We envision a world with safe drinking water, and a nature-centric circular-economy

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Water Bank Foundation Trust (WaterBANK) is a public charitable trust working towards propagating a nature-centric circular economy, through developement of sustainable technology and promotion of sustainable management practices.

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Background

Few words about us

Water Bank Foundation Trust (WaterBANK) is a public charitable trust registered under Maharashtra Public Trust Act 1950, with registration number E-36066 (Mumbai).

With a vision to create a significant impact on the issues at the bank of the water, WaterBANK foundation is constituted with a unique perspective towards Ecology and Economy for prevailing Sustainability. Our flagship program BarterWATER for sustainability aims towards incentivising the local community with drinking water credits, in lieu of SDG actions to combat climate change.

Our approach

Our approach is to build and promote sustainable technologies, sustainable management practices and nature centric ethos to enable, empower and engage the local community in addressing the climate crisis issues. Local Action for Global Impact is our methodology.

 

Creating sustainable WaterBANK units to provide pure, safe, and healthy water for drinking, cooking and agriculture purposes is our key focus area.

Waste management is directly related to water quality management, and is another key focus area for us.

Community participation in managing the water resources and nature-positive assets.

Our other programmes related to agriculture, livelihood, education, healthcare etc. also focus, firstly to create value for the local community, and to further engage them into Water Actions to combat climate crisis. 

 

What Keeps Us Moving Forward?

The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today. Let us move forward with strong and active faith.

Our Vision

Water is the basis of local-sustainable Ecology, Our vision is to propagate water as the basis of nature-based local-sustainable circular-economy.

Our Mission

To engage local community into Nature positive actions, by incentivising with drinking water credits, to achieve sustainable development goals faster.

Our Goal

To provide pure, safe, and healthy drinking water to 20% of habitats affected with critical water quality issues (Arsenic and other heavy metals), and to promote barter systems to create impact on other SDGs through community participation, by 2030.

Our Motto

यथा जलं जले न्यस्तं सलिलं भेदवर्जितम्। प्रकृतिं पुरुषं तद्वदभिन्नं प्रतिभाति मे।। (अवधूत गीता, 51st Verse) (When water from one source mingles into water from another source, It becomes nondual. Similar to that indifference in the mixed water, Human and Nature just appears to be different)

Meet the team

Saket Kumar

Strategy & Execution

Alumnus of IIT Kharagpur, a former GE Risk Analyst, Saket is the founding president of WaterBANK

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Nishant Ojha

Communication & Outreach

Alumnus of IIT Kharagpur and IIM Bangalore, Nishant is the founder of Bridge2Business

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B D Awasthi

Technology & Engineering

Alumnus of IIT Kanpur, Awasthi is the founder of  Whirlybird Electronics.

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Apurv Gupta

Operations & Logistics

Alumnus of NIKMAR Goa, Apurv is director at VB Entreprises owning OAS & TAP@APP 

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Prahlad Kakar

Senior Advisor

The Brand Strategist, Prahlad is the founding trustee of Water BANK Foundation

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Rashi Bunny Bhatnagar

Strategic Advisor

Alumnus of University of Alabama and Rutgers University, Rashi is the founding trustee of WBF

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Madhur Khanna

Water Advisor

Architect in Washigton DC, Madhur is a strategic advisor in BarterWATER

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Nitant Mate

Advisor, Technology Development

Alumnus of Colorado State University, Founder of SeeGreen Solutions, Nitant is an technology advisor.

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Testimonials

A glipmse of unique perspective shared by different stakeholders of WaterBANK's missions.

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 (USA)

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 India

The 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 India

Department 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 Division, DST, GoI

Water 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 DESA

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Water is the basis of Local-Sustainable-Ecology, let it be the basis of Local-Sustainable-Economy. A nature-based circular-economy is the way to the future. 

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Whats New?

We are always trying something new. Sucess or failiur, its always a step forward towards our goals. 

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