Student enterprise has a lotta bottle for charity

CHARITIES are to receive 10c per unit sold of a new bottled water called Aquaid, the creation of 19-year-old UCD Civil Engineering student Eoin Dunlevy.

Currently on Supervalu shelves in Dunlevy’s native South Donegal, the plan is to distribute the water via students’ union outlets nationwide, and eventually from general retail outlets. Aquaid has made a modest start, but the company is not short of ambition.

Dunlevy said: “I heard an entrepreneur on TV saying his one regret was not starting earlier. I have about 10,000 bottles stored in my father’s shed. He is a wholesaler in Donegal, importing and exporting. I wanted to create a small business, and give some money to a good cause.