SHRI partnered with Rippleworks to make facilities more data-driven and self-reliant

SHRI’s founders, Chandan, Prabin, and Anoop, met in New Delhi during the summer of 2010 to start their own organization. All of them were hoping to lead public health efforts in India, but they didn’t know where to begin. They travelled to the state of Bihar, where Chandan is from, and through conversations with local health workers, government officials, and community members, decided to tackle one of the state’s biggest challenges to public health — open defecation.

In India, an estimated 600 million citizens lack access to basic sanitation services, and 100 million lack access to clean water. SHRI’s solution addresses both of these issues. They construct toilet facilities in the poorest Indian communities, use the methane gas produced from the toilets to power water filtration and distribution sytems, and provide villages with clean water at an affordable price. Their efforts are bringing toilets where open defecation is almost universal, improving the lives of India’s most rural communities. SHRI currently operates 11 facilities, providing 90,000L of clean water each month to the Indian states of Bihar and Jharkhand. 

One of SHRI’s top priorities going into this project was ensuring their sanitation monitoring and evaluating system (M&E) could be easily adopted by operators prior to the launch of a new pilot program in Tamil Nadu.  

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