Maataram Foundation is a non-profit Organization that aims at providing scalable, safe drinking water solutions to underserved areas in India through advanced technology and innovative business models.
We have successfully completed our works and we run operations across Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka & Jharkhand India. As a result, over (2.5) lakh people in more than 24 locations live better given that they have access to pure, safe water provided by Maataram Foundation Community water Centres.
To provide inclusive access to affordable safe drinking water by engaging communities through a sustainable and professional approach.
To serve over 10 million consumers by 2030
Maataram Foundation has been successfully running over 24 plants in the state of Andhra Pradesh since 2010. The Foundation’s scope of work extends beyond the purification and water life cycle management, Maataram Foundation runs well conceived Social Marketing programs to change Community behaviour towards safe water. These programs are customized to spread awareness about the health benefits of safe water, even in communities where little or no healthcare knowledge exists. Maataram Foundation ensures that the water is priced at affordable prices such that even the economically weaker sections of the population are able to receive benefits of safe water
Parameters | Decentralized Systems | Centralized Systems |
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Capital Investment | Small per system Investment | Large Upfront Investment |
Installation Lead Time | Short – 4-6 months | Long 3-5 years |
Operation & Maintenance | Designed to be simple to operate & maintain | Complex requires secialized skills and long down time |
Quality Monitoring | At local level, where Consumers are served | At central plant, very far from point of consumtion |
Raw water Source | Optimized to make use of locl sources like onds, canals, wells etc. | Requires extra-large water sources like river, Dms etc. |
Adverse impact on environment | Low – due to optimum use of locl resources | High – due to use of large ntural resources |
The Central and State Governments and Municipal Corporations have focused on Centralized Water Treatment Systems over the years, the desired impact is yet to be achieved. However, the Government bodies have lately begun to understand the advantages and importance of Decentralized Water Purification Systems.
State Governments like Andhra Pradesh have understood the importance of Decentralized Water Purification Systems which can reach out to underserved communities in rural, semi-urban and even, urban areas through Public-Private-Partnership (PPP) model.
Maataram Foundation technology is based on UV & RO treatment works with pre-treatment systems and removes physical contaminants and deactivates all microorganisms in the water. The Reverse Osmosis system removes all the salts in the water up to 99%. However, through this process, some of the desirable minerals (for humans) are also removed. To arrest the loss of such salts which are required by the human body, but lost when passed through a Reverse Osmosis (RO) membrane.
Maataram has developed a process wherein the water (after the pre-treatment process) is divided into two streams; one stream is passed through a RO system and the other bypasses the same. The output from both the streams is then blended to provide safe drinking water that is low on TDS (Total Dissolved Solids) and contains certain amount of minerals essential for the human body. This is then passed through the UV unit which deactivates all the microbiological contamination that might be present in the water. The water is tested every fifteen days to ensure that the water quality strictly meets WHO standards. This process also helps in reducing the rejection and wastage of water.
Some of the advantages of using this solution are
Technology uses the filtered water from the cartridge filters which is passed through the UV by using the pressure of a supply pump. Here the water is exposed to the UV rays for 12 seconds during which all the microorganisms present in the water are deactivated. UV is more effective in terms of its performance due to the uniqueness of its design where the water has more surface area and the UV rays penetrate to last layer of the water stream. This enhances the efficiency of the water treatment process to almost three (3) times more as compared to other treatment processes.