Our WaterActions
BarterWATER mission aims to establish water as the basis of a natuure-centric circular-economy for propagating a sustainable way to the future.
Water is the basis of local-sustainable Ecology, Let it be the basis of local-sustainable Economy.
The mission is to create an innovative and scalable model to provide safe drinking water to the communities, followed by engaging them into activities related to sustainable development and to combat climate-crisis, in exchange of Water (Rainbow) Credits.Â
Alligned with the vision of UN’s decade for action agenda (2018-28), ‘Water For Sustainable Development”, BarterWATER is one of the unique program to prevail sustainablity by community engagement and transparancy by emerging technologies.
Our approach
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.
Our WaterAction Missions
Ecoducation
Role of Academia in Water Action
This mission aims to engage the students in making academic campuses net-zero, while developing programs, events, and incentives to build ecological ethos amonst the youth. Youth need to be aware and active in the climate crisis actions because they will inherit the planet and its long-term consequences, and they can further in the society and industry.Â
Responsible Leadership & Governance
Role of Local Self-Governance in Water Action
Civic bodies has great potential to engage local community in direct ground action to combat climate-crisis and to accelarate SDGs. E.g., 29 governance subjects assigned to Panchayats (the local self Governance system of India) are closely linked wiith SDGs. By incentivising responsible leadership, this misssion aims to strenthen the ground action by such civic bodies.
BarterWATER for Sustanability
Nature-centric circular-economy
The BarterWATER initiative is based on an innovative incentive system that rewards nature-positive efforts in community action with Rainbow Credits. These credits can be redeemed for clean drinking water from or exchanged for essential nature-based goods and services, fostering a culture of responsible water use and accountable climate-action at the grassroots level.
Impact RISE Mission
Sustainable Technolog Develpment
Incubating and accelerating indigenous, sustainable technologies is pivotal to combating the climate crisis and achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). By bridging traditional knowledge with deep-tech, these programs cultivate green jobs and build vital adaptive capacity for vulnerable and remote communities.
PYAAS Mission
Pure, safe and healthy water for all
Globally, 2.1 billion people lack safely managed drinking water, and at least 1.7 billion use sources contaminated with feces. Using sustaiable technologies for water purification and monitoring & control of drinking water quality, PYAAS misssion aims to build & replicate community managed sustainable system to ensure Pure, safe and healthy drinking water.
BAANS Mission
Nature positive community
Biomass Allied Agro-forestry for Nature-based Solutions (BAANS) mission aims to promote ecofriendly solutions for sustainable development. Training and capacity building of local community in cultivation, treatment, and processing of locally available agricultural, forest and domestic waste into value (e.g., utiility item, organic fertilizer, biogas etc.).
Lives impacting
Daily Water Purifying
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Testimonials
A glipmse of unique perspective shared by different stakeholders of our missions.
Join Hands for a Sustainable Future
A nature-based circular-economy is the way to the future.Â
Whats New?
We are always trying something new. Sucess or failiur, its always a step forward towards our goals.Â
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