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A GE press release dated November 19, 2008 included this:
GE Water & Process Technologies today announced it has donated and transferred operational ownership for two advanced water treatment systems to Dongguang County, which will provide clean drinking water for more than 40,000 residents in Dongguang City. Dedicated as a gift to the people of China, the systems are designed to help protect human health by removing fluoride and other containments for clean, sustainable, potable water.
GE next will donate a mobile water treatment plant that will purify water for the neighboring villages of Dongguang and supply clean drinking water to an additional 20,000 residents. This plant will be the first application of an advanced mobile water treatment system used in China to bring clean water to areas that are not within reach of the nation’s municipal water infrastructure.
GE’s water treatment solutions can treat virtually any water source and could potentially play a key role in helping China meet its goal of providing safe, reliable water supplies by 2015 to more than 300 million people living in rural areas.
I applaud the people at GE for this great humanitarian work. 60,000 people have clean water now who did not before. And in 8 more years, 300 million more people will have clean water. I’m seeing good here.
I’m not naive enough to think GE is not making money on this some how. Stockholders aren’t investing in a charitable cause. They want to see profit. That’s fine with me.
One of my beliefs is that we are capable of providing clean water for everyone on the planet. The government of China seems committed to making that a reality. This goes to my point that political will, not technology, is lacking when people don’t have clean water.
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November 19th, 2008 at 11:40 am
I guess the question is, what’s in ti for GE?
November 20th, 2008 at 6:18 pm
@TheInfamousGdub -
GE is in business to make money. They are going to do that either way. So why question their motives? We know their motives.
60,000 people get clean drinking water who did not have it before. That works for me.