Providing Safe Water for 25,000 Villagers in India Photo Gallery

Local operators from the village are trained to build and maintain the filtration and UV disinfection systems, which are designed for scalability and ease of use.

Community Water Systems clean and disinfect readily available village water such as the surface water shown here.

After passing through the system, the brown water shown above is transformed into clean, clear water that is safe to drink.

Village households have signed up to receive 15 liter water containers designed to reduce the risk of contaminating their drinking water with harmful pathogens.

Water is sold through a coupon system that covers the cost of operating the CWS and provides income for local operators and community workers

This elementary school teacher took up collections from local parents to provide clean water to her students in the classroom. When we offered to donate water to the school, she proudly declared: “We don’t want handouts. We can afford this water ourselves”.

Children often fetch the water in groups.