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UL and IIT Design for the BOP Project

By _Steve L
Created Apr 5 2005 - 09:01

Underwriters Laboratories Inc [0]. (UL), Chicago, and the Institute of Design [1] 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 Design for the Base of the Pyramid project [2], which aims to create new products and services that improve daily life and generate sustainable economic growth in the developing world’s impoverished cities.

(Found at Pollution Engineering here [3].)


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