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Reed wins the Independent’s Social Entrepreneur of the Year award |
 Reed Paget, the ambassador who founded Belu - a bottled water company that donates all profits to global clean water projects - has won the Independent newspaper’s Social Entrepreneur of the Year award.
The former documentary film maker, who launched the company in 2002, was honoured in a ceremony at the British Museum this week.
He was competing against fellow ambassador Tim Smit of the Eden Project, but Belu was finally chosen for its "exemplary efforts" to make the bottled drinks industry more environmentally sustainable.
The company pledges that for each bottle of mineral water sold provide clean water for one person, for one month. Among its clean water projects, the company has installed hand pumps and wells for 20,000 people in India and Mali.
The Independent's competition was run in partnership with the Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship, which operates a similar contest in 40 countries around the world.
The ambassador has now been invited to Zurich to get together with the community of 120 social entrepreneurship winners. They will meet before the World Economic forum at Davos next week.
Look out for our interview with Reed, coming soon.
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