Naandi Community Water Services
The project's history
The Naandi Foundation The Naandi Foundation is an Indian NGO founded in 1998 to meet three challenges facing India: child rights, safe drinking water, and sustainable livelihoods. Since 2000, the Foundation has been headed by Manoj Kumar, a passionate advocate who has spent his career improving living conditions for his fellow Indians. The Naandi Foundation develops local projects that benefit rural populations. Each project draws on a broad range of participants who work to improve daily life for India’s people: ...
Discover this projectImpact measures
3 main social objectivesToday the program has three social goals which are used to measure Naandi’s impact. Equality: Safe drinking water for everyone, regardless of class and caste, and access to drinking water in underprivileged areas, with women and children benefiting most. Family life: Naandi estimates that each household will save around 4,500 rupees ($89) a year. Newco projects that nearly ...
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Korukollu Community Connect Program - Eye Check-up for students
on the Wednesday, 10 October, 2012 - 10:16
At Korukollu Village in Krishna district of Andhra Pradesh, our NCWS team organized an eye check up for the school children with the help of Shankar Eye Foundation. Eye check-up was done for a total of 800 students from the Govt. High School Korukollu and KGR Pvt. School Korukollu, by qualified Ophthalmologist of Shankar Eye Foundation.
About 70 students were diagnosed with ocular problems. We express our heartfelt gratitude to Mrs.Chukkapalli Sudha (donor of our safe drinking water plant in Adavinekkalam village) and the key persons of the Korukollu village, who offered to provide financial aid for these students to get the required treatment and KOLs of the village. We also thank Shankar Eye Foundation for their time and cooperation, in making this a fruitful event for the students of Korukollu.




Taru Yatra 2012: A Plantation Drive in Haryana
on the Thursday, 16 August, 2012 - 09:19
Naandi Community Water Services participated in the Plantation Drive - Taru Yatra 2012 in Jhajjar district launched by Jhajjar District Administration. Our team actively participated in the villages of Faisabad and Chhudani. The images are from the village of Chhudani.
We believe this Plantation Drive would create an awareness in the district about environment and spread the message of social commitment.





From the Facebook page of NCWS.
Naandi Community Water Services "Quenching thirst in rural areas"
on the Thursday, 26 April, 2012 - 15:35
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.
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Naandi Community Water Services
IndiaWater- Facts
- In 2010, Naandi Community Water Services was present in over 400 villages, providing safe drinking water to 2.4 million people. Some 30 million liters are distributed each month at only $0.3 per liter.
- Story
- Naandi Community Water Services was launched in 2006 by India’s Naandi Foundation. In 2010, danone.communities began supporting the project with investments and expertise from Danone.


