Sarvajal Project for Safe

Drinking Water

Alankrita Saikia
Ambar Gangurde
 Sarvajal is a Sanskrit word which means “Water for All”
 Piramal Sarvajal was founded by Piramal Foundation of

Anand Shah in 2008.

 Discovery of the Problem :
Introduction
 In India, there is an over-dependence on the groundwater
because India has no perennial river flowing. Even today,
people in India drinks untreated water, leading to deaths.

 A water scarce region of Rajasthan, called Bagar was

facing a problem of safe drinking water. The problem of not
having proper drinking water was identified by “Anand
Shah”, who aimed for low-cost scalable solution of serving
safe water for all.
But the initiative posed different challenges to effectively and
efficiently manage the project like educating consumers
about water-health linked diseases.

So, Sarvajal innovated a solution that could be customized

for the water contamination profile of any location with
pioneering remote monitoring technology. It also invested
in community awareness activities.
Piramal Sarvajal, has a mission driven social enterprise
which designs and deploys innovative solutions for creating
affordable access to safe drinking water in underserved
areas. Sarvajal is at the forefront of developing
technologies and business practices in the safe drinking
water sector that are designed to make a purely market-
based model sustainable in both rural deployment
conditions.
 History

 Piramal Water Private Limited, which operates under the

brand “Sarvajal”, finds mass-market solutions to India’s
drinking water crisis.
 The foundation stone was piloted in the grassroot level at

Rajasthan for Bagar Drinking Water Initiative.

 The pure drinking water initiative was started in Bagar,

where the fluoride contamination in drinking water lead to

severe health issues.
 The success paved the path for the business model with
the mission of providing safe drinking water to everyone at
affordable prices.
 Bagar Drinking Water Initiative was converted into Piramal

Water Private Limited.

 MISSION

Sarvajal or “Water for all” aims to eradicate the problem of

unhygenic water drinking water supply and allocation of
safe drinking water to the rural areas which are deprived.
Figure 1:
Case Problem Innovation Aspire Goal Remarks
Addressed

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 Problem Statement
The problem of availability of freshwater is a
significant challenge in India, especially in rural
areas.
Piramal Sarvajal understood the problem of unhygienic
drinking water and got committed to creating
technology to create easy access to safe drinking
water in the rural areas.
 Ideate: Water ATMs

Water ATMs, or Automated Water Drinking Units was

developed to provide purified water 24*7.
The villagers were issued cards for collecting water and
these cards have a prepaid balance, which can be
recharged periodically as per consumption pattern.
The techonoloy of IoT has been installed at the purification
level to ensure the quality of water.
The system of how
it will work.
 Experiment: Prototype

The water ATM devices invented were solar-powered, cloud

connected and operated automatically.
The machine was designed to dispense water at the swipe of
a card.
The ATMs tracks every transaction that takes place.
The design of the Water ATM.
 People collecting safe drinking water from Water
ATM.
 The Current Situation

 Around more than 2.45 billion liters of purified water has

been dispensed till date.
 Approximately 7,65,000 people are benefitted on a daily

basis.
 25 districts in 6 states have been touched by the project of

Sarvajal.
Community Capital Framework

1. State Government has funded in this project of providing

safe drinking water to the rural areas.
2. Sarvajal partnered with Ashok Leyland under the Jal
Jeevan initiative of the Hinduja foundation to set up a
purification plant and ATM to provide 24/7 access to safe
drinking water to the community.
3. The Gram Panchayat in the village, has their contribution
of accepting the new way of safe and hygenic drinking
water rather than drinking unclean water.
 Ripple Effect Method

 To address the problem of effective safe drinking

water, the first water ATM was incorporated in
Rajasthan.
 Currently, Piramal Sarvajal operates in over 20 states
of India. The network has reached out to more than
5,90,582 consumers.
 It has provided nearly 9 billion litres of safe drinking
water to date.
This shows a positive impact of the ripple effect
 Intervention Underlying Example Key
Figure 2: Point Aim Intervention
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is situated in safe drinking water- of diseases in
water scarce water ATMs treatment INDIA are
region of in areas where capability waterborne.
Rajasthan. access to safe through the 29.4% of the
The founder drinking water use of filters, urban
Anand Shah is a luxury solar population
gave genesis commitment disinfection,
to a program to provide or flocculants,
aimed at access to safe to make
achieving a drinking water drinking water
low-cost across INDIA. safe.
scalable Promote low-
solution cost solutions,
serving ‘safe such as
water for all’ chlorine
tablets or
plastic bottles
that can be
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Figure 3:

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Problem Definition and Goal to be
pursued and the principle activity
Benefit or Burden to be distributed
Target Population
Rules
Tools
#The problem of not having proper and
safe drinking water. 
#The goal is to provide safe and clean
drinking water.
#The principal activity is to help people
to access safe drinking water.
#When clean drinking water is
provided, the chance of water-borne
diseases is reduced.
The target population is the people in
rural areas, who are deprived of safe
and clean drinking water.
Tools: Water ATMs have been
constructed which are solar-powered
and cloud-connected that provide water
by a card swipe (RFID Card).
Implementated Structure It started in a small district of Rajasthan and then
started to help other states.
Social Construction and The construction of water ATMs have been a
Narrative relief to the villagers.
The narrative is to change the situation from
unhygienic water supply to safe drinking water.
Explicit and Implicit People are getting safe water to drink and thus,
Justification decreasing water-borne diseases.
Having awareness programs about the health
issues happen due to unhygienic drinking water.
Underlying Assumption The assumption was based on the ideology of
providing safe drinking water to rural areas at a
marginal cost.
Incremental Changes The societal change from the Sarvajal Project
was that consumers were increasing daily for
safe drinking water.
 BIBLIOGRAPHY
 www.sarvajal.com
 https://analyticsindiamag.com/case-study-how
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 http://breakthrough.unglobalcompact.org/brief
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Thank You.