Anum Imtiaz , Purifying Pakistan One Drop at a time

Anum Imtiaz – Purifying Pakistan One Drop at a time

Meet Anum Imtiaz, co-founder of Nano-Tech, a high-quality innovative water filtration and treatment system that provides affordable, safe drinking water using green technology.
Anum, armed with her MS in Environmental Sciences wanted to use her education to solve to real world problems. She dedicated herself to nanotechnology early on because she felt it could change the world.

Aware that 60% of people in Pakistan do not have access to clean and safe drinking water, Anum aimed to solve the issue. Our dependence on water makes access to clean water a basic human right. Unfortunately, approximately 1.1 billion people worldwide do not have access to safe drinking water. Children are the most susceptible to disease caused by unsafe drinking water, resulting in the death of a child every 8 seconds due contaminated water.
Traditional water purification methods are inefficient, costly, and many times wasteful.
So Anum developed Nano-tech, a two chamber water filtration system that processes tap water into clean drinking water by removing 99.9% of bacteria, without electricity and at a low cost. First particles including dust, odor, color, and taste are removed from water through activated carbons, then bacteria, viruses, and metals are removed as water is processed through a microfiltration chamber, resulting in pure safe drinking water.
The system is currently in testing phase, but that hasn’t stopped Anum and her team from entering competition and winning prizes for their innovative water purifying system.
- Winner of the 2013 Preston Entrepreneur Challenge
- Second place in the 2013 Global Innovation through Science and Technology initiative (GIST ) competition
- Second place in the 2013 Rawalpindi Chamber of Commerce and Industry’s (RCC&I) business plan competition
- First place in the 2012 Gulham Ishaq Khan Institute’s Thermocon – Green Ideas Challenge

If these recognitions weren’t enough, Anum is also a good table tennis player. She won the 2012 IESE Table Tennis Tournament in singles and doubles competition.