The Water Collective’s goal for 2017 is to provide water filters to 156 families living in Dabal, Uttar Pradesh, India. The main water source for families in Dabal is the Kali River, heavily contaminated with poisonous metals such as lead and chromium.
This is quite different from the nonprofit’s projects in Cameroon, where its work centered around building catchment systems in communities and rehabilitating water systems by adding new tap stands and fixing broken ones.
But that is the model Water Collective follows: no one-size-fits-all approach. The aid organization tailors its solutions to what they discover is needed in the community they’ve partnered with, which isn’t always about the lack of taps or water pumps.