Feature Stories
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Dow Makes Water Purification Plants Possible for Villages in India
In a collaborative effort, Dow India and Byrraju Foundation are helping rural villages gain access to drinking water. Dow is helping by providing villagers with funding to build local water purification plants. The Byrraju Foundation trains villagers how to operate the plants. Each plant can purify up to 1,000 liters of water an hour and, when operating to capacity, over 2,500 villagers will have access to drinking water.
Dow Funds Test to Promote Accessibility to Drinking Water
Dow and International Aid (IA) are working together to help increase the number of people who have access to drinking water. Using a donation from The Dow Chemical Company Foundation, IA recently started testing the plastic BioSand water filter system in Ghana, as part of field trials that will test the filter in three different locations around the globe. If the system passes these tests, IA will mass produce the filter for distribution through multiple NGOs in the developing world.
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Dow VORACOR™ Technology Safeguards 3,200 Year Old Statue of Ramses II in Egypt
Dow experts protected an 85-ton granite statue of the Egyptian pharaoh Ramses II by wrapping it in the Dow VORACOR™ rigid polyurethane foam system ensuring a safe, 10-hour journey for the monument from downtown Cairo to the new Grand Egyptian Museum in Egypt. VORACOR™ was selected because it met the specific flow properties, cell structure, compressive strength and density required for the safe transportation of the heavy statue.
