Water for All

WATSAN is providing electricity free, maintenance free, portable potable standalone water purifiers to the last mile. We have pioneered in developing region specific purifiers like arsenic and fluoride removal. We have also developed toilets from solid waste dumped by wind mill blade manufacturers, empowering women workers from the local Self Help Groups.

For water purifiers we use nano-pored clay candles which do not allow the pathogens, turbidity, colour, odour through them, allowing only pure water to pass through.

As for toilets, we have made them ready to fit lego-type made from waste glass fibres empowering women teams to build it quick and erect the toilets themselves.

Makers of Natural Water Purifiers

The water purifiers we have made to reach more than 3,00,000 rural households across India and innumerable child care centres and schools have impacted the women and children by:

1. Improving their health

2. Improving their attendance in schools, women in their work

3. Has made women source any water, filter and feel safe than walking miles to fetch potable water

4. Has reduced need of electricity or maintenance.

5. Carbon credit due to zero electricity and zero wastage of water

6. No replacement costs, no need to buy water, thereby empowering them more economically sustainable.

We sell only to large NGOs like Water Aid, World Vision who buy in bulk, distribute to the marginal community, BPL families, to rural self employed entrepreneurs, small NGOs who sell it at a smaller margin than the dealers and stockists who don't even reach out to tier 2,3 cities or to remotest villages. Through networking with rural entrepreneurs and big NGOs we were able to reach out to 3,00,000 households and many schools, primary health centres, thereby making potable water reach these last mile. We were first to develop region specific water purifiers like arsenic removal, fluoride removal systems.

The technology is easy to adapt and scale by rural communities. They can themselves use, become advocates of safe health by using our potable water purifiers, also earn as sellers and change makers.

Nano technology. Nano pored filter medium filters the pathogens and other contamination in water and percolate only pure water below

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The above details prove that we have already impacted more than 2,50,000 families across India, larger companies, and bigger NGOs like World Vision India buys from us regularly for the past three years, to further distribute it to small marginal families, child care centres and primary schools in rural areas.

We educate the masses with basic science, clean usage and health. They tend to listen, adapt. By changing themselves they also change the world around. Teach a woman quality of life, she will change the whole world. In India, almost 80% of the rural public do not have access to clean drinking water, also do not have affordability to buy costly R.O filters. Watsan's filters are affordable, and has reached almost 3,00,000 households across the country. They do not need electricity, saves all water which comes in, does not need costly replacements of membranes etc for long life, rather run for ever, if clean, washed and used. You can visit 

3,00,000 families equalling 15,00,000 people have been impacted by our water purifiers, and we wish to reach 1 million families, i.e., 100,00,000 families in 5 years

To become a name to reckon for rural and semi urban families in the water and sanitation industry. To make it more affordable and reachable to the last woman and child in the last mile.

Governmental red tapism, more capital to establish manufacturing centres across globe.

By collaborating with like minded Governments, people and build network of people who can cross promote, buy and sell these wares.

Watsan is an independent registered LLC in India and is for-profit social enterprise.

Management team 3, workers 24. All full time, Part time marketing external consultants 5, work for us. We have many NGOs partnering with us for sales. Suppliers of parts 10 small companies.

Chandrasekaran J is the founder. he is a chemistry graduate and a topper in Plastics Technology. Having visited most villages across India and read about the water problems, he has already been successful without any loans, Over Draft or Working capital loans from the banks, rather build organic network of people based NGOs and SHGs thereby selling the water purifiers and educating them on safe drinking water. Watsan was the first company to build arsenic and fluoride removal purifiers and have good network with many NGOs in India as well as across the globe. WATSAN as the name indicates is solutions for WATer and SANitation.

Biggest NGO who buys from us regularly for past 3 years is World Vision. We also have Water Aid as our associate.

We have tied up with big NGOs and small, SHGs and rural entrepreneurs to whom we sell and they take it to the last mile. This reduces stockists, traders margins and are able to reach to the needy at affordable price. We want to replicate this model at any country

Bootstrap, proliferate, live and let live. By passing the bigger margins to the marginalised and changing their lives, they turn out to be loyal change makers and sellers for us. Watsan entertains rural entrepreneurs, NGOs and SHGs to sell the product and earn a margin, so that they can sustain as well as grow watsan's network.

Affordability to access potable water is a challenge to many in rural areas. Also, the most known brands of purifiers do not reach the needy. Watsan wants to create a network of change makers across the country, who will educate the mass on safe water, drinking and thereby bring in the change in the health of those unreached population. Watsan would train such change makers, who can update the water problems in their region and also get us orders for purifiers. They become the messiah to change the water map of India.

We are looking to collaborate with anybody who has experience in WASH sector. Those who have desire to bring change in the water space within their region, to themselves and the people around. A rural entrepreneur can start small, sell lesser volumes, than slowly build up network and volumes. As investors, Corporates can invest as CSR funds, impact a specific geography thereby getting good media coverage, and self satisfaction of able to build healthier environment around them. As for other investors, these are social impact investment so have to wait to see the growth happening, not rush as VCs do :) As for evaluation and monitoring a social impact, companies can fund and deploy our purifiers in places where they need to see the long term effect of having healthy water in all fronts, be it health, attendance to work, school and cutting costs for hospitals and doctors.

Scientists who can work on water related challenges, reducing contamination of pharma waste, textile dye in water, other eco-friendly ways to remediate STP water etc can be a good partner. We can develop pilots, scale up with our industrial experience.

Big NGOs who have good network, for whom we can white label and sell.

Self Help groups and Women Organizations who think their reach is far and wide, enable local women to buy and sell our products for livelihood

Refugees live in uncertain environment, so I doubt strongly if water is healthier there. They can distribute the water purifiers among themselves, thereby reducing risk of health due to contaminated water. Those settled can become our change makers, either as an entrepreneur or as a representative to raise their voice and concern for basic rights to have access to clean drinking water. Watsan would surely love to collaborate with such marginalised community, as water has no religion, caste, creed or kind. It is an universal purifier of soul and minds as well!

We run Watsan with 99% women. We wanted to make the product women centric, as they are the decision makers in a family for spending money, or to take of health issues of their kith and kin. A woman can surely be a changemaker not only to the family but to the society she lives within. We will start piloting the products with the prize money to different geography. We will also use the prize money to make 'water on wheels' which carries source water to the doorstep of the woman, finally delivered as purified water. If this water on wheels had not been there, she has to walk miles to fetch water, losing time, value for time, and also becomes part of a daily stressful routine, which can be changed if the water is delivered to her door step. With the prize money we will make as many as water ATMs possible, load it on vehicles, which will drive down the water to the woman. 

Our water on wheels concept can detect the contamination of the water in any geographic region, record it, remediate it and also have the data of how much water is dispensed to a house, how much time has been saved by delivering water to the door step of the women and what are the benefits to them in terms of saving time, getting potable water and also get a complete picture of the water map. Our water on wheels machine will have all these features, controlled by cloud mapping and also allow digital payment. The prize money will be used to deliver such machines in places where women walk miles together.