WaterHealth International: Providing Safe Drinking Water to the Bottom of the Pyramid Consumers

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Case Code : LDEN069
Case Length : 26 Pages
Period : 1992-2009
Pub Date : 2010
Teaching Note : Available
Organization : WaterHealth International Inc.
Industry : Safe Water
Countries : India; Africa; Global

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Scaling Up

Many investors were attracted by the business model and ingenious technology adopted by WHI. This led to WHI scaling up significantly after it emerged from bankruptcy in 2002...

The Challenges

WHI had to negotiate various challenges over the years. Some of these still posed significant obstacles in the way of its achieving its mission. WHI's initial challenges lay in the cost of its UVW system since most of the communities targeted by WHI were under-served and lacked adequate capital to install the system...

Outlook

By mid-2009, WHI was providing safe drinking water to more than one million people around the world. The company was successful in attracting capital for scaling up its operations despite the economic situation continuing to be grim...

Exhibits

Exhibit I: WHI's Vision and Values
Exhibit II: How the UVW Technology Worked
Exhibit III: A Typical System Configuration of a WHI System
Exhibit IV: Photographs of WHCs
Exhibit V: WHI's Investment Cost Advantage vs. Other Options
Exhibit VI: List of Awards and Recognition Received by Gadgil and his UVW Technology
Exhibit VII: WHI Operational Structure in India
Exhibit VIII: Some Business Models Adopted by Organizations Operating in the Safe Water Sector
Exhibit IX: WHI's Management Team and Board of Directors


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