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LEE'S SUMMIT, Mo. - The Missouri Department of Transportation is hoping to test driverless technology on some of its fleet as soon as next year.

June 28 was the deadline for companies to submit proposals to MoDOT on autonomous technology. Now, it is reviewing those proposals with hopes to have a vendor on board by late July.

"It's not like your autonomous car where you plug in an address and it just goes," said Chris Redline, Assistant District Engineer for MoDOT. "What this is going to do is follow the truck in front of it. We're talking low speeds. We're talking under 15 miles per hour. This would not be to get to the job site, this would be when we get to the job site."

It's part of an ongoing effort by the department to reduce work zone crashes and injuries involving TMAs, or Truck Mounted Attenuators. TMAs are a sort of crash cushion designed to crumple when hit.

"These crash cushions are designed to smash up," said Redline. "When they smash up, it reduces the energy, so the vehicle comes to a much slower stop than if they just crashed into the back of a dump truck. It saves countless lives every single year."

Since 2014, MoDOT has had 82 crashes involving TMAs.

"There's a person inside each of those 82 vehicles that has friends and family," said Redline. "We'd like to get our people out of those vehicles, and a driverless truck would make that happen."

Michael Suber is one of those drivers. His TMA was hit in January of this year.

"We were patching potholes on US-50 and I was following the pothole patcher," he remembers. "I noticed a truck coming close to me so I hit my panic lights to try and get him to get over in the passing lane. He did not and he his the TMA I was in. Pushed me over 100 feet. We were both taken to the hospital."

Suber had whiplash and other back issues, both caused by the crash.

"I couldn't pick up my kids, couldn't play with them, all because of someone's negligence," he said. "This is serious. This is our lives in danger."

Redline said MoDOT will be getting all of the equipment up to speed this year, with the hope to start testing the driverless technology in 2018.

"During the testing, we are always going to have a driver in that vehicle," he said. "That's part of the testing, and that driver will always have the ability to take over. It's a statute that a driver has to be present, and if we ever want to remove the driver, we need a statute change to allow it to be driverless."

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Many business leaders argue that technology is taking the "human" aspect out of human resources. However, from recruiting to hiring to connecting teams worldwide, the argument can be made that technology is greatly improving the human experience.

Related: A New Wave of HR Technology Is Disrupting the Market

Consider the case of Sarah Wilson, director of talent acquisition and principal staff officer at the Toronto bookstore, Indigo: Wilson has been using AI recruiting software to help personalize the hiring process.

"We started using Ideal.com last year, and we saw results within the first week," Wilson told me. "I think some people dismiss AI because they think it will hurt their candidate experience. We saw it as an opportunity to further improve ours."

The HRdirector said she didn't want hiring scenarios for her company that resembledthose of most large retailers, where candidates hear no response. Instead, AI technology helped her team cut out many time-consuming administrative tasks. This decreased the response time for getting back to applicants and helped her team spend more time with candidates they wanted to meet in person.

While Wilson was able to effectively use HRtech to improve the candidate experience, in general a balance between tech and human interaction can be hard to achieve. Here are four ways companies can use technology to improve the human experience:

Human connection is the end goal for business leaders, and HR tech is providing them the time to grow meaningful relationships.

"Both HR and recruiting professionals get caught up in the monotonous tasks associated with their jobs," Mahe Bayireddi, CEO of Phenom People, a talent-relationship marketing platform in Horsham, Pa., explained via email. "Where many people view HR tech as a human replacement, I view it as a bridge to a very apparent gap between HR and recruiting technology and the human element the industry has lost sight of in the past."

Bayireddi said he believes HR pros get overwhelmed with mundane tasks, making it impossible for recruiters to be more personal in their communications. By using automated technology, they're able to focus on building relationships and bringing on the best talent for their teams.

Tip: Help employees be more productive and motivated in their relationships by first understanding what tasks are holding them back. Before signing up for automation software, ask team members what tasks are preventing them from honing-in on the human element of recruiting and HR. Then, research which software can take care of these tasks and free up their time to target the best job candidates.

Related: Why Tech Is HR's Friend, Not Its Enemy

There's no doubt that things move fast in a startup. So, leaders often forget to stop and ask employees for feedback.

Steffen Maier, co-founder of Impraise, a performance-management software company in New York City, said he believes that letting feedback slip out of view can be detrimental to an entire organization.

"The emergence of feedback apps helped to change this by encouraging employees to ask for feedback when they need it, instead of waiting for an annual review," Maier said via email. "Creating an environment in which it's okay to ask for feedback, whether from your manager, reports or colleagues, means that information flows more freely throughout the organization."

Enhancing feedback, especially by offering the option of anonymity, gives managers the information they need to have a more meaningful dialogue with their employees.

Tip: Use a feedback or communication platform to perform a company-wide anonymous survey on employee or organizational matters. From pay and benefits to after-work activities, Maier has improved employees' performance and work experience by using their feedback.

The immersion of video in HR tech is fast evolving how leaders do business worldwide. Gayle Wiley, chief people officer at Lifesize, a video, audio and web-conferencing company based in Austin, puts her company to the test by using video conferencing for her recruiting needs.

"Externally, I use video-conferencing for interviewing candidates who are not located nearby," Wiley explained. "Internally, it is my main communications vehicle for conducting productive meetings with our entire global workforce -- for performance reviews, town hall meetings, onboarding of new employees, training and development and more."

With today's increasingly dispersed workforce, one-click face-to-face interactions are crucial in building the human experience. Co-workers who were once able to connect only over the phone or via email are now able to see one another and interact as though they were in the same room.

Tip: If possible, try the following exercise: Spend a few days communicating with people in your office via phone, email and on messaging platforms. Then, after a day or two of limited facial contact, connect with people via video.

Take notice of the deeper connection with co-workers that's restored through your return to face-to-face discussion. Now, imagine the connections being missed due to the absence of these personalized interactions.

With evolving tools, employers are able to take what were once limited standard procedures and create improved, more expansive experiences for their teams. Such experiences are especially relevant for employee perks and benefits.

Tip: With tools like Maestro Health, an employee health and benefits platform, employers are able to offer complete solutions in a personalized and simpler format. The platform allows users to be shown and to choose from a variety of health benefits to find the ones that are right for them.

Related: This Tech Start-up is Helping Companies Cut HR Expenses

Whether in the health and benefits arena or as part of the overarching employee experience, employees want perks that meet their individualized needs -- not everyone else's. With HR tech, they now have the tools to do this through improved, personalized human experiences.

Waldorf, Md.-basedHeather R. Huhmanis a career expert, experienced hiring manager and president ofCome Recommended, a content-marketing and digital-PR consultancy for job-search and human-resources technologies. She is the...

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Defense ties have long underpinned Indian-Israeli relations, but a string of deals signed this week reflected wider cooperation that could benefit Indian companies seeking advanced technologies and could pave the way for Israeli firms to access millions of consumers.

On Wednesday, the Indian Ministry of External Affairs said India signed several agreements with Israel on science, agriculture and technology, as part of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's historic visit to the country, 25 years after both nations established diplomatic relations.

The agreements included the decision to create a bilateral technology innovation fund worth $40 million for research in industrial development, and to establish a strategic partnership in water and agriculture to focus on water conservation, waste-water treatment and its reuse for agriculture and desalination, among other deals.

Richard Rossow, senior adviser and Wadhwani Chair in U.S.-India Policy Studies at CSIS, said that while Israel has historically been a supplier of defense equipment to India, the two countries have natural synergies in other areas.

"Israel's becoming a more important defense partner for India, a source of great technology, not just in the defense space, but in biotechnology (and) agriculture," he told CNBC's "Street Signs" on Thursday. "A lot of the things were reflected in that joint statement."

Rossow said that closer ties could lead to more investments from both countries.

"India's good at large-scale things, like call centers and software development, but Israel's doing package software. India's doing back-office biotech research, but Israel actually has products that are out there in the global markets more than India does," he said.

"So it could be Israeli companies looking for a larger production base, in which case India's ready to go."

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In Brief Scientists have found a way to introduce a quantum principle into wireless charging systems. This innovation could expedite charging time and functionality while doing away with the previous limitations of wireless charging tech. A Better Range

While wireless chargingis an improvement over amess of entangled wires, the technology does not solve the issue of mobility your phone still needs to remain in one place to charge. This could change with the development of a new type ofcharging.

Current wireless charging devices operate using an electromagnetic field. For the power transfer between the charger and the device to remain optimal, the distance between the two must remain fixed. However, ateam out of Stanford has created a charger that cantransfer power to moving devices up to a meter away. Their research has been published in Nature.

The system uses a quantum mechanical principle called parity-time symmetry. Essentially, this means their charger can automatically adjust its power flow depending on the situation. The researchers demonstrated their device using an LED bulb. When the bulb moved further away, the distance was mitigated by the charger. This allowed the bulb to retain its brightness despite the motion.

Though this study only demonstrates the technology at a minor level, if scalable, it could essentially enable us to charge devices at the optimum rate despite a varying distance. This has exciting applications in a number of fields beyond just allowing you to comfortably use your phone while charging it.

Theoretically, it could revolutionize our ability towirelessly charge electric vehiclesas charging devices could be built into roads to charge the EVsas they drive past.The study also cites the potential to charge medical implants more efficiently. These devices are all implantedat slightly different depths, which can make charging them using existing technology complicated. This new technology would give patients the ability to move around while charging, as well.

While the teams technology is still in its nascent stages and has only charged a single moving LED so far, the concept has the potential to radically change how we power our lives in the future. Now, its just a matter of scaling it up.

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This week's long-range missile test by North Korea marks a distinct, if unsteady, advance in its quest to develop the capability to hit the U.S. mainland, according to two experts.

The distance this missile traveled confirms that North Korea is "no longer just a regional problem. This is a U.S. problem," ABC News aviation consultant Steve Ganyard, a retired Marine Corps colonel, said.

"This is the first time, if the analysis is correct, that we're seeing a North Korean weapon that can hit the United States. Not the mainland, but Alaska is very much part of the United States, and this is a very worrying development," he said on "Good Morning America" today.

Ganyard previously said, "The North Koreans launched this missile almost straight up ... because they didn't want to overfly Japan or Russia."

"The missile itself reached an apex of almost 1,700 miles, which means, had it been on a max-range trajectory, it could have reached Anchorage and wouldn't have been far from reaching Seattle," he said Tuesday on ABC News' "World News Tonight."

Scott Snyder, a senior fellow for Korea studies at the Council on Foreign Relations, said that while the latest test clarified North Korea's ability to fire missiles longer distances, a number of key questions remain.

"There's still a debate whether or not North Korea has been able to make a nuclear weapon small enough to put on the head of the weapon to deliver it, and there's still a debate whether or not North Korea ... has developed re-entry technology," he said.

Such technology would allow a missile to leave Earth's atmosphere and return without burning up, Snyder said.

"The North Koreans are claiming that they have achieved some of those technologies, but it has not yet been definitively proven, and so as a result, there's a little bit of confusion and ambiguity," Snyder said.

"We know they're working on it, so it's really a matter of time before they develop those technologies," he said. "It's not good news."

On the other side, the United States has been working to perfect its system designed to counter North Korea's long-range missile threat.

But that system still needs work, according to Ganyard.

"The U.S. has been developing a ground-based interceptor system that's designed to knock down incoming North Korean missiles, but it's very complex science," he said on "World News Tonight."

"It's very much like hitting a bullet with a bullet, and although the most recent test was successful, the system itself is still only barely over 50 percent reliable," Ganyard said.

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These measures of volatility represent how much traders are paying to hedge against downside moves for the respective indexes. As expectations for volatility rise, it gets more expensive to buy insurance against a potential fall. The Nasdaq 100 and S&P 500 volatility measures differ by 7.5 as of July 3.

The strategist shared his key reasons why Nasdaq volatility levels are rising versus S&P 500 and why it may foreshadow a tech sell-off in an email.

He noted that investors are rotating to value stocks and away from growth stocks. "As we start Q3, growth continues to lose leadership," he also said in his report.

During the first half of this year, 41 stocks in the Nasdaq 100 rose 30 percent or more. Further, he said in the email, there was a connection between bond prices and the rise in the Nasdaq 100, and now they are going down together. His conclusion: "Valuations are insane" in the Nasdaq 100.

McDonald warned his clients that technology may under perform in the coming months and recommended investors trade ahead of the potential decline.

"Getting out in front of the rotation is more important than valuation as capital flows out of highly concentrated trades it has to go somewhere in a bull market. It's a growth into value tsunami," he wrote.

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The technology sector has always been a haven for high-growth companies, leading the way forward with innovative ideas that, in some cases, change the world. If you want to invest in a variety of tech stocks through a single investment, exchange-traded funds that specialize in technology can be a great way to go. The following five ETFs are among the most popular for technology investors, and they can help you spice up your portfolio with higher-growth prospects.

Technology ETF

Assets Under Management

Expense Ratio

5-Year Average Annual Return

Technology Select Sector SPDR (NYSEMKT:XLK)

$16.2 billion

0.14%

17.3%

Vanguard Information Technology (NYSEMKT:VGT)

$13.1 billion

0.10%

17%

First Trust Dow Jones Internet (NYSEMKT:FDN)

$4.4 billion

0.54%

18.9%

iShares U.S. Technology (NYSEMKT:IYW)

$3.4 billion

0.44%

17%

First Trust Nasdaq-100 Technology Sector (NYSEMKT: QTEC)

$2 billion

0.60%

23.1%

Data sources: Fund providers.

Different technology stocks have differing scope across the sector. Some funds include every bit of the industry, including hardware, software, telecommunications, technology manufacturing equipment, and information technology services. The tech ETFs with the broadest scope include some stocks that you wouldn't necessarily first think of as being tech stocks, but they often share the same growth characteristics as traditional tech names.

Three of the ETFs on the list have a big-picture approach to tech. The Technology Select SPDR is the largest, and it has the vast majority of its money spread across software, internet, hardware, services, and semiconductors. Telecom makes up a small but still significant portion of the ETF's assets, and overall, you'll see nearly 75 stocks that give good coverage of the sector as a whole.

The Vanguard Technology ETF has slightly lower costs, and its approach doesn't entirely mirror that of the SPDR Tech ETF. Internet companies are the industry with the greatest weight in the Vanguard ETF, followed by hardware, systems software, and semiconductors. The holdings are more extensive, with 365 stocks in its portfolio as of its most recent report.

The iShares Technology ETF has a higher expense ratio than the Vanguard and SPDR ETFs, but its holdings look eerily similar. The fund's software and services industry, which includes both traditional and internet-related offerings, make up more than half of the assets of the fund. Hardware is another quarter, with semiconductors representing all but a tiny fraction of remaining assets. One notable difference is that telecom is almost unrepresented in the iShares ETF's portfolio.

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One issue with all three of the ETFs discussed above is that their holdings are weighted by market capitalization. That leads to the top stocks in the ETFs having huge weightings compared to the remainder of the stocks in the portfolio, so fund performance relies heavily on those key players.

The First Trust Nasdaq 100 Technology ETF uses a different approach. It looks at the tech stocks in the Nasdaq 100 index and then invests on an equal-weight basis, rebalancing quarterly. Therefore, all 34 holdings have weights of about 3%. That works out well when the top stocks in the industry are doing poorly, but it can lead to lagging performance when tech giants do well. You can see from relative returns that those smaller stocks have done a good job over the past five years, and that has bolstered the First Trust ETF's performance.

Another First Trust fund focuses only on internet stocks, defined as getting half of annual revenue from the internet. First Trust Dow Jones Internet has 42 holdings, and although it takes market capitalization into account in weighting those stocks, it also looks at average share volume and accounts for float-adjusted factors. That's especially important with internet stocks, many of which release only a small portion of their outstanding shares in initial public offerings.

Internet related stocks include a vast array of companies, ranging from internet retailers and online brokerage companies to cloud-computing specialists and social media sites. The growth of those subindustries has led to outperformance for the ETF, and investors hope that favorable trend will continue.

These top technology ETFs offer investors several options to get their tech exposure. You should be able to find a fund that will match up well with where you think the future of the technology sector will be.

Dan Caplinger has no position in any stocks mentioned. The Motley Fool has no position in any of the stocks mentioned. The Motley Fool has a disclosure policy.

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By Kathleen J. Sullivan

As the Stanford students enrolled in Ending Poverty with Technology considered which problems to tackle in the vast landscape of poverty, they chose issues close to their hearts, from hunger in communities near campus to the distribution of counterfeit seeds to small farmers in Africa.

Helen Park, right, and Timothy Tatenda Mazai chat with Mayuka Sarukkai about their project to help low-income families trade childcare services. (Image credit: L.A. Cicero)

One group of students Timothy Tatenda Mazai, 18, Helen Park, 17, and Mayuka Sarukkai, 19 came together over a common passion for improving the lives of children by improving the accessibility and affordability of childcare.

In the land of opportunity it only makes sense that every human being has access to the same resources and pathways to success an ideal we are far from achieving, said Sarukkai, who is majoring in symbolic systems.

Research literature points to the importance of the first five years in shaping the trajectory of entire lives and we felt really passionate about focusing our efforts around a childs first few years. Childcare also seemed like a real cool opportunity to use technology to augment existing social patterns, rather than replacing them a kind of inversion of some of the more detrimental effects of technology that prioritizes uplifting invaluable human resources rather than transplanting them.

As their capstone project, the team proposed a web platform and mobile app called CareSwap, which was designed to help low-income families trade childcare services within their trusted networks of friends, neighbors and family.

The Ending Poverty course was one of more than 160 Cardinal Courses offered this year. Cardinal Courses, which integrate rigorous coursework with real-world service experience, are a singular feature of a Stanford undergraduate education.

While the course has ended for the academic year, the CareSwap team plans to continue developing the web platform and mobile app.

Our idea evolved so much in the last few months after our interviews and conversations with parents and childcare experts, the students said. We are excited to develop it further next year. This project has become far more than a class assignment for each of us.

Tackling real-world problems

In offering Ending Poverty with Technology David Grusky, a professor of sociology and director of the Stanford Center on Poverty and Inequality, knew he would be presenting undergraduate students with a daunting task.

In this course, students are not just asked to master a rapidly developing basic science on poverty, but also to understand the complicated programs and interventions that have been developed in the United States and elsewhere to reduce poverty, said Grusky, who is also a senior fellow at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research.

But were asking more of them than even that. Were then asking them to figure out, based on what they have learned, how to intervene successfully and actually reduce poverty. To jump into a complicated field, to master it, and then to creatively develop new interventions thats a big ask.

To inspire students, Grusky invited key leaders in the nonprofit and technology industries in Silicon Valley to discuss the ways entrepreneurs are tackling poverty with technology.

Grusky said he and the students, whom he described as brave, bold and persistent in their quest to put technology to use reducing poverty and inequality, shared a single mission during the two-quarter course.

Its not about a professor teaching and the students learning, he said. Were all just part of the same team trying to build products that work to reduce poverty.

Some of the students proposed apps, including one that would allow students to donate the unused meals on their meal plans to low-income families, and another that would encourage wealthy millennials to ramp up their charitable giving.

Other students proposed web platforms, including one that would help low-income individuals find pro bono lawyers. One student proposed combining several technologies smartphones, artificial intelligence and machine learning to identify and drive out counterfeit agricultural seeds in Kenya.

Grusky said some of the proposed projects may be adopted for further development by the

Stanford Poverty & Technology Lab, a fledgling initiative dedicated to developing technology-based solutions to rising inequality in the United States.

The lab is developing an app, under the leadership of Bill Behrman, director of the Stanford Data Lab, for mapping poverty in California. The app could help government agencies and nonprofit organizations better target services by delivering estimates of poverty, unemployment, income and other indicators for very small geographic areas of the state.

During the class, Dorian Pickens, 18, contributed to the development of the mapping app by interviewing possible users about the types of data and visualization that would be most helpful in their work.

Hopefully, the work I contributed can be used to continue developing the project, said Pickens, who is majoring in communication. It should be quite exciting to see what the future holds.

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Williams has used its Formula One technology to come up with a hi-tech carrier for critically ill new-born babies needing emergency transportation.

The dubbed "Babypod 20" is being built by Williams Advanced Engineering -- a sister business of the F1 team and part of the Williams Group -- to provide a safe environment for new-born infants that require transporting to hospital either by car, ambulance or helicopter. The firm has been working on the new design alongside Advanced Healthcare Technology (AHT), a company which has produced transport systems for babies for several years.

Constructed using materials and techniques used to build Williams' F1 cars, the sleek carbon fibre transport device will be able to withstand a 20 G-force crash, while offering a more cost-effective and lightweight option -- weighing just 9.1kg (20lb) -- as oppose to heavier, cumbersome incubator alternatives used in the past.

Williams Advanced Engineering managing director, Craig Wilson, said: "The parallels between a Formula One car and transport device for babies may not be immediately apparent, but both demand a lightweight and strong structure that keeps the occupant safe in the event of an accident, and can monitor vital signs whilst remaining easily transportable and accessible.

"We have taken the existing Babypod product and worked with AHT to create a device that is not only more compact and user-friendly but, crucially, can be scaled up in its production so that more hospitals can benefit from this Formula One-inspired technology."

Mark Lait, the design director of Advanced Healthcare Technology, added: "As a UK company we are particularly pleased to have the opportunity to work with the designers and engineers at Williams, to develop this 'next generation' of BabyPods, and to harness their knowledge and skills to make this new model available.

"This design, with reduced weight and increased strength, has also delivered improved features of protection against vibration and noise and of course the dangers related to impact, which inevitably sometimes occur with medical vehicles traveling at speed."

The manufacturing process will take place at Williams' Grove-based headquarters alongside its F1 operations. The pod, which costs 5,000 per unit, will be used by the Children's Acute Transport Service (CATS) of Great Ormond Street Hospital in London initially, though plans are in place to market it much more widely.

CATS operational manager, Eithne Polke, says greater flexibility and manoeuvrability in the new design will make a significant difference to her team's transportation process.

"The new Babypod has an adapted design that allows for greater flexibility and manoeuvrability when moving critically ill infants from one mode of transport to another," Polke explained. Not only is the environment controlled at a constant temperature, but the visual opportunity afforded by the redesigned cover allows the baby to be constantly monitored and for better accessibility.

"Overall, we're delighted with the updated Babypod design and safety features and believe it has made a big difference to our transportation processes."

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An Israeli company that affordably extracts water from thin air signed a memorandum of understanding on Tuesday to bring its proprietary technology to India.

Rishon Lezion-based Water-Gen and India's SUN Group announced their collaboration in Tel Aviv that afternoon, agreeing that the latter will be responsible for distributing the former's technology in the Indian market. According to the memorandum of understanding, the partners are focusing on providing a potable water solution to the Indian military, official institutions and government agencies in particular.

The partnership announcement coincided with the arrival to Israel of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his accompanying business delegation among whose members is the vice chairman of the SUN Group, Shiv Vikram Khemka. The signing took place at a special event held by the Israel Association of Industrialists.

"We are a business company, but our vision is a humanitarian one, said Water-Gen executive chairman Maxim Pasik. In the 21st century, there is no reason for any society to suffer shortage of water.

The agreement with the SUN Group is just one of many recent such collaborations cemented by Water-Gen around the world. Most recently, the suburb of Miami Gardens declared that it would be launching a pilot program using the company's system.

Water-Gens technology first made waves at the AIPAC Policy conference in Washington at the end of March, when Prof. Alan Dershowitz presented the companys device on stage and pulled water out of thin air. Trapping humid air on-demand, the device cleans and dries the air and extracts the resultant clean water.

The company claims to offer a far more affordable option than other systems that have tried to extract water from air, as the heat exchanger in the device is made from plastic rather than from aluminum. Generating 1 gallon (3.79 liters) of water requires only 1 kW of energy, according to the firm.

Water-Gens system is available in three sizes: a small home appliance, a medium-scale model and a large-scale industrial water generator with a capacity of up to 6,000 liters of water per day.

The company stressed the importance of bringing its solution to India, which is the second most populous country in the world and suffers from a chronic water shortage. In rural areas, where 74% of the Indian population resides, only about 21% of the people have access to sanitation and only 84% benefit from a regular water supply, the firm said. In urban areas, where the situation is better, just 54% of residents have access to sanitation and 96% enjoy a regular water supply, the company said.

Across the entire world, there a more than a million children under the age of five who will die every year from diseases related to water shortages or water contamination, added Pasik, Water-Gens executive chairman.

In this sense, the technology Water-Gen has developed is a humanitarian one and we see it as a moral obligation to distribute it as much as possible where it is needed, Pasik said. It is no secret that there is a need for technology like Water-Gen's in India and this is why we are so happy about the memorandum of understanding signed yesterday between us and an Indian company sharing this vision.

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