the highest level of quality from our design and construction services. Our vision, on the other hand, is to create a world where access to water, shelter, and electricity is affordable. Integrity, excellence, innovation, and accountability are the core values that we practice in our company.
INTRODUCTION GN: How does your company define clean water and wastewater? Carandang: Clean water is also known as potable or drinking water while wastewater is any water which has been affected by human actions such as farming, commercial, residential, industrial, etc.
GN: How do people gain access to clean water? Do we have limited access to clean, drinkable water? Are we running out of it? Carandang: According to the United Nations, 783 million people do not have access to clean water and considering the demand of the growing population, this number will tend to grow. Providing access to clean water and sanitation is one of the basic human rights recognized by the UN during its 2010 General Assembly which place the main responsibility to the governments. We can help people to gain access to clean water by building dams to store storm run-offs and surface water, recharging aquifers, putting up wastewater treatment plants and distributing it to off-grid areas. Almost 900 million people have limited access to clean and drinkable water and the projected number of people that will be located in areas that has limited access to clean water shall rise to 3 billion if we are not going to act now. We are currently running out water supply but we can still turn the tide if we’ ll have a concerted action and focus all efforts to innovate and tackle this problem as soon as possible.
THE MACRO LEVEL OF THE WORLD’ S WATER TECHNOLOGY GN: Where are we today? What is the current situation of clean water and wastewater( locally or globally)? Carandang: There are numerous advancements in water technology today, however, these are mostly being developed in first-world countries. Sadly, development in the local water sector is slow and sporadic, and the start-ups are struggling to scale because people are not ready to accept
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