Plas-Stick: Indian Teens Change the World | By Vivek Ved The Green Lens Youth Innovation Environment · India · Earth Prize 2026 Three Teens, a Handful of Tamarind Seeds, and a Big Idea That's Changing How the World Drinks Water Vivaan, Ariana, and Avyana were 16 and fed up. So they built Plas-Stick — and the world's largest youth environment prize agreed it was brilliant. VV Vivek Ved Environment Correspondent May 23, 2026 · 7 min read Scroll 2.2B Without safe drinking water worldwide 8,000+ Students & teachers reached by Plas-Stick workshops $12.5K Prize per inventor Earth Prize 2026 Asia The Story Somewhere in a rural village in India, a young child cups their hands and drinks water from a shared cont...