Community Pure Water works with rural communities to make safe drinking water affordable, accessible and available 24/7.
How we started
In 2009, Mr. Ravi Reddy founded a simple and holistic initiative called Community Pure Water in Telangana to supply safe drinking water for rural communities.
Hailing from a family of farmers, Ravi Reddy along with his brother and Co-Founder Bokka Reddy, spent most of their summers in his native village in Nalgonda District, Telangana. Since the well water in their home was unsuitable for drinking or cooking, their morning chore was to walk to the other side of the village to procure water for family consumption. This water was also barely safe for drinking, but there was no other choice.
For years, the brothers watched their father, a civil engineer, offer his services to those in need in his community. He set up a charitable trust to fund the construction of a community center in the village, install a septic tank in every household and a robust storm drain system for the entire village. Their father’s 50-year-old legacy of community service was the true inspiration behind the inception of Community Pure Water.
Mr. Ravi Reddy says, “Having observed a plethora of safe water initiatives underperform and fail, my brother - with his military mindset of precision, process and discipline, and I - with my entrepreneurial spirit, set up CPW to find a permanent solution. Our overarching desire and singular focus is that every family in every village should have access to safe water.”
Today, Community Pure Water has one of the most cost-effective, high quality and long-term sustainable programs for safe water.
Where we work
Community Pure Water currently operates water purification centers in 500+ villages and schools across six states in India, distributing over 9 million liters of water every month. With support from our partners and rural communities, we aspire to provide safe water to every family in every village in India.
States in which Community Pure Water has built WPCs
Vision Statement
Protecting rural communities with safe water, creating a ripple effect of better health, equitable opportunity and enduring prosperity.
Executive Team
Bokka Reddy
Co-Founder and Director
Vijay Chitnis
Senior Advisor
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Sumeet Rawla
Chief Philanthropy Officer
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Lakshmi Konamaneni
Chief Executive Officer, India
CPW Board members
David A. Carpenter
Corporate Lawyer, Partner - Mayer Brown
Bill Beecher
Venture Partner, Board Member
Kishore Kothapalli
Entrepreneur, Philanthropist, Mentor and Investor, Board Director
Chandra Shekhar Reddy Kundur
Entrepreneur, Investor, Mentor
Pratiksha Prashant
Architect, Jewelery Designer
Aparajita Konamaneni
Lawyer, Entrepreneur
Dr. Paramjit Grover
Toxicologist, PhD, Emeritus Scientist, Indian Institute of Chemical Technology
CDF Board members
Bokka Reddy
Co-Founder and Director
Ravi Reddy
Founder
Satish Konamaneni
Entrepreneur
Lakshmi Konamaneni
Chief Executive Officer, India
Sumeet Rawla
Chief Philanthropy Officer
Aparajita Konamaneni
Lawyer, Entrepreneur
Operations Team
Donors and Partners
Our partners make our work possible. These businesses and foundations have provided funding, technology, and other tools that allowed us to provide safe water for hundreds of thousands of people in rural India.
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