to replace chlorine. (3)
Sandia National Laboratories concluded their research on Ultraviolet Water Purification Systems for Rural Environments and Mobile Applications by stating; "Our research identified several potential advantages of employing LEDs over lamp based systems, including potential for longer lifetimes of the UV sources (LEDs) before replacement and the ability to include more frequent on-off cycles in the overall design. These benefits are related to lower life-cycle costs, more reliable designs and overall sustainability of the complete water purification solution (purifier + energy source)." (4)
A word from the President:
"I am proud to be working in northeast Ohio with my partners Alan Monteforte, and Tom Logan working, on a world changing technology using state of the art devices (UV LEDs)" said Damien Lieggi, the
Company President.
(1) - UNICEF and the World Health Organization (WHO) billion lack clean drinking water: UNretrieved fromhttp://www.abc.net
(2) - 2005 Global Residential Water Treatment Equipment Market Outlook, Frost & Sullivan www.frost.com
Cashing in on $15 Billion Opportunity in Global Residential Water Treatment Equipment Market, Hindustan Times, March 10, 2006
(3) - Municipalities in Las Vegas and New Jersey
(4) - Crawford, M.; Banas, M.; Ross, M.; Ruby, D.; Nelson, J.; Boucher, R.; Allerman, A.; (2005) Final LDRD report; Ultraviolet water purification systems for rural environments and mobile applications. Sandia Report. (Nov.2005.) Retrieved on May 10, 2006 from<http://www.prod.sandia.gov.
