Mobile Phone App Pools Money Spent by Poor For Clean Water

There’s nothing small about Akanksha Hazari’s ambitions. Rising from living aboard a merchant ship to make ends meet with her family, to earning degrees at Princeton and Cambridge universities, Hazari says she wants to accomplish big things. At the top of that list: helping the many millions living in India’s poorest slums get access to clean water and sanitation, education and improved health care.  But Hazari doesn’t just dream big. In 2012, the 30-something Hazari developed a...

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