David Pong

David Pong

Founder & Chief Executive Officer, Wateroam

David Pong is a social entrepreneur who believes in harnessing the power of business to drive social change and solve the world’s toughest problems. Having witnessed villagers across Asia who are still burdened by waterborne diseases in the 21st century, David co-founded Wateroam in 2014 to design & build innovative water filters that provide safe drinking water in the hardest-to-reach places on earth.

Together with his team, Wateroam has built cost-effective water filters that are simple-to-use, swift to deploy and can provide high quality drinking water without electricity.

Today, Wateroam’s filters has been deployed through its partners to 43 countries globally and have provided clean water access to more than 400,000 people in rural & disaster-hit communities such as Turkey, Ukraine and Myanmar. Their innovation has been recognized with multiple international awards including the UpLink-World Economic Forum Global Freshwater Challenge 2023 Top Innovator, the Zayed Sustainability Prize 2022, and the ASEAN Business Award 2019.



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