India - A Clean Solution for Pure Water

A population of 452 was merely a number for Reshma Dai. In December 2011, as the Sarpanch of Advi village in Madhya Pradesh, she knocked on every door to inform her fellow villagers of how the newly installed water purification plant could save their children from fatal health problems. It took her three days, but she made sure  everybody was onboard.

Today, this purification plant in Advi village provides about 500 litres of clean drinking water per day.

This was made possible  in villages of Chhattisgarh, Bihar and Maharashtra as well by Nagpur-based engineer Abhijeet Gan. An alumnus of BITS Pilani, Abhijeet started work on Rite Water Solutions in 2006 after he read an article on chemical contamination of water in Dongargaon near Nagpur. “The article mentioned severe ill effects on the health of the villagers. So, I visited the village with a few friends. We observed that 60 per cent of the children there suffered from dental problems and bone-related disorders due to presence of fluoride in water,” says Abhijeet. The adults were worst affected due to fluoride consumption over a long period. “Within a year we developed a product for fluoride removal and set up our first community water centre there,” he says....