JALDOOT the water messenger is dedicated to the rural community for accessing safe drinking water at doorsteps, thus helping the community to reduce health issues related to water-borne diseases. It promotes entrepreneurship and employment generating model especially for rural women and improves the overall livelihood in villages.
India has the highest number of people in the world without access to safe water as per Water Aid report 2016, the number being 5% of the population. Nearly 550 million people have to walk far away to fetch the water from its source, exposing women and children to a variety of challenges. Nearly 140,000 children die every year from diarrheal diseases caused by contaminated water and more than 90% of communicable diseases in India is water-borne, which can be prevented with access to safe to drinking water. It leads to financial losses due to medical treatment of water-borne diseases, mortality and morbidity. It has a negative impact on livelihood earning due to absenteeism, School dropouts (specifically among teenage girls) and opportunity cost for the time being wasted to fetch water from distant sources.
It is highly scalable and sustainable safe drinking water delivery model. The idea behind Jaldoot is to reduce rural women's traveling long distances to a source of water carrying water pots on their heads, a very stressful, fatigue prone and time-consuming. It makes safe drinking water accessible to the rural community at door steps and helps them to reduce various health issues related to water-borne diseases like - Typhoid, Cholera, Dehydration etc. The majority of water sources in rural areas are highly contaminated with chemicals like `iron, fluorides, nitrates, and bacterias like e-Coli, coliform. The community proposed to pay the reasonable cost if they could get clean and safe drinking water at door steps.
JALDOOT is a very innovative concept with various features, a unique innovation implemented 1st time in India. It has the indigenous patented technology to Purify water `On Go i.e. Mobile Purification system. Door step delivery as JALDOOT is 3-wheeler with Ultra Filtration (UF) water purification unit with 500-liter storage tank. The Mobile purification does not require electricity to operate the purification unit. It also has `Stationary Water Kiosk' with ATM card, Auto Dispensing system and promotes rural entrepreneurship and employment generating a sustainable business model. 90% of projects are operated and run by local rural women. JALDOOT has become a channel for creating `Social Awareness' within a community on Water Quality and its impact on human body.
It has created awareness about the importance of cleanliness and hygiene to improve upon social, individual and household health. The community has been ensuring cleanliness where JALDOOT has initiated its projects.
More than 30000 individuals are now having JALDOOT's access to safe drinking water on the daily basis and it has created employment for more than 25 rural individuals. It has reduced the number of people infected by water borne diseases like – cholera, diarrhea, typhoid etc.
JALDOOT has been successfully demonstrating Economic impact on entire livelihood in project implemented villages. The Annual savings has increased in medicinal expenses from Rs. 5000 to 6000 per family, monthly Earning through employment from Rs. 3000 to 7000 pm and monthly Earning through Entrepreneurship–@ Rs. 10000 to 20000
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