Launched in 2024, the project, ‘Drop by Drop Initiative’, aims at increasing access to clean water and associated channels amongst the socioeconomically challenged slum communities of Delhi. The central mission of the project is to spread awareness amongst these communities about the necessity of using clean water for different purposes, and train them in collectively maintaining novel infrastructures that would provide clean water to the entire locality. As a preliminary step thereby, the project is working on a survey to gather detailed information from the community people about their experience of water shortage, knowledge about methods like rainwater harvesting and leakage-proof storage facilities, which would provide them with a sustainable source of clean water. This information would then be used towards preparing an original learning manual that would focus on the need for the installation of low-cost interventions to procure clean water and save the same for longevity, providing low-income households and communities with a thorough understanding of the low-cost infrastructures that would prove to be efficient for their needs.
As a logistical support, the project will be organizing a fundraiser, proceeds from which would go towards the installation of efficient water collection and saving systems like solar-powered pumps, rainwater harvesting systems, leak-proof water storage systems, and mechanisms that would not harm the local aquifers. In addition, for the young members of these underserved communities, the project will organize interactive workshop sessions during which the children will be informed about the problems of water shortage and pollution that plagues the world today, so that they will also realize the need for innovative solutions that focus on water conservation and economic use. Through these efforts, the project intends to not only support the present members of the socioeconomically challenged communities but also support the young leaders who would become the trailblazers of water conservation efforts in the future.