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The “Innovation 4 Water Impact” platform proposed by the Rotoplas team, was selected for the United Nations Global Compact Leaders Summit. |
After competing with 13 applicant companies, Rotoplas was selected as the sole representative of Mexico for the UN Global Leaders Summit, which aims to bring together decision makers so that through working sessions, workshops and meetings, companies can contribute to the resilience of communities to face three global crises: health, inequality and climate.
The project was presented during the SDG Futures Lab sessions, where Rotoplas participated along with projects from the US, UK, Brazil, Denmark, Lebanon, South Africa, Turkey, Bangladesh and Ukraine.
Through this Innovation Hub or platform called “Innovation 4 Water Impact”, Rotoplas seeks to link the actors of the innovation ecosystem in solutions that contribute to achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goals for Clean Water and Sanitation (SDG 6), as well as Innovation (SDG 9), Ending Poverty (SDG 1), Health (SDG 3), Education (SDG 4), Gender Equality (SDG 5), and Reduction of Inequalities (SDG 10). All of this from an approach aligned with the company’s mission, that people have more and better water.
The purpose of the platform is to connect ideas, proposals and needs with water solutions that will allow transforming the reality of water and sanitation in Latin America. In the platform, challenges are launched for community impact projects (donations or co-investment), validation of technologies, prototypes, business ideas, among others. The platform evaluates the proposals received to trigger community impact that will solve the water needs that cause semi-urban and rural inequalities. From collaborative schemes that promote impact projects, Rotoplas recognizes that it can contribute to the water needs at the base of the pyramid.
On June 15, 2020, the first call for the submission of projects “Agua x nosotros” was released, focusing on projects that solve the three categories identified by Rotoplas:
- Water Basic Availability
- Water reduce, reuse and recycle
- Integrated in-household solution
We invite you to participate in the call in the following link:
https://rotoplas.com/innwai-water-innovation-hub/?lang=en
In this way, through the detection of innovative ideas to solve social problems related to water, Rotoplas seeks to innovate in order to generate an impact on its environment.