Luckily there are live webcasts for the rest of us who were not able to sit at the sessions and ask questions during the sessions at this year's Clinton Global Initiative.  I have spent a handful of hours during the last few days browsing around the content of this year's CGI, listening to some of the panel discussions and trying to get a feeling of the venue's commitments, which are its cornerstone and measure of future accountability.

However, I was able to recruit a great guest blogger that sat in many of the sessions at CGI. Stay tuned for her posts about the venue later this week. (By the way, if you are interested in a more detailed coverage of CGI make sure to take a look at the good job done by Philantopic live-blogging the conference).

Today I just want to highlight one of the sessions that discussed the challenges of clean water, sanitation and hygiene, which have become a passion of mine as I've had the opportunity to dive deeper into them over the last few months. Here are a few takeaways but I encourage you to watch the full video.

Community-scale water treatment: The promise of decentralizing access to vital services

One of panelists was Mr. Tralance Addy, President and CEO of WaterHealth International. His presence in the panel signaled the increased relevance of an approach that is successfully in bringing safe drinking water to millions in rural communities all across India: community scale water treatment.

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