Water and Sanitation

 The UN Sustainable Development Goal 6 and their targets mention the challenges facing the world in the area of Water (see https://www.globalgoals.org/6-clean-water-and-sanitation for more).

India too has existing and emerging challenges of 

(i) availability of enough quantity and quality of water for various uses and 

(ii) Sanitation to fulfill the increasing demands in various parts of the country.  

This requires a need to facilitate innovations and their widespread adoption in the water and sanitation domain, which include rural and urban water supply, water harvesting, drinking water treatment, toilets, optimum water usage in agriculture, waste-water handling/recycling, solid waste handling, elimination of manual scavenging, as well as water-related hygiene promotion.

WIN Foundation champions community participation and empowerment, to bring technology-driven solutions that are novel, unique, and affordable, with minimal or most effective use of energy.

Building community resilience is the major focus of WIN and its partners through a participatory approach, creating a local team of young men and women, trained on both the supply and demand side of water. management, at the village level. Their water conservation efforts, through improvement in water availability and quality and also more resilient agriculture practices among marginal farmers, have substantially,  increased capacity among those communities in facing erratic weather and climate change.