http://www.nextbillion.net/blogs/2005/04/05/ul-and-iit-design-for-the-bop-project Comments for "UL and IIT Design for the BOP Project" en http://www.nextbillion.net/blogs/2005/04/05/ul-and-iit-design-for-the-bop-project <p><a href="www.ul.com"></a><a href="www.ul.com">Underwriters Laboratories Inc</a>. (UL), Chicago, and the <a href="http://www.id.iit.edu/">Institute of Design</a> at Illinois Institute of Technology announced that UL will provide a $25,000 grant to support the institute’s efforts to design cost-effective ways to transport and distribute drinking water in the slums of Mumbai, India. The initiative is part of the institute’s <a href="http://www.id.iit.edu/profile/gallery/design_for_BoP/">Design for the Base of the Pyramid project</a>, which aims to create new products and services that improve daily life and generate sustainable economic growth in the developing world’s impoverished cities.</p> <p><a href="http://www.nextbillion.net/blogs/2005/04/05/ul-and-iit-design-for-the-bop-project">read more</a></p> http://www.nextbillion.net/blogs/2005/04/05/ul-and-iit-design-for-the-bop-project#comment Miscellaneous Water Tue, 05 Apr 2005 10:01:20 -0400 _Steve L 206 at http://www.nextbillion.net