HVR has successfully inaugurated its water purification installation that has been test-operated for five years at a school in Odisha, India.
Our project partner, Indo-Swedish Rheumatology Foundation, writes:
“Having seen school children being relieved of joint pain, stomach pain, neurological symptoms and growth disorders, you can only hope that HVR’s water purification skills will spread not only in India’s poorest state, Odisha, but worldwide!!”
Professor Urban Rydholm
Co-founder of Shakuntala Rheumatology Hospital
Sida financed a large part of the profitability study carried out by KTH. The project was subsequently included as a key focus area in Sida’s development program for Bangladesh. Due to political conflicts in Bangladesh, we moved our work from Bangladesh to India, and the focus shifted from arsenic to fluoride. In India, we have tested our installation for five years with strong results. It was therefore inaugurated in February 2026.
During the past year, we have also resumed our work in Bangladesh. We now have a list of around a dozen authorities, institutions, and private companies that want to test our technology. We are currently working to finance a first demonstration installation in Bangladesh as well.
At the same time, we are planning an expansion of the installation in India. At present, it is sufficient to provide the school children with clean drinking water. The next step is that they should also be able to take water home so that their families can drink and cook with it. Even though every small contribution of absolutely pure water during the day helps, completely pure water for both drinking and cooking is the best source of nutrition and safety for the entire family.
Summary
Everyone must have access to clean water for drinking and cooking.
This is the message the United Nations emphasizes at its water conferences, which are held every ten years. Yet, according to WHO and UNICEF, at least two billion people still have to drink unhealthy water. In some cases, the water is also toxic, as in the well we purify in Odisha.
Why is there still no real improvement?
Not long ago, people used water from rivers and lakes. Today, these sources are polluted. Millions of wells have therefore been established to replace surface water.
In many places, however, these wells have unfortunately been found to contain high concentrations of harmful minerals. Hundreds of millions of people are now being slowly poisoned by arsenic, fluoride, uranium, lead, and other contaminants — and increasingly also by PFAS.
At the same time, several billion people still lack safe water and become acutely ill from various infectious agents.
HVR’s equipment removes all types of contaminants completely. The result is absolutely pure water.
We have spent decades developing a technology that produces absolutely pure water, and then developing a simple and cost-efficient method for applying that technology. Now, our first installation has been inaugurated.