UN 2023 Water Conference: Water Bank Foundation Trust Proposes water to be the basis of sustainable economy at UN 2023 Water Conference
New York, USA: April 4, 2023 – Water Bank Foundation introduced its flagship mission, BarterWATER for Sustainability, to make water the basis of a local-sustainable economy, and to use drinking water as the basis to boost the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
At the live event, Rajat Gupta, Chairman of WHEELS Global Foundation (WGF) and Ruyintan (Ron) Mehta, President of WIN Foundation, signed an MOU with VAS Bros Enterprises Pvt Ltd, (Organic Aqua Solutions) in an effort to pilot a sustainable model for Arsenic-mitigation, in one panchayat (a cluster of Arsenic-poisoned villages) in Bihar
The special attention of the UN 2023 Water Conference was the new initiatives of Water Bank Foundation to get time commitment by individuals for its water action via campaigns BarterTIME & WaterTIME, as UN also highlights that water is everyone’s business.
‘Apart from providing a sustainable solution to avail arsenic-free, pure, safe, and healthy drinking water to the villagers, we aim to demonstrate a robust rural WASH model using bartering water for the behavior change in sanitation’ said Saket Kumar, President & Managing Trustee of WaterBANK.
The mission is powered by OÃS technology for water purification, a highly anticipated leap in clean-water technology, declared among the Top 100 innovations in India topped the list of innovations in WASH (Global Water, Sanitation and Hygiene).
About Water Bank Foundation Trust: The Water Bank Foundation Trust was built to prioritize water action to push
forward sustainable ecology & economy in India and places where clean water is inaccessible for many. The non-profit organization exists with a vision to value pure, safe, & healthy drinking water as the basis of local-sustainable economy to educate, empower, enable, and then engage the local community into the actions related to the agendas of Sustainable Development Goals.
