Over the course of the next year, the Team will employ local college students to maintain the program and monitor the efficiency of the water purification technology.

CNN: Students work to improve water quality in India

The project involved the installation of a water purification system capable of producing up to 20, 000 liters of drinking water per day and currently supplies over 600 residents with clean drinking water.

FORBES: Saran Kaba Jones: A Young African Woman And Her Water Legacy

And a project is underway today to create a solar-powered water purification system to supply the needs of 750-1500 people per day.

FORBES: Mobile Solar Generators - One Man's Odyssey to Bring Power Back to New York

So innovative is their product, they were recently awarded the 2012 Heart of Haiti award by the national parliament and plans are in place to distribute the water purification device throughout the country.

FORBES: Building A Generation of Sustainability Mavericks Because We Can, Or Because We Have To

In Port-au-Prince, a chaotic scene erupted as people clamored to reach the trucks of a World Food Programme convoy carrying water purification tablets, plastic sheeting, collapsible jugs and nutritional biscuits.

CNN: Haiti aid efforts hindered in critical hours

It supports processes that we all often take for granted, such as air quality, climate regulation, water purification, parasite and disease control, pollination and the prevention of erosion.

UNESCO: Message by UNESCO Director-General Irina Bokova

Slingshot is a vapor-compression water-purification machine that can produce about 30 liters of 100% pure distilled water per hour using the same power as a hair dryer consumes.

FORBES: Forget The Sequester: Entrepreneurs Are Saving The Future

The temple, built in the 9th Century, has 13 ornate spouts, and each stream of cool fresh water represents a different type of purification, from fertility and love to protection from evil spirits.

BBC: Changing lives and perceptions in Ubud