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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>The '''Ripple Effect Project''' is a joint project of [[Acumen Fund]] and [[IDEO]] funded by the [[Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation]] to provide the poor with clean safe water started in 2009.<ref name="forbes">[https://archive.today/20130123172544/http://www.forbes.com/2009/09/10/ideo-acumen-fund-technology-breakthroughs-water.html "Getting Water To The World's Poorest"], ''[[Forbes]]'', September 11, 2009.</ref><ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20150118073933/http://articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com/2010-02-23/news/27585715_1_iit-delhi-industrial-design-centre-lalit-kumar-das "Designers live out real-life experiences"], ''[[The Economic Times]]'', February 23, 2010.</ref><ref>[http://www.fastcompany.com/mic/2010/profile/ideo "Most Innovative Companies 2010"], ''[[Fast Company (magazine)|Fast Company]]'', February 17, 2010.</ref> It has projects in both [[India]] and [[Kenya]].<ref name="forbes"/> The project collaborated with the Jal Bhagirathi Foundation, a non-profit in India, to fix a failed clean water station in the [[Thar Desert]] of India where locals were choosing to use closer contaminated water or contaminating clean water with non hygienic water vessels, and turned the resulting working project over to locals.<ref>[http://www.businessweek.com/innovate/next/archives/2009/10/design_thinking.html "Design Thinking Improves Conscious Capitalism"], ''[[Business Week]]'', October 20, 2009.</ref> The project collaborated with four Kenyan organizations, two of which were companies, to build commercial clean water supply systems using various methods of delivery.<ref>[http://www.businessdailyafrica.com/-/539552/815854/-/68t7rs/-/ "Plan for clean water to slums kicks off"], ''[[Business Daily]]'', December 2, 2009.</ref><br />
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* [https://www.rippleeffectproject.org/ Official website]<br />
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