Venture:
change:WATER Labs
Founder:
Diana Yousef ’03BUS ’04SIPA
Industry:
Water and sanitation
Venture Type:
For-profit
What is the social or environmental issue being addressed?
Globally, 2.6B people lack access to safe, dignified sanitation. Government under-investment into infrastructure, increasing urbanization and crisis-related displacement have resulted in large populations lacking access to safe, proper sanitation. Providing non-sewered communities scalable improved sanitation will incur huge economic costs (for piping, collections, treatment) and unsustainable stresses on local water resources. In non-sewered communities, people must resort to unsafe sanitation options like open defecation and shared pit latrines.
Innovation:
change:WATER Labs develops disruptive frugal water technologies, including a revolutionary evaporative toilet to clean up off-grid and non-sewered communities by shrinking daily sewage volumes 85-99% onsite—its portable, low-cost and stand-alone toilets leverage super-water-absorbent polymers to passively vaporize liquid sewage, thus enabling complete sanitary containment, waterless and off-grid operability, and 10x reduced collections logistics.
Read More:
- Water Technology Companies: Seven Start-ups Bringing Tech To The Tap
Compelo
March 22, 2019 - The Secrets to a Successful Startup
Bloomberg
July 5, 2018 - This Toilet Vaporizes Poop To Solve Sanitation Problems
Fast Company
April 5, 2018 - Just Impact: Diana Yousef Wins Award for Syrian Refugees Water Crisis Solution
JUST Water
October 12, 2016 - 'Innovate for Refugees' Award Winners Announced in Amman
The Jordan Times
October 4, 2016 - Presentation at the 2015 Social Enterprise Conference
September 25, 2015 - MIT Ideas Global Challenge Award Announcement
MIT News
April 16, 2015 - Mass CEC Catalyst Award Announcement
Massachusetts Clean Energy Center
Jun 24, 2015