Naandi Community Water Services "Quenching thirst in rural areas"

On Monday, one of the biggest information website in India has published an article about Naandi Community Water Services.

Why is it important? It is important because Naandi Community Water Services is one of our projects that are the most impactful. We are happy that the NCWS team is such highlighted, congratulations to their work ! Moreover, this article enters deeply into the daily life of the project, that is always much more meaningful that anything.

Read the beginning of this article just below.

"What better elixir than pure water? Thanks to Naandi, a safe drinking water programme, 390 536 households in rural areas across four Indian states are benefited.

Naandi, headquartered in Hyderabad, is a not-for-profit organization which works with governing bodies in rural areas, including Karnataka, to provide clean drinking water to the poor. So what really is their modus operandi? It is essentially a community-run programme where the local governing body or gram panchayat owns a water purifying plant, which is set up and run by Naandi's water division field officers. Funds collected from donors go towards equipping each unit, replete with purifiers. Thereafter, beneficiaries are given a monthly card, which they produce at the unit while collecting their share of water. The cards are duly punched to keep a tab on the quantity of water consumed. The value of each card is equal to the total sum of money paid for the beneficiary's monthly water consumption.

In fact, 575 families benefit from Naandi plants in Hebbagodi, Kamasandra and Thirupalya on the outskirts of Bangalore. Beneficiaries here shell out Rs 4 per day, per family for five members to procure 20 litres of water. What these beneficiaries are consuming is four times filtered water treated through colloidal filters, 10 and five micron filters. The water then undergoes a reverse osmosis process before being run through a UV lamp filter, ready for consumption. Each water treatment plant has a 5,000-litre capacity and villagers collect their share of water according to the time slots prescribed to them - 6am to 10am or 4pm to 10pm. There are 20 such plants in Karnataka alone; at Chikamagalur, Chitradurga, Yadgir, Gulbarga and Haveri districts. [...]"

Full article here : The Times of India.

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