Make your voice heard by voting for your favorite water innovation for the Bayer Social Innovation Award! Choose your preferred startup in Latin America. Want to know more about each startup? Check out the profiles of the startups participating in the public voting and find out more about their innovative solutions.
2018
Brazil
Via a paraffin buck with nanominerals that activate the process of biostimulation, wastewater and wastewater treatment chemicals that are exotic to the system are mobilized to consume organic waste.
2017
Mexico
Solid Rain is a water saving alternative for the huge waste of water in the cities and in agricultural irrigation. Optimize and appreciate the use of water for irrigation and rain water. Is a potassium based polymer, with the capacity of adsorb and solidify up to 400 liters of water for each kilogram. The polymer act like a magnet over the water molecules, to solidify the water in gel form. Installs on the root zone of any plant, tree, grass, culture, vegetable, pots, greenhouse, etc.
2020
Venezuela
We help remote communities to have safe water access by providing a self-sustainable water purification system that works with a social-financial model. We focus on providing a virtuous cycle to the community of health, entrepreneurship (job creation), and empowerment. Using commercially valuable distilled water as a resource for a communal freemium model that gives free drinkable water to the vulnerable (school children, elderly, hospitals) and below market price for the rest.
2018
Mexico
RENAR is a company with a social dimension, committed to the sustainable development of communities, we implement sustainable innovations to satisfy present and future demands in terms of water access, providing technical support to develop and design green projects.
2013
Mexico
Ion Ag+ is a social and environmental impact company that develops technology aimed at solving the needs of quality, access and sanitation of drinking water, in urban, rural, indigenous communities and cities, impacting the 2030 objectives. Through a patented silver ionization nanotechnology product with UL certification (Underwriters Laboratories). Its systems have a QR code that works through a mobile app that generates a database of beneficiaries, which allows monitoring the impact.
2005
Colombia
EKOFIL is a family-owned small business focused on manufacturing a simple-to-use, portable, affordable, and eco-friendly clay-based water filter system. Our innovative filtering system is a COLLOIDAL SILVER-PLATED CLAY FILTER. As a small company with strong social responsibility, our goal is to partner with NGOs and other humanitarian aid groups to deliver clean and safe water to vulnerable communities, especially in rural areas across Colombia and neighboring countries.
2017
Mexico
SIRA uses a methodology that mimics Mother Nature and cleans water without the use of chemicals or neutralizers. Contaminated liquids flow through a device that contains customized “molecular healers” that transform dissolved, active solids into suspended, inert solids, later removed through a natural stone, sand and charcoal filtering process. The liquid is restored to its original clean state or cleaner.
2018
Chile
Remote Waters offers a water purification system (salt, brackish or for reuse) to permanently provide clean and safe drinking water to communities with limited access. With fast, easy, portable operation and the lowest operating costs on the market while remaining sustainable using solar energy and a remote monitoring system.
2020
Peru
Wayru Peru is a social enterprise that provides access to adequate personal hygiene to improve the quality of life of families with limited water availability. To do this, we created together with them, our innovation the 'Multipurpose Shower', a portable system that saves water and money. This is the starting point for our long-term goal: to develop healthy homes, establishing a before and after in the lives of these families.
Brazil
Safe Drinking Water (SDW) is a social impact startup that develops technologies focused on sustainability and health with high impact, low cost and high durability solutions. Among them is the Aqualuz Technology, which makes drinking water from cisterns possible in semi-arid regions.
2015
Chile
Technological innovation company with social and environmental impact that seeks a greater social inclusion with providing an alternative and renewable source of safe water from the air to thousands of homes without access to quality water. We're located in rural, sub-urban and urban areas, both in Chile and in the rest of the world, with the purpose of improving its habitability, quality of life and health. Development, design and assembly of systems for the generation of water from the air.