GE Water Filters, Making A World Of Difference
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.
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
With a company so large you would naturally assume that the environmental impact over the years would be huge. Just as many other business GE over the years have been guilty of environmental damage, but as part of its new regime GE is starting to become a world wide environmentalist, caring about how it impacts mother nature. In 2004 as part of its new approach to the environment, GE has since exceeded its targets reducing its gas emissions by 1.01 million metric tons with an overall energy savings of 4.42 million MMBtus.
Water Shortage-A World Crisis
Water shortages and unsafe water hinder the growth of nations around the world. In response to the limited amount of clean and safe drinking water around the planet GE has created a water filter. GE has poured all available resources into creating a filter that strives to improve conservation, reuse, and increase the availability of safe drinking water
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 filtration is satisfying the palates of many nations-one at a time.
GE water Filter & Process Technologies is revolutionizing the recycling of waste water in the American southwest and around the world. In the city of Tempe, AZ, GE with its GE water filter project has increased the productivity of the citys water reuse capabilities enormously, allowing the recycling of an additional 2.5 billion gallons of water per year. With eco-imagination and new GE water filter processes, the purity of recycled water is now making it a valuable resource, changing the environment, changing lives and bringing new hope to a thirsty world.
