The absence of quality drinking water is one of the major issues in this country. With ever-decreasing levels of purity, most of those who can afford to do so have taken to drinking RO water.

However, many of them do not seem to realise that this kind of water is not always good for their health in the long run.

“We wanted to step in and fill that gap by re-purifying RO water and reversing its ill-effects, to generate clean drinking water,” says 17-year-old Prateek Singh, from Delhi Public School, Amritsar.

Along with Nitya Devgan and Dorothy Sood, Prateek, a Class 12 student, took ten months to create the ‘Mejorado RO’, an improved RO purification system.

“Ideally, drinking water should have a PH value between 7.8-8.3. However, in most purifiers, it is between 6.2 -6.8. Additionally, the purification system also eliminates important minerals present in the water. Our prototype not only allows water to be at the correct PH value but the salt electrolytes installed in the device enhance its mineral content,” he adds.

Prateek mentions that the team members have been using their innovation to purify the RO water available in the school and also perfecting its technology so that it can eventually be implemented in various other places like other schools, colleges, and hospitals.

“We are also trying to find a way to make the technology more cost-effective because we believe that clean drinking water is a necessity, and we want to make it available to all citizens.”