GE Water Filters, Changing Our Water Systems As We Know It.
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.
Since the days of the lighting sector, GE has ventured out and diversified. Today, General Electric has a Conglomerate of businesses; Aviation, Aircraft, Jet Engines, Electricity, Entertainment, Finance, Gas Turbine, Generation Industrial Automation, Lighting, Medical Imaging Equipment, Medical Technology, Medical Software, Motors, Railway Locomotives and Wind Turbine.
Environmental Record
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
Realizing the huge effect that water shortages have on countries around the world, GE has applied the entirety of its resources, technology and experience. To combat the problem of water scarcity, eco-imagination strives to stop the waste and misuse of water resources globally while increasing water recycling and access to safe water supplies.
Examining a case study will reveal that GE is a leader of a complex change as it transforms one of the companies more common yet useless asset into a needed life form. Utilizing the method of reverse osmosis which is less expensive and saves more energy than other processes, Africa’s biggest desalination factory has been constructed. The Hamma factory was christened in Algeria in February 2008 and provides pure drinking water to more than one and a half million individuals at this time. Utilizing this innovative methodology to get a head start in its environmental movement, GE water filter is satisfying the palates of many nations-one at a time.
GE Water Filter & Process Technologies is a company who bases its principles on positive change. In the water industry GE is revolutionizing the world over with its new water initiatives in third world countries and even in the United States as well. In Arizona itself GE has improved water productivity in the city of Tempe. Thanks to GE’ s resources and experience this city has a boost of an additional 2.5 billion gallons of water per year. Whether in third world countries or in our backyard you can be assured GE is changing the world for the better even if you dont see it happening on your local news.
