Access to clean drinking water, combined with the practice of hygiene and sanitation, is perhaps the single greatest preventative health catalyst in the world.

Annually, more than 1.8 million children (5,000 per day) die from illness directly caused by the ingestion of poor quality drinking water.   Lack of access to clean drinking water is the second biggest killer of children globally.  One sixth of the world’s population, 1.1 billion people, do not have a source of water that meets minimal standards for drinking.  At any moment in time, 50% of the population of the developing world is suffering from a water-borne or sanitation related illness; the same proportion of hospital beds are occupied by people whose illness was preventable by access to clean drinking water.

There is a simple solution to better health for many:  clean drinking water.    Access to safe water improves daily productivity, minimizes the amount of time lost by illness, and most importantly, improves the immediate and long term health prospects of communities.

Clean water awareness, water purification machinery, bottled water at eateries – while the norm for the urban and upwardly mobile – are often luxuries for those at the bottom of the pyramid.

Piramal Water Private Limited is developing solutions that make locally-sourced, locally-purified, and locally-consumed drinking water an acceptable and affordable option for everyone.