http://www.nextbillion.net/newsroom/2007/08/15/behind-one-effort-to-tap-into-indias-water-market Comments for "Behind One Effort to Tap Into India's Water Market" en http://www.nextbillion.net/newsroom/2007/08/15/behind-one-effort-to-tap-into-indias-water-market <div class="flexinode-body flexinode-4"><span class="flexinode-timestamp-13"> August 14, 2007 - 13:00, </span> <span class="flexinode-textfield-14"> Wall Street Journal</span> <div class="flexinode-textfield-15"> Behind One Effort to Tap Into India&#039;s Water Market</div><br> <div class="form-item"> <label>Story Link:</label> <a href="http://online.wsj.com/article_print/SB118704507307696475.html">http://online.wsj.com/article_print/SB118704507307696475.html</a> </div> <div class="flexinode--41"> <strong>Teaser: </strong><br /> This article highlights the difficulty of diving into the potentially massive, but messy business of selling clean water to poor people. Many have tried to help developing nations with their water problems; few have come up with a way to profit from the effort.<br class="clear" /></div> <div class="flexinode-textarea-6"> KAIKALURU, India -- After draining this town&#39;s pool of drinking water recently, cleaners found drowned rats and bloated lizards. But at least, as is common at other storage tanks across this parched land in eastern India, there were no dead monkeys.<br /><br />Kaikaluru&#39;s drinking water, filtered through sand from a nearby pond, is amber in color and alive with microbes. Even so, a survey of the town&#39;s residents showed that half the people still prefer it to a sanitized version dispensed at a new store operated by a tiny Orange County, Calif., company, WaterHealth International Inc.<br class="clear" /></div> </div> http://www.nextbillion.net/newsroom/2007/08/15/behind-one-effort-to-tap-into-indias-water-market#comment Water South Asia Wed, 15 Aug 2007 13:13:55 -0500 Ana Escalante 4343 at http://www.nextbillion.net