Water Micro-Infrastructure

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Sameer Kalwani:

"Sarvajal's ... new decentralization of the filtration process allows us to distribute water for a fraction of the previous cost and get to every nook and cranny of a population.

Micro-everything allows us to reach areas where current solutions lack viability or quality. In pursuing this approach, Sarvajal has not only created new markets, but has also reformed existing ones for clean water access in India.

Our micro-franchise solutions get high-quality, low-cost solutions to those who are marginalized by the lack of better infrastructure support that’s typically in urban slums and rural villages. Bottled water and other private solutions are usually available in these areas, but are often quite costly, keeping a necessary resource out of reach for the poor. Our micro-franchise solution in the town of Churu, in Rajasthan, brought the price of private drinking water down to less than one cent per liter. Now more people can afford clean water who didn't have access to it before. Over the course of the past year that Laxmangarh, Rajasthan has been an active franchise, we've seen the number of customers more than double, so people are actually adopting the solution and getting their friends to use it as well." (http://poptech.org/e2_sameer_kalwani)