(SAN JOSE, Calif. And Bandung, Indonesia) Nov. 16, 2013 –

Nazava Water Filters   won the main prize (tech award) in the Nokia Health Category of the Tech Awards 2013 and received a cash prize of 75,000 USD at the annual Tech Award Gala, on Thursday 14 November, San Jose, California.

Nazava is one of 10 global innovators recognized each year for applying technology to benefit humanity and spark global change. The Tech Awards is a signature program of The Tech Museum of Innovation, and presented by Applied Materials Inc,

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Receiving the Tech Awards is an incredible honor

“Receiving the Tech Awards is an incredible honor, recognizing individuals and organizations whose ideas and execution of those ideas are changing the world,” said Lieselotte Heederik, co-founder and director of Nazava. “We are extremely proud to be recognized for our contributions, and we will use the prize money to radically scale up our efforts to provide safe drinking water to everybody everywhere.”

“In Indonesia over 150 million people cannot afford to buy safe drinking water.

Nazava offers a solution to this: Nazava Water Filters are easy to use household water filters that provide a continued flow of safe drinking water, without needing wood, LPG or electricity, hence improving health and saving time and money,” explains Lieselotte. “Nazava strives to provide 1 million people with improved health, average annual savings of $70 per household, 39,000 TON CO2 reductions, employment for 300 people in 2016. Currently Nazava has Nazava has sold over 17,000 water filters that improve the health of over 80,000 people.”

For more information about Nazava: www.nazava.com.

The Tech Awards: Technology Benefiting Humanity is one of the premier annual humanitarian awards programs in the world, recognizing technical solutions that benefit humanity and address the most critical issues facing our planet and its people. The awards program honors 10 innovators annually alongside the recipient of the Global Humanitarian Award. Laureates are selected by a prestigious panel of international judges organized by the Center for Science, Technology, and Society at Santa Clara University, and made up of Santa Clara University faculty as well as leaders from educational and research institutions, industry and the public sector.

This year, the laureates represent the truly global vision of the program, spanning countries such as India, Kenya and Mexico. Their work impacts people in many more countries worldwide.

The Tech Awards collaborates with humanitarian, educational, and business partners through global outreach efforts, giving people around the world the opportunity to benefit from the successful technologies recognized through The Tech Awards. The selected laureates’ projects address multiple humanitarian efforts including reducing water scarcity, creating free educational tools, and curing jaundice in newborns.

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About The Tech Museum

The Tech Museum is a hands-on science and technology institution designed to engage people of all ages and backgrounds in experiences that educate, inform, provoke thought, and inspire action. Ensconced in the heart of Silicon Valley, the museum captures the spirit of the region through innovative content and programs such as The Tech Challenge, our annual team design competition for youth, and the internationally renowned The Tech Awards, which recognizes technology to benefit humanity. Daily, The Tech Museum celebrates the present and encourages the development of pioneering ideas for a more promising future. For more information about The Tech Museum, visit The Tech Museum