WaterHealth India (WHIN) is a wholly owned subsidiary of WaterHealth International, a company that aims at providing scalable, safe drinking water solutions to underserved areas in India through advanced technology and self-sustaining business models based on WaterHealth Centres. These centres are modular structures that house water purification equipment to treat locally available water. Each WHC produces […]

Nepal: Rural Water Enterprise Development In the Nawalparasi district, about 79,000 people are at risk of drinking water that is contaminated with arsenic. Drinking such water over a long period is resulting in various health effects including skin problems, skin cancer, and cancer of the bladder, kidney and lung as well as other diseases. Through […]

The city of Karakol suffers from contaminated drinking water (causing the spread of epidemic disease) and serious leakage problems; the entire water supply system requires urgent rehabilitation. The project essentially involves rebuilding the drinking water treatment plant and the most damaged part of the distribution network, as well as ground-water pumps. The project also calls […]

The principle aim of a water access, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) project is to create conditions under which risk of waterborne disease transmission are minimised. However, providing a community or school with safe water that improves health conditions is not a matter of simply installing a new, clean source. It is also necessary that communities […]

Renewal of biological treatment and filtration system of Wastewater treatment plant Werdhölzli (620.000 PE), Zurich, Switzerland

IBG has realized the final engineering design of this twin pipeline water transmission system from the Persian Gulf to Riyadh City. A total length of 900 km of pipes with typical diameters between 1200 and 1800 mm has been placed within this project for transporting 900’000 m3/d of water. IBG’s very broad involvement includes for […]

The Back Bay, located on the southern tip of the city, is an area where pressures collide; it is a place on the edge of conflict, on the edge of the city – on contested waters. The goal of the project was to re-imagine the city of Mumbai through this waterfront – to develop and […]

The SRC Basic Health Care Project in Laos (since 1993) In Laos diarrhoeal diseases are ranked the third leading cause of death for children under 5 years of age, mainly due to poor access to safe drinking water and sanitation services. The SRC, present in country since the 1980ies, currently implements a WASH programme jointly […]

Background Our business relies on a healthy, thriving environment. So, in the last two years, we have given new emphasis to our approach to biodiversity. In addition to our existing use of Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) for product and packaging design, which incorporate biodiversity impacts, we have drawn on the knowledge of scientific experts to […]