For many years VIT University, Vellore has been instrumental in creating leaders across industries and this year too, Devlina Das, a CSIR Senior Research Fellow at VIT University, bagged the second prize at the prestigious 2015 RELX Group Environmental Challenge.

The $25,000 prize went to SALINO, a project managed by Devlina, which converts sea water into drinking water using a unique five-step method powered by solar energy. The winners also get a year’s free access to Science Direct, a database that includes 3,67,000 articles on environmental science.

The first prize $50,000 winner is Alternative Indigenous Development Foundation (AIDFI), a Philippines-based social enterprise that provides reliable drinking water to upland rural areas using a unique hydraulic ram pump.

This is the fifth year since the RELX Group, a leading provider of professional information solutions, has given the award, which supports innovative solutions to improve sustainable access to safe water and sanitation.

Devlina says the inspiration behind her invention was the current water purification scenario in the country. “The current scenario is such that the ground and fresh water resources are getting depleted day by day and require an immediate move to replenish the depleted sources. This circumstance inspired me the most to come up with SALINO,” says Devlina. 

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