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• 37.7 million affected by waterborne diseases annually

• 1.5 million children are estimated to die of diarrhea alone annually

• 73 million working days are lost due to waterborne disease each year

• 1,95,813 habitations are affected by poor water quality

Some Important Facts

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Present Drinking Water Supply

• Through Overhead Water Tanks• Hand pumps• Through Rivers and ponds• Deep bore well• Packaged Drinking water

How to overcome this Problem?

• Develop a self sustainable system to share long term responsibility & coordination – between government and Community

• Public - Private Partnership is the key to success

For Sustainable Solutions – WaterHealth

• Solves long-time water safety problems in rural and urban areas

• Decentralized, micro-utilities Unprecedented ability to scale rapidly

• Long-term operations and maintenance

• Creative fusion of path-breaking technology platform

• Unparalleled low-cost, affordable even to those earning less than $2 per day • Invests in community training and development

• Community ownership, education and empowerment

• Local employment / seeding entrepreneurial development

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Who we are• WHI is an Indian Company based in Hyderabad that is providing water

purification solutions

• Provides safe drinking water to international WHO standards

• Distributed, decentralized facilities ( Water Health Centers) for purifying water are quick, easy and inexpensive to set up

• Work in PPP model

• WHI builds, operates, services and maintains the WHC’s and monitors quality for sustained supply of drinking water.

• Presently operational in AP, Gujarat & Maharashtra with installations in over 210 villages (WHC) and another 100 under construction. WHI services, maintains and operates all these centers

• Proprietary Water Quality Labs test water samples from WHC’s on a regular basis

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Average per Capita Investment Costsfor water provision and treatment

WHI’s Investment Cost Advantage vs. Other Treatment Options

* Based on WHI WaterHealth Centre serving 3,000 people with 10-20 Liters/person/daySource: WHO/UNICEF Global Water Supply and Sanitation Assessment 2000 Report, average international per capita

investment costs

WaterHealth WaterHealth produces WHO-produces WHO-quality potable quality potable water at a lower water at a lower capital capital investment per investment per person than person than other other interventionsinterventions

WaterHealth WaterHealth produces WHO-produces WHO-quality potable quality potable water at a lower water at a lower capital capital investment per investment per person than person than other other interventionsinterventions

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• Turn-key, full service, community-owned assets

• Reach thousands with a single installation

•WHO-quality water sufficient to meet all potable water needs

• Self-sustaining through low, treated water user fees

WaterHealth Centres TMHigh-quality water for under-served markets

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International Reach

550 Field & Commercial Installations Worldwide…

How can we help the community through safe drinking water?

• Family Health– Elderly members of family and children are the most affected.

• Family Productivity – Care of sick relatives places - an additional burden on other family

members could be reduced– Children can avoid missing school– Elderly people can care of themselves or help care for young

children.• Family Economics

– Sick adults miss work, drastically reducing the family income.– Healthy adults miss work to care for ailing family members.– Family income has to be spent for medicines or hospitalization of

sick person.• Community Health

– The health of a community is reflective of the overall health of its citizens.

WaterHealth in Andhra Pradesh

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•Over 230 Community water systems operational in 8 Districts of Andhra Pradesh•Over 100 new community water systems are under construction in Andhra Pradesh

•Reached 9,548 Children, 458 Schools in 194 villages with our flagship School Health program•Trained 324 teachers in 86 schools •346 Anganwadi( pre-school) Centers•Addressed 1,974 Mother’s Committees •Held 2,431 meetings with Self Help Groups•Door-to-door campaign’s covering 4,300 households•Conducted 69 rallies on safe water with the involvement of school children

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