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Drinkwell. Livewell. Bewell.
Transforming the global water crisis into economic opportunity.
Minhaj Chowdhury
[email protected]
Livewell. Bewell.
Livewell. Bewell.
177 million
230,000 deaths/year
$100/month $100/month • 
Dr. Arup K. SenGupta
Team
-  Inventor of Drinkwell System
-  Internationally renowned groundwater expert
-  PC Rossin at Professor of Civil, Environmental, and
Chemical Engineering at Lehigh University
-  2012 Fulbright Scholar (India)
• 
Minhaj Chowdhury
-  Managed 500 household arsenic projects with Johns
Hopkins and BRAC, the largest NGO in the world
-  2012 Fulbright Scholar (Bangladesh)
-  BA, Public Health Studies (Johns Hopkins)
• 
Mike German
-  Engineered DrinkWell system for use in low-resource
environments
-  2013 Fulbright Scholar (India)
-  PhD Environmental Engineering Candidate (Lehigh)
• 
Nick Soilleux
-  Strategy, Finance, and Legal expertise within social
enterprise
-  JD Candidate (Boston College)
25+ years experience in water and sanitation space
200+ Operational Plants
India
16.2
Million
Liters per
month
Laos and
Cambodia
1.86
Million
Liters per
month
Awards
Select
Build
India
and
Bangladesh
Initial Target
Market:
48M Villagers
Sell
Collect
Select
Build
Sell
Sell
Collect
Advantage
Drinkwell = A Competitive
Cheap,
Efficient Solution
Existing Options
Too Expensive $.005 per L
$.30 per L
Too Inefficient 40-60% water wastage
Incompa7ble Filtrates iron
1% water
wastage
Filtrates iron,
arsenic, fluoride,
and uranium
Projected Plant Economics
$1,800/month $83/month $5/month $267/month Livewell. Bewell.
Seeking $300,000 in Seed Funding
$130,000 – Capital Costs
$70,000 - Monitoring
$100,000 - Marketing
•  Open 6 Drinkwellbranded plants by end
of 2013
•  Field Operations
Personnel
•  Mobile Management
Platform
•  Flow Sensor,
Connectivity Meter to
remotely manage
system operations
•  Launch “Drinkwell,
Livewell, Bewell”
Branding Campaign
•  Celebrity-Endorsed
Marketing Materials
“Through this arsenic mi1ga1on technology, not only have you helped us transform the health crisis into a revenue genera1ng business while drinking safe water, you’ve created hope and opportunity for us when no one – not even us – thought there was any.” -­‐ Sak7 Sadhana Club Member, Ashoknagar, West Bengal, India