We are excited to have participated in the Ripple Effect workshop in Hyderabad last month, and to receive a grant from the Ripple Effect project, a collaboration between IDEO and the Acumen Fund that aims to enable innovations that will strengthen water enterprises.

Our grant helps us build a real-time rural point-of-sale system that will allow end consumers to have an RFID card which can be recharged with varying amounts of money as the currency for purchasing water from their local franchisee or, more interestingly, from a self-service or managed distribution point closer to their home.  The intent:  to use our machines for longer in the day, reach more people within walking distance from their homes, and, in turn, make the business more viable for our franchisees.

We will post more on our progress as we have it.