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2013: India

Stories about Sarvajal

7 Young Entrepreneurs Changing The World With Their Businesses

These companies’ founders are all members of a new generation of entrepreneurs who are looking to find disruptive ways of making money while also giving back.

7 Young Entrepreneurs Changing The World With Their Businesses

Turning Rural Indians Into Water Entrepreneurs

Anand Shah’s Sarvajal is bringing clean water to India, but with a twist: the franchise model.

Turning Rural Indians Into Water Entrepreneurs

Making Clean Water Profitable With The McDonald’s Model

If every village had its own local water entrepreneur, maybe they would do a better job providing clean water. That’s the model Sarvajal uses in India–franchising water purification equipment to create a network of successful clean water businesses.

Making Clean Water Profitable With The McDonald’s Model

Solar-Powered Water ATMs Provide Clean Drinking Water To The Thirsty

Impact

This new Ikea store has zero parking spaces

In this new neighborhood, every building will be made entirely out of wood

Microsoft is going carbon negative, will reduce more carbon than it has emitted in its history as a company

Creativity

Watch this YouTuber’s creative correction of the nightmarish character design in ‘Cats’

What Beyoncé’s Ivy Park x Adidas launch means for the new age of celebrity brands

How Amazon’s new movie ‘Troop Zero’ got its magical realism

Co.Design

Ceramics get a futuristic makeover

Unlike Ikea, this easy-to-assemble couch won’t test your relationship

Move over, princesses. These girls’ clothing brands glorify science

Work Life

4 signs you might be more ageist than you think

4 ways to get over the new-job jitters

How to reinvent your email as a productivity tool