Companies are working to develop a sustainable business model from which Indian villagers can benefit as they are offered the opportunity to participate in sales – on what is described as “water entrepreneurship”.
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Village women walk long distances to collect drinking water. Subhash Sharma for the National -
Promodini Jhamble uses filtered water from a Eureka Forbes sanitation station in Viratnagar near Solapur. Subhash Sharma for The National -
Villagers collect water from a over flowing pipeline & use the unhygenic unfiltered water for washing & drinking. Subhash Sharma for The National -
Women wash clothes using water from a pond. Subhash Sharma for The National -
Women from Hebbagodi in Bangalore carry home water purified in a Naandi Waters station. Subhash Sharma for The National -
Villagers near collect water from an overflowing pipe. Some 96 million people in India do not have access to clean water. Subhash Sharma for The National -
Promodini Jhamble, left, sells purified water to homes and shops nearby. Subhash Sharma for The National -
A woman collects unfiltered water for drinking from a lake in Jharia, India. Subhash Sharma for the National -
Promodini Jhamble runs a reverse osmosis water-cleaning station provided by Eureka Forbes, which can filter up to 1,000 litres of water per hour. Subhash Sharma for The National
In pictures: Delivering clean water to rural India
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