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WaterHealth International is a private, American multinational corporation headquartered in Irvine, California. The company operates as a social business that provides drinking water to communities in primarily rural areas.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Q&A: A Drinking Water ‘Game Changer’ )〕 WaterHealth purifies and retails water through decentralized plants termed "WaterHealth Center," which serve an average consumer base of 10000.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title= WaterHealth International, Inc. ) 〕 The company has installed around 500 WaterHealth Centers primarily in India, but also in Bangladesh, Ghana, Nigeria, and Liberia.〔 Daily output of purified water across all of the WaterHealth Centers falls around 1.4 million liters.〔 The company was founded in 1995 as a market development firm that operated primarily in Mexico and the Philippines.〔 By 2002 and 2003, however, the company reoriented its focus to water retailing services and began to center more heavily in Asia and Africa.〔 The company currently operates through wholly owned subsidiaries like WaterHealth India and WaterHealth Ghana.〔 In 2014, the company entered into a partnership with The Coca-Cola Company to provide one million children across 2000 schools in developing nations with purified water, as part of Coca-Cola’s Child With Water (CWW) initiative.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title= Coca-Cola Invests in WaterHealth International's Model for Sustainable Safe Water and Partners to Bring Safe Drinking Water to 1 Million School Children ) 〕 The two organizations also plan to raise social awareness of clean drinking water through educational programs. In addition to the CWW Initiative, The Coca-Cola Company has also taken a minority stake in WaterHealth. == History == WaterHealth was founded in 1995. The company began its operations when it won the bid to use a new Ultraviolet (UV) disinfectant technology invented by Ashok Gadgil, a researcher at the University of California, Berkeley who later became the Chief Technology Officer of WaterHealth International.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title= Success Stories: WaterHealth International ) 〕 Shortly after 1995, WaterHealth established UV Waterworks Plants in Mexico and the Philippines. After limited success in those areas, Tralance Addy, the CEO appointed to the company in 2002, shifted the company’s focus to water distribution and retailing in Asia and Africa.〔 WaterHealth International first entered India in 2006 through its subsidiary, WaterHealth India, in the South Indian state of Andhra Pradesh.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title= Dr. Water Changes Lives in Andhra Pradesh ) 〕 By 2011, the company had extended its operations to Gujarat and Karnataka.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title= Using Innovative, Low-cost Solutions to Provide Safe Drinking Water in India ) 〕 In 2008, WaterHealth International entered Ghana and in subsequent years, the company has established operations in Nigeria, Bangladesh and Liberia.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title= Ghana Market Assessment ) 〕〔 In 2009, Sanjay Bhatnagar was appointed as the CEO of WaterHealth International and Vikas Shah as COO. Tralance Addy currently serves as a member on the Board of Directors. As of mid-2010, more than 500 WaterHealthCenters (WHCs) have been installed in many countries including India, Bangladesh, Nigeria, Philippines, and Ghana, providing safe water to more than five million people around the world. WHI's aim was to take the UVW technology and its water system to needy communities throughout the world by establishing a global presence. In January of 2014, WaterHealth launched its nonprofit arm, the Jaldhaara Foundation. According to officials at Jaldhaara, the foundation aims to both provide purified drinking water and educate underserved people on its importance. Additionally, Jaldhaara hopes to teach women how to operate local WaterHealth centers.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title= Jaldhaara Foundation launched at Hyderabad ) 〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title= WaterHealth India Launches the Jaldhaara Foundation ) 〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「WaterHealth International」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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