Water ATMs emerge in India’s urban slums — a clean water breakthrough?
Water ATMs emerge in India’s urban slums — a clean water breakthrough?
- September 9, 2013
A for-profit five-year-old startup called Saravajal (“water for all” in Sanskrit) has built a business off of developing franchise-run water filtration and distribution services in rural areas of India. It is now in the process of launching newly-developed connected ATM-style systems that can distribute low cost, clean water to customers using an ATM card.
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