Innovation : GE

Innovative water treatment processes are helping sites like Beijing's National Stadium fulfill their conservation goals.

Our water and process technologies around the world treat billions of gallons of water each year, making wastewater safe to reuse and reducing the strain on city supplies. In Beijing, the National Stadium has installed China's first rainwater recycling system using GE nanofiltration technology, which purifies rainwater for outdoor landscaping, fire suppression and more.

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Our desalination platforms are helping fast-growing cities like Algiers meet their expanding water demands.

Even seaside towns and cities can experience chronic water shortages, which is why GE desalination plants work to transform more than two billion gallons of seawater a day globally. In Algiers, the capital city of Algeria, GE operates the Hamma Seawater Desalination Plant, a facility that's capable of purifying enough water for more than one million people.

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Facing rising costs and water regulations, industries like Norway's fisheries are turning to wastewater treatment.

Each year, 22 percent of the world's water supply is used for industrial purposes. However much of that water is not reused. In Norway, advanced membrane solutions allow our customers in the fishing industry to process wastewater more cost-effectively and reduce the amount of marine waste they release.

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Our versatile purification solutions help make drinking water accessible - and progress possible.

Access to clean water can help alleviate many of the problems relating to health and sanitation in developing towns such as Kochi, India. Here, our Homespring water purification system is providing the Home of Hope orphanage with clean drinking water for the 80 girls that call it home.

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Water recycling systems in the places where we live and work help reduce our collective impact on the environment.

As the "green building" movement picks up pace, more residential and commercial buildings are reducing their environmental footprints. In Canada, the Vancouver Convention and Exhibition Center has installed a GE water recycling system to treat the building's wastewater and rechannel it for other uses, such as irrigating the building's living roof.

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We're reducing our water footprint to lessen our impact on the environment and save money along the way.

Our goal is to reduce GE's global water consumption by 20 percent from 2006 to 2012. To achieve this, we're installing ecomagination technologies in our own facilities, which should yield savings of more than 2 billion gallons of water each year.

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GE Water Products

Products from GE Water and Process Technologies help our customers - and our own facilities - reduce water use and create new and sustainable supplies of water. Our solutions range from desalination and advanced membrane technologies for industrial and commercial environments, to central water purifier systems for residential homes.

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