GE Water Filters, Quenching the Worlds Thirst

Born from the mind of the great inventor Thomas Edison General Electric merged with Thomson Huston Company in 1892. The company has taken off since then as a leader of industry to become in 2009 the world’s largest company.

Dating back to its start in the light business, GE has really broadened its scope. Currently, General Electric includes a multitude of companies in the fields of aviation, air transport, jets, electrical power, media, financial sector, gas and wind turbines, automation, lighting, medical imaging machinery, software, engines, and rail.

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.

Water Shortage-A World 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.

Today GE is among the leaders of positive environment change excelling especially in gas emission reductions,energy saving and water recycling. In Algeria North Africa GE has completed a 200 million dollar project that brings good clean drinking water to over 1.5 million people. The Hamma Desalination plant uses a reverse osmosis approach when filtering water and this project has undoubtedly brought overwhelming hope, health and well-being to the residents of Algiers. GE water filter project is just one of the many projects that will take place to boost environment issues that plague our dying world.

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.