Born from the mind of the great inventor Thomas Edison General Electric merged with Thomson Huston Company in 1892. The company has taken off since then as a leader of industry to become in 2009 the world’s largest company.
Dating back to its start in the light business, GE has really broadened its scope. Currently, General Electric includes a multitude of companies in the fields of aviation, air transport, jets, electrical power, media, financial sector, gas and wind turbines, automation, lighting, medical imaging machinery, software, engines, and rail.
Environmental Record Impact
With a company so large you would naturally assume that the environmental impact over the years would be huge. Just as many other business GE over the years have been guilty of environmental damage, but as part of its new regime GE is starting to become a world wide environmentalist, caring about how it impacts mother nature. In 2004 as part of its new approach to the environment, GE has since exceeded its targets reducing its gas emissions by 1.01 million metric tons with an overall energy savings of 4.42 million MMBtus.
No Water Brings More More Crisis
Realizing the huge effect that water shortages have on countries around the world, GE has applied the entirety of its resources, technology and experience. To combat the problem of water scarcity, eco-imagination strives to stop the waste and misuse of water resources globally while increasing water recycling and access to safe water supplies.
In a case study, GE is at the forefront of a profound transformation converting one of the plants more abundant yet unusable resources to an essential substance of life. Using a reverse osmosis process that is more energy efficient and cost effective than alternative methods the largest desalination plant in Africa has been built. On February 2008 the Hamma plant in Algeria’s capital was opened and is currently supplying clean drinking water to over 1.5 million people. Using this new initiative to kick start its environmental campaign, GE water filter is quenching the worlds thirst for clean water one country at a time.
Closer to home in south west America, the city of Tempe Arizona in collaboration with GE Water Filter & Process Technologies has recently improved its water reuse capabilities enormously. This new improvement allows the city of Arizona to reuse an additional 2.5 billion gallons of water per year. With this kind of productivity boost, recycling water in North America and around the world has changed forever. These are just two of the many outstanding GE water filter projects funded and implemented by eco-imagination. With the tremendous pace and purity now coming from recycled waste water, GE is revolutionizing waste water into a new valuable resource for the world. This positive impact is not just changing the environment but also changing individual lives, cities and countries which need that additional glimmer of hope.
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