Held in New York from March 22–24, 2023
UN 2023 Water Conference
Being Specially Aaccredted organisation by United Nation, WaterBANK launched five Waater Actions at the conference.
BarterWATER Mission Launched at the conference for propagating water for sustainable development.
Water is the basis of local-sustainable Ecology, Let it be the basis of local-sustainable Economy.
The UN 2023 Water Conference was the first major United Nations summit on water in a generation (since 1977). Co-hosted by Tajikistan and the Netherlands, it convened over 10,000 participants to address the global water crisis and accelerate progress toward UN Sustainable Development Goal 6 (SDG 6: Clean Water and Sanitation for All)
Being Specially Aaccredted organisation by United Nation, WaterBANK launched five Water Actions Agendas at the conference. Representing with its 10 member delegration, WaterBANK engaged more than a dozen organisations working on water, sustainable development and combatting climate-change.
WaterBANK Delegation at UN 2023 Water Conference
This mission aligns with the United Nations Decade for Action Agenda (2018-2028) and supports the achievement of Sustainable Development Goals (SDG 2030). By integrating clean water access with an eco-conscious economic system, the initiative empowers rural communities while ensuring environmental sustainability.
The BarterWATER initiative is based on an innovative incentive system that rewards efforts in community action with Rainbow Credits. These credits can be redeemed for clean drinking water from OAS Spring units or exchanged for essential nature-based goods and services, fostering a culture of responsible water use at the grassroots level.
In addition to the innovative ‘barter-for-impact’ model, the solution is deploying pioneering research from IIT-Kharagpur to tackle Arsenic contamination in the water sources using commonly found laterite mineral for binding and safe disposal of Arsenic.
Arsenic has had a devastating health impact on communities across at least eight States in North India, where communities lack affordable and easy-to-deploy solutions and suffer from high cancer rates.
With technological innovation, strong institutional support, and active community participation, the BarterWATER initiative is paving the way for a water-secure and environmentally responsible future, proving that sustainable solutions can be both impactful and scalable.
Events Organised by WaterBANK
Being Specially Aaccredted organisation by United Nation, WaterBANK launched five Water Actions Agendas at the conference.
Our Partners at UN 2023 Water Conference

WHEELS Global Foundation (WGF)
Pilot & Scale-up Partner
A PAN IIT initiative, WGF is working on upliftment of 20% Rurban population of India, with a focus on creating impact on Water, Healthcare, Energy, Edducation, Livelyhood and Sustainability.

WIN Foundation (USA)
Pilot Collaboration
WIN Foundation is a USA based charitable organisation working with a vision to empower lower middle class communities across India, with a focus on WASH and metarnal & childcare.

HUSK Power Systems
Energising water assets
HUSK is an award-winning distributed energy resources (DER) company providing electricity to unserved and underserved communities in the Global South, with its prime focus in India.

VAS Bros. Enterprises
Technology Partner
VAS Bros. is a deeptech impact venture working on development & deployement of sustainable technologies and solutions. OaS & TAP@APP IoT are the key pillars of the mission.

NITI Ayog, GoIndia
Policy advocacy
National Institutiion for Transsforming india (NITI) Ayog is the apex public policy think tank. to the Government of India. NITI Ayog has appriciated and endorssed the BarterWATER Mission.

United Nations Water
Philanthrphic global Support
BarterWATER mission was launched at UN 2023 Water Conference, as specially accredited event by UN Water. Vision: UN’s decade for action agenda, ‘water for sustainable development’

NECBDC/NBM
BAANS Mission
Our patrtnership with NECBDC, NBM is providing training & capacity building of bamboo products – an eccential BarterWATER activity for propagating eco-centric development.

IIT Kharagpur
Institutional Support
Academic & research support on various technologies to build a Unified AI-Driven Digital-Twin for Water Asset Resilience, Forecasting, and Community-Led Circular Economy.
Lives impacting
Daily Water Purifying
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Testimonials
A glipmse of unique perspective shared by different stakeholders of our missions.
Its commendable that WaterBANK's efforts are focused to provide clean and safe drinking water in Arsenic affected areas, and encourage community participation in lieu of drinking water credits. I am optimistic that this will bring out impactful outcomes in terms of overall standard of living.
Avinash Mishra Senior Advisor, Niti Ayog, Govt. of IndiaThe Saffron Bowl of India extends to the NorthEast. Plants from seeds transported from Kashmir to Sikkim and acclimatised there are now flowering in Yangyang in South district of Sikkim. (While addressing to the Upper house of Parliament regarding the KESAR Mission of WaterBANK)
Dr. Jitendra Singh Cabinet Minister DoNER, Govt. of IndiaDepartment of Science and Technology is proud to be associated with low cost locally available material based indigenous technology for arsenic removal. We hope the technology would lead to benefit the masses and address the arsenic menace effectively (About OAS Technology)
Dr. Sanjay Bajpai Head of Technology Mission,, DST, GoIWater is the central artery linking all aspects of sustainable development. "Water flows through the entire sustainable development landscape," bridging human well-being, gender equality, sustainable livelihoods, biodiversity conservation, and climate action.
Li Junhua Under-Secretary-General of UN DESAJoin Hands for a Sustainable Future
A nature-based circular-economy is the way to the future.
Whats New?
We are always trying something new. Sucess or failiur, its always a step forward towards our goals.
We are happy to support Water Bank Foundation's BarterWATER mission as the technologies emerging from the Labs of IIT Kharagpur is not only creating grassroot level impact, to provide Arsenic-free drinking water, but is also becoming the basis for a nature-based circular-0economy
Ratan Agarwal President, WHEELS Global Foundation