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GE Water Filters, Making A World Of Difference
General Electric/GE originated in 1890 by Thomas Edison and is recognized by Forbes 2009 as the world’s largest company. In 1892 GE combined with Thomson Houston Company which united several businesses. This company grew significantly in 1911 because of its lightning business and also holds the honor of being 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
Given the multi-national presence of a corporation the size of GE, one would naturally assume that it would have had, over the years, in one or another of its divisions, a negative impact on the environment. Like many other large businesses, GE has in the past been responsible for extensive environmental damage, but it is unique in that it has resolved to become a champion of the environment rather than its enemy. Since 2004, through a variety of pro-conservation initiatives GE has dedicated itself to preserving and protecting the environment. These initiatives are working: GE has not only met but exceeded its own goal for the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions by 1.01 million metric tons; and it has decreased its overall energy use by 4.42 million MMBtus.
No Water Brings More More 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.
In a case study, GE is at the forefront of a profound transformation converting one of the plants more abundant yet unusable resources to an essential substance of life. Using a reverse osmosis process that is more energy efficient and cost effective than alternative methods the largest desalination plant in Africa has been built. On February 2008 the Hamma plant in Algeria’s capital was opened and is currently supplying clean drinking water to over 1.5 million people. Using this new initiative to kick start its environmental campaign, GE water filter is quenching the worlds thirst for clean water one country at a time.
Closer to home in south west America, the city of Tempe Arizona in collaboration with GE Water Filter & Process Technologies has recently improved its water reuse capabilities enormously. This new improvement allows the city of Arizona to reuse an additional 2.5 billion gallons of water per year. With this kind of productivity boost, recycling water in North America and around the world has changed forever. These are just two of the many outstanding GE water filter projects funded and implemented by eco-imagination. With the tremendous pace and purity now coming from recycled waste water, GE is revolutionizing waste water into a new valuable resource for the world. This positive impact is not just changing the environment but also changing individual lives, cities and countries which need that additional glimmer of hope.
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