Aadit Krishna

What they built

Aadit Krishna invented HelioPure, a floating solar-powered water purification device that uses photocatalysis, ion exchange, and adsorption to treat untreated surface water without electricity. The device activates titanium dioxide with sunlight to chemically destroy organic contaminants, and integrates specialized resin that reduces PFAS ("forever chemical") concentrations by an average of 84.8% in field testing — approaching the EPA's regulatory limit of 4.0 parts per trillion. Motivated by seeing villagers in Tamil Nadu, India drinking untreated river water during a family visit at age 7, and reinforced by the 2024 Hurricane Helene water crisis in Western North Carolina, Krishna designed HelioPure as a self-sustaining, portable solution for the 2.2 billion people worldwide who lack access to safely managed drinking water.

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