“We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.” said Winston Churchill many years ago. But the thing with universal principles is that they are relevant always, everywhere. And Dinesh Jain’s efforts to quench the thirst of thousands in Chennai stand testimony to it.
Dinesh Jain, an entrepreneur from Bangalore, learned that Chennai was short of drinking water. There was sewage and flood water all around, but not a drop was edible. And the demand for drinking water was urgent and intense.
Dinesh has set up a mobile drinking water plant, that can convert at least 20,000 tons of any kind of water to drinking water at a given time. Capable of being moved from place to place, this is exactly what Dinesh has begun doing in the worst flood hit areas of Chennai.
The plant, called Amritdhara works on the technique of Reverse Osmosis (RO) where, the unclean water is passed through high pressure chambers and then cleansed with Alum (Aluminium Sulphate). Then the water goes through a semi permeable membrane for reverse osmosis, at the end of which the water is 99.1% free of pollutants.
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Though Dinesh is yet to begin, as purification check is pending, he has said that he hasn’t received any help from the Government and only recently got permission to proceed. Dinesh also added in an interview that “Money is not everything.”
True, money can’t do what one man can do for another.
Folomojo wishes the enterprising and generous Dinesh all the luck he would need to quench the thirst of the afflicted.
