Clean Water Designs LTD. Public Funding

Water is a versatile resource that is vital to human health, yet 2.2 billion people around the world (1/3) do not have access to safe drinking water. Although abundant to the majority of the UK, it can be difficult to obtain drinking water to appropriate drinking standards in rural locations where properties are detached from utilities companies and reliant on untreated Private Water Supplies such as boreholes, wells and streams. Purifying raw Private Water Supplies, and brackish or seawater, is a crucial solution to increase drinking water access, but seasonality and storms lead to contaminant, temperature and salt concentration fluctuations, fouling traditional purification technologies. These limitations disadvantage rural communities, reducing economic growth in remote areas, as well as increasing reliance on plastic bottled water. Clean Water Designs, have developed a proprietary high-speed, low-energy distillation technology, capable of treating previously untreatable raw water sources including seawater, to drinking water standards, consistently, with no consumable parts, allowing this vital resource to be available on tap to rural homes and businesses anywhere in the world. In this project driven by user pull, CWD will: * optimise its thermodynamic system making the energy price/litre affordable and financially compelling; * introduce an Internet of Things integration to enable remote data gathering, device improvements and maintenance cost saving; * Significantly reduced its Bill of Materials and assembly cost through inventive design; * Produce three demonstrator prototypes enabling extended user trials in a relevant environment; and * Prepare for CE and Water Quality compliance enabling rapid commercialisation beyond the project. Clean Water Designs will bring this innovative UK invention closer to market, acting on existing user pull and letters of intent from rural commercial properties in need of sustainable solutions to their drinking water problems, and set the groundwork for rapid commercialisation and future international expansion, address our sustainable development goals.

Water is a versatile resource that is vital to human health, yet 2.2 billion people around the world (1/3) do not have access to safe drinking water. Although abundant to the majority of the UK, it can be difficult to obtain drinking water to appropriate drinking standards in rural locations where properties are detached from utilities companies and reliant on untreated Private Water Supplies such as boreholes, wells and streams. These limitations disadvantage rural communities in the UK and all around the world, and can be attributed directly to the reduced economic growth in remote areas, as well as a growing reliance on environmentally and financially costly plastic bottled water. Clean Water Designs, has the idea, aligned directly to UN SDG 6 Clean water for all, 3 Health and Wellbeing, 12 Responsible Consumption and 13 Climate Action, to develop the technology to bring the highest quality water to where it's needed, anywhere in the world at point of use, sustainably reducing the reliance on plastic bottled water in rural communities using a proprietary high-speed, low energy distillation technology. In this project, Clean Water Designs will use Human Centred Design to test and discover a new physical user interface, that will make adoption of their technology possible, gaining extensive user insights into the required power availability, water volumes, size and environmental measures, that will allow them to test and produce a bespoke market leading product for rural properties in the UK, and later the rest of the world. Developing their team, they will develop Planet Centred Design, Carbon Modelling capabilities to understand what a positive impact would look like for our idea. They will take into account the unique challenges and requirements of rural properties, making it fit for purpose for Scottish Island properties as a starting point, and focus on: Inspiration - understanding and describing the user context and defining the user requirements; Ideation - drafting design solutions, and testing and evaluating those solutions; and Implementation - Business Planning and Development Toward Commercialisation. In this project, Clean Water Designs will bring this innovative UK invention closer to market, acting on existing user pull and letters of intent from rural property owners in need of a sustainable solution to their drinking water problems, and set the groundwork for international expansion to address our sustainable development goals.

Water is a versatile resource that is vital to human health. Although it has many uses in medical procedures and treatments, it can be difficult to obtain the correct quality and at the required quantities of water in some locations in the world. These limitations disadvantage African communities and can be attributed directly to the reduced quality of treatments women receive, leading to secondary infection and death. Clean Water Designs has a mission to develop the technology to bring the highest quality water to where it's needed. In that pursuit, they have developed a patent pending technology that allows Medical Grade Water to be produced both energy and space efficiently, in greater quantities than the competition, and at reduced costs for medical facilities. Therefore, allowing this vital resource to be available on tap at hospitals and health clinics throughout Ghana. In this partnership project, they will further develop their technology and produce a bespoke product for the Ghanaian medical facilities, taking into account the unique challenges and requirements, making it fit for purpose for both centralised hospitals and local health clinics.