Pure Water For The Needy

It was in 2014 that the then United Nations’ Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said, “Access to safe drinking water, sanitation and hygiene must feature prominently in the post2015 development agenda.

- Nikhil Raghavan

We must improve water quality and the management of water resources and wastewater. This is a matter of justice and opportunity.”

Way back in 2006, the US-based A. J. Antunes & Co. had zeroed in on a Kolkata-based NGO, Splash to provide clean water to the underprivileged families of the city. “Children living in urban poverty regularly have little control or no choice about the water they consume. In a world where restaurants and hotels for tourists can get clean water anytime and anywhere, it is hard to imagine that children in the same cities cannot,” felt the people at the helm of the family running the Antunes business. By then, Splash was doing yeoman service in Kolkata and Antunes felt that their core values in manufacturing water purification systems had a lot of synergies in what the NGO was doing.

Splash is a social justice organisation committed to the poor, an international development agency disciplined around urban economies and also a social enterprise dedicated to providing safe water to children.

In India, a closely held family-run manufacturing business, NADI Airtechnics Pvt. Ltd. had already established itself in the making of industrial and public use heavy-duty fans, which were extensively used in railways, factories, industrial units and other places. Almost single-handedly promoted and efficiently run by J. B. Kamdar, Managing Director, NADI, was looking out for doing some meaningful work under Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR).