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However, I soon realized that not everyone is fortunate enough to enjoy the clean water we did.

Outside my grandparents' house in the busy streets of India, I saw people standing in long lines under the hot sun filling buckets with water from a tap.

I even saw children, who looked the same age as me, filling up these clear plastic bottles with dirty water from streams on the roadside.

Watching these kids forced to drink water that I felt was too dirty to touch changed my perspective on the world.

This unacceptable social injustice compelled me to want to find a solution to our world's clean water problem.

I wanted to know why these kids lacked water, a substance that is essential for life.

And I learned that we are facing a global water crisis.

Now, this may seem surprising, as 75 percent of our planet is covered in water, but only 2.5 percent of that is freshwater, and less than one percent of Earth's freshwater supply is available for human consumption.

With rising populations, industrial development and economic growth, our demand for clean water is increasing, yet our freshwater resources are rapidly depleting.

According to the World Health Organization, 660 million people in our world lack access to a clean water source.

Lack of access to clean water is a leading cause of death in children under the age of five in developing countries, and UNICEF estimates that 3,000 children die every day from a water-related disease.

So after returning home one summer in eighth grade, I decided that I wanted to combine my passion for solving the global water crisis with my interest in science.

I also read a lot of journal papers on water-related research, and I learned that currently in developing countries, something called solar disinfection, or SODIS, is used to purify water.

In SODIS, clear plastic bottles are filled with contaminated water and then exposed to sunlight for six to eight hours.

The UV radiation from the sun destroys the DNA of these harmful pathogens and decontaminates the water.

These reactive oxygen species are able to remove bacteria and organics and a whole lot of contaminants from drinking water.

So my goal was to overcome the disadvantages of these current treatment methods and create a safe, sustainable, cost-effective and eco-friendly method of purifying water.

What started off as an eighth grade science fair project is now my photocatalytic composite for water purification.

For example, you could create a rod that can easily be placed inside water bottles for individual use or you could create a porous filter that can filter water for families.

You can even coat the inside of an existing water tank to purify larger amounts of water for communities over a longer period of time.

I was 14 years old when I started, but I didn't let my age deter me in my interest in pursuing scientific research and wanting to solve the global water crisis.

See, water isn't just the universal solvent.

Water is a universal human right.

And this summer, I founded Catalyst for World Water, a social enterprise aimed at catalyzing solutions to the global water crisis.

Alone, a single drop of water can't do much, but when many drops come together, they can sustain life on our planet.

Just as water drops come together to form oceans, I believe that we all must come together when tackling this global problem.

No water to drink, except coming out of a spigot connected to the toilet.

The water looked and tasted dirty, there was never enough food, never any showers, women menstruating without any hygiene products, no medical attention whatsoever.

Or a bridge with water cannons that fire water onto unsuspecting kayakers below?

For example, there will be improved access to Boulder Creek, so kids can play safely in the water.

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