more-inIn time for World Water Week in August last year, UNICEF stated that women and girls around the world collectively spend 200 million hours a day collecting water. “I was a little tired of traditional development,” Tata tells me over the phone from Mumbai, while she is stuck in a traffic snarl. “What XPRIZE was doing was a very different development model, and I was surprised how well it scaled. Other ongoing prizes have teams trying to speed up ocean exploration and successfully land a rover on the moon. It is the ingenuity of people, who come up with these things and still keep jobs and families going, that is humbling.”

Source: The Hindu May 15, 2017 14:45 UTC