Innovation: Business as unusual. The pitch: accelerating innovation

14:00 Welcome and introduction

Sergio Campos, Water and Sanitation Division chief at IDB

14:05 Keynote remarks Scott Bryan, President at ImagineH2O

14:10 Presentation of judgesModerator: Ronja Sørensen, YSPC

• Mariano Montero, Director at FEMSA Foundation

• Anders Jacobson, CEO at Blue AB

• Eleanor Allen, CEO at Water For People

• Kit Krugman, President and Chair, WIN: Women in Innovation

14:15 Pitches

• Jochen Raimann

• Yolwin Jed Perales

• Christian Walder

• Leah Page Jean

• Joseph D`Alba,

• James Peterson

• Odwa Ntsika Mtembu

15:05 The audience vote on best pitch

15:20 Announcing prizes and closing remarks by Kit Krugman, from WIN: Women in Innovation

15:30 Close of session by Will Sarni, Water Foundry

Keynote Scott Bryan

President at ImagineH2O

@ImagineH2O

Judges

Mariano Montero, Director at FEMSA Foundation

Anders Jacobson, CEO at Blue AB

Eleanor Allen, CEO at Water For People

Kit Krugman, President and Chair, WIN: Women in Innovation

Jochen Raimann

Decentralized water purification using novel membrane

filtration technology to improve community health

Jochen G. Raimann, MD, PhD, MPH; Joseph Marfo Boaheng, PhD; Philip Narh, MD; Seth Johnson, RN; Linda Donald, MBA; Hongbin Zhang, PhD; Fritz Port, MD, MS, Nathan W. Levin, MD.

Providing clean drinking water in rural areas withcontaminated water sources and no power.

• United States NGO (501c3)

• Main objective:Provision of clean water to those that have none

• Operative in two regions in Ghana; expansion planned

• Recycled hemodialyzers, used in kidney patients,employed to remove bacteria and viruses from polluted water

• Requires no electricity and no disinfectants

• Allows for backflush and requires little maintenance

Kumasi Big AdaGhana

❑ 8 re-used hemodialyzers assembled in parallel.

❑ Cleans up to 250 to 500 L/h

❑ One assembly serves villageswith 100 to 500 people

❑ CLEAN WATER fordrinking,meals andhandwashing

Community Health Survey17 communities in Ghana3311 people in remote villageswith poor infrastructure andno electricity and clean water

❑ Decreasing trend in incidence rates of diarrhea following the implementation of a membrane filtration device

❑ Possible effects on hard outcomes such as acute kidney injury in progress

❑ Widespread recycling of used sterilized dialyzers could have global impact on solving the problem of access to clean water

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before after

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Yolwin Jed Perales

Meet Shaira

15 years old

Lives in a small scale mining community

Travels 1 hour to collect water

Inaccessibility

High-cost Compromising health

The Solution

Cheesecloth filters objects >0.2 mm

Pebbles and sand to trap bacteria and ions

Activated charcoal to adsorb ion

Ag-modified zeolite as pH neutraliser, filter to remaining

metal ions, bacteria and viruses

The potential impact

500 000 Filipinos living in mining areas

19 million Filipinos without access to safe water

2 billion people globally who are dependent on unsafe water

Provides clean and safe drinking water

Environment friendly

Low-cost Easy to create and maintain

Christian Walder

Problem: Septic tank and latrine wastes are not treated safely or re-used in Cambodia

Christian Walder, Michael WhiteAsian Development Bank

Solar Septic Tank

Solution:

➢ Conventional septic tank/latrine pit

➢ Modified by adding solar-heated water

➢ Increases temperature in tank (40-50°C)Tap water

5L Storage Tank

Solar Heated System

Pump

Solar panel

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Disinfection Chamber

650 L Septic tank

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Innovative - Increased temperature:

➢ Pathogen removal (4-6 log reduction)

➢ Converts organic wastes into methane (biogas)

➢ Reduces sludge accumulated through anaerobic digestion

Solution for Rural and/or Peri-urban Areas Why is it needed?

➢ Rural sanitation coverage only 50%

➢ Increasing peri-urban areas in cities

➢ Latrine coverage increasing

➢ Pour-flush latrines now the norm

➢ Limited options for treatment/disposal

Applicability:

➢ Hot climate & year-round sunlight

➢ Reducing cost of solar panels

➢ Assists in achieving SDG6

➢ Opportunities for replication

Thailand

Phnom Penh Viet Nam

Lao PDR

Kg. ChhnangPursat

Solar Septic Tank – Field Test Results➢ 2 health clinics & 2 schools, 4

households in Cambodia and Thailand

➢ Results for household SSTs:

• TSS in 5-8,000 / out 50-60 mg/l

• COD in 10-15,000 / out 250-300 mg/l

• BOD in 3-4,000 / out 45-65 mg/l

Community feedback:

➢ 87-100% would use byproducts (water, electricity, fertilizer)

➢ 87% - O&M easier than old system

➢ 87% - safer and less odor

➢ 60% - affordability/price an issue

Asking funding for:

➢ Replication and upscaling

➢ Review tests for clinics and schools

➢ Developing a local business model (circular economy)

Leah Page Jean

SCALING SAFELY-MANAGED SANITATION SERVICES IN NORTHERN

HAITI

Leah Nevada Jean, SOIL Business Development Director

3.3 MILLION PEOPLE LIVING IN URBAN HAITI LACK ACCESS TO A TOILET.AGAINST THE BACKDROP OF A RISING GLOBAL POPULATION AND RAPIDLY GROWING

URBAN AREAS, THE CHALLENGE OF MEETING SDG 6 IS INCREASING.

HIGH

WATER

TABLE LIMITED

SPACE &

ROAD

ACCESS

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Locally manufactured

toilet

Customized small primary

transport

HOUSEHOLD TOILET SERVICE

Treatment and transformation

Pathogen testing of final

product

Compost sold commercially

WASTE TREATMENT

Multiple decentralised

depots

Large truck for

secondary transport

TOGETHER WE ARE DEMONSTRATING THAT IT IS POSSIBLE TO PROVIDE AFFORDABLE, SAFE,

AND DIGNIFIED URBAN SANITATION SERVICES.

WWW.OURSOIL.ORG

JOIN US ONLINE @SOILHAITI

Joseph D`Alba

THE IMPLICATIONS OF A SUSTAINABLE SOURCE OF POTABLE WATERTHE IMPLICATIONS OF A SUSTAINABLE SOURCE OF POTABLE WATER

PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY - 1962

“If we could

produce fresh

water from salt

water at a low

cost, that would

indeed be a great

service to

humanity, and

would dwarf any

other scientific

accomplishment.”

James Peterson

© Crystal IS, Inc. All rights reserved.

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Rural & Underserved

Communities

Rapid Urbanization

or Stressed Utilities

Modernized Water

Utilities

Access Challenges to Hygienic Water

Treatment

Source

© Crystal IS, Inc. All rights reserved.

Distributed Water Treatment with UVC LEDs

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UVC LED Disinfection at the Point of Use

• Energy efficient & instant on/off treatment

• Years of lifetime over 10’s of thousands of gallons

Installed for drinking water only• Reduces required water treatment

capacity in communities by over 80%1X 15X 150X

Cost per

Liter –

7 years

home POU ~$0.30 $0.02 $0.002

UV Lamp System Klaran WRBottled

© Crystal IS, Inc. All rights reserved.

UVC LEDs: Increasing Access to Drinking Water

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Reduced total treatment capacity needs

Increased water access with new sources

Personal and off grid solutions

Renewed confidence in aging and unsafe

systems

20%

80%

Odwa NtsikaMtembu

WATER WIDE WEB 3.1:CIRCULATING URBAN WATER SYSTEM FOR

RENEWABLE ENERGY

Odwa Ntsika Mtembu

Department of Water and Sanitation & World Merit South Africa, (South Africa)

Stockholm World Water Week 2019

The Network

▪ Optimisation of energy circulation from utilised urban water sources

to develop self-supportive cities and islands on decentralised water

and energy systems.

▪ Our work has provided an innovative solution to close the current

energy gap in Amsterdam and will provide the quickest transition

away from the use of natural gas to 100% reliable and renewable

▪ Network:− Collection and storage

• Blue Battery

• Molten Salt Battery

− Reuse and recycle• SHARC System

• Small wastewater treatment plant

− Production and distribution• Small wastewater treatment plant

• Micro hydropower turbines

HOW IT WORKS

Energy Security

• Energy productions for Buiksloterham

- 10 TJ/year

- 2000 households

Energy Equity

• Good/ Flexible Storage Capacity

• Decentralized + Centralized Scales

Environmental Sustainability

• High Quality Renewable energy

• Reuse and Recycling Water networks

• Easily Disposable batteries

5 TJ from Heat Recovery System

4 TJ from WWTP

1 TJ from other sources

BENEFITS

THANK YOU! ENKOSI! MERCI!

Team members (from left to right):

• Emiel Geerts (Netherlands)

• Pann Ei Ei Phyoe (Myanmar)

• Odwa Ntsika Mtembu (Republic of South Africa)

• Alaa Al Hina (Sultanate of Oman)

Mary Roach

VeriSan

Accelerating sanitation scaling through mobile IT

Mobile applications and solutions support the delivery of services to the last mile: communication, remote monitoring, mobile payments.

EXPENSIVE KNOW-HOW

For most service providers, IT solutions remain out of reach

Funding that is available, promotes innovation over utilization

Introducing VeriSan

• Leverages the experience of 6 sanitation service providers with 45 combined years of experience

• Supports service delivery along the sanitation value chain: from customer on-boarding, payments, waste-collection and impact measurement

VeriSan: Key features

• Built to scale: New organisations can easily adopt VeriSan due to its unique system architecture that supports multiple instances

• Affordable: shares maintenance cost and improvements across all users

• Can be customized: language, process differences, and access to connectivity

• Integration with: mobile money, accounting software and bulk SMS provider

• Standardizes reporting: aggregates common metrics for impact reporting

VeriSan Status

Available to broader sanitation sector from January 2020

PILOT (ENDS SEPTEMBER)

MOBILE MONEY PROVIDERS

ACCOUNTING SOFTWARE

Who is the winner?