PROJECTS:

The Slum Water Program (SWP)

The Slum Water Program is ReachOut Water's solution to begin to address the water crisis in the slums of Mumbai, India. Working in collaboration with the Municipal Corperation of Greater Mumbai (BMC) and their Slum Sanitation Program (SSP) headed by Mr. Anand Jugtap, ReachOut is partnering with community-based organizations that are currently managing sustainable community toilet facilities.  ReachOut is building off the success of the SSP to implement the SWP. 

The SWP is a sustainable, decentralized, community-based, demand-driven approach for providing safe water to the slums of India.  It addresses the four primary issues to water supply and delivery in India:

1. Quantity:
   
   Through better management, stewardship, and improvements in loss and leakage, the SWP makes better use of the limited water supply available to slum communities, effectively increasing water quantity to the end user.
   
   
2. Quality:
   
   Through the use of low-cost, high-efficiency treatment technologies, the SWP ensures that the water reaching the end user is free of disease causing pathogens. 
   
   
3. Management:
   
   Using the sustainable model of community-based management and the demand driven approach, the SWP ensures the long-term success of water installations through community buy in and intensive market research.
   
   
4. Access:
   
   Through the SWP storage component, the end user sees a greatly increased access to water, moving from 3-5 hours a day to a 24 hour water supply. 

To learn more about the SWP and ReachOut Water Solutions efforts in Mumbai, India, read the SWP business plan or contact info@reachout.com. 

The SWP business plan (PDF 2.08mb):

SWP technical scheme: