Archive for July, 2009
GE Water Filters, Quenching the Worlds Thirst
General Electric/GE is recognized by Forbes 2009 as the worlds largest company. Originally started in 1890 by the late Thomas Edison, GE merged with Thomson Houston Company in 1892 to bring together several of its other businesses. The company took off in 1911 with its lightning business and was registered as the first industrial park in the world.
Dating back to its start in the light business, GE has really broadened its scope. Currently, General Electric includes a multitude of companies in the fields of aviation, air transport, jets, electrical power, media, financial sector, gas and wind turbines, automation, lighting, medical imaging machinery, software, engines, and rail.
Impact On Environment
With a wide diverse range of business sectors, one would automatically know the great implications such a business could have on our fragile environment. It is undeniable that GE has a wide record of both water and air pollution, but unlike other companies GE has since set up various large scale environmental initiatives to help rectify its wrong and further promote our eco friendly era. Eco imagination the new initiative developed by GE and is aimed at helping solve the biggest environmental challenges the world faces today. Three years has since pasted since the initiative first started in 2004 and GE has already surpassed its target of greenhouse gas reductions by 1.01 million metric tones and its energy usage by 4.42 million MMBtus.
Shortage Of Water-An Ongoing Crisis
Water shortages and unsafe water hinder the growth of nations around the world. In response to the limited amount of clean and safe drinking water around the planet GE has created a water filter. GE has poured all available resources into creating a filter that strives to improve conservation, reuse, and increase the availability of safe drinking water
In a case study, GE is at the forefront of a profound transformation converting one of the plants more abundant yet unusable resources to an essential substance of life. Using a reverse osmosis process that is more energy efficient and cost effective than alternative methods the largest desalination plant in Africa has been built. On February 2008 the Hamma plant in Algeria’s capital was opened and is currently supplying clean drinking water to over 1.5 million people. Using this new initiative to kick start its environmental campaign, GE water filter is quenching the worlds thirst for clean water one country at a time.
GE water Filter & Process Technologies is revolutionizing the recycling of waste water in the American southwest and around the world. In the city of Tempe, AZ, GE with its GE water filter project has increased the productivity of the citys water reuse capabilities enormously, allowing the recycling of an additional 2.5 billion gallons of water per year. With eco-imagination and new GE water filter processes, the purity of recycled water is now making it a valuable resource, changing the environment, changing lives and bringing new hope to a thirsty world.