Water Europa is a community water initiative based in Kashmore, Sindh, Pakistan. The project provides affordable, purified drinking water for as low as $0.07/gallon to communities affected by severe groundwater salinity and chemical dumping.
Families in Kashmore collect purified drinking water from the facility.
A community-level reverse osmosis (RO) water facility in Kashmore.
The streets of Kashmore, a community in need of clean, accessible water.
People served every day
Families collect purified drinking water from the Kashmore facility.
Raised to support the project
Raised to establish and run the Kashmore facility.
Kashmore RO Plant operational
Treating local groundwater with reverse osmosis and filtration.
Kashmore faces serious challenges with access to safe drinking water. Groundwater in the area is highly saline, while chemical dumping has also contributed to concerns about local water quality.
For many families, accessing usable drinking water can require traveling 20km to the nearest water source and transporting water back home or purchasing expensive branded water. This makes access difficult, especially for rural communities with limited infrastructure and affordability.
To the nearest water source
Affordable, purified drinking water
"Every glass of clean water we deliver
is a child who doesn't miss school
because they're sick."
The project operates a community-level reverse osmosis (RO) water facility in Kashmore and focuses on making safe drinking water more accessible to local families.
The facility operates from a space provided by my uncle in Kashmore, which allowed us to establish the project without having to take on a separate rental cost for the location.
The RO machinery was arranged and transported from Karachi.
Somil Keswani, Co-Founder & Project Lead
Water Europa has raised $10,000+ to support the project.
Funds have been used toward establishing and operating the facility, including equipment, maintenance, transportation, repairs, and other project expenses.
Founder
Founder of Water Europa, the community water initiative based in Kashmore, Sindh.
Founder
Founder of Water Europa, a project focused on making safe drinking water more accessible to local families.
Co-Founder & Project Lead
Project lead who arranged the Kashmore facility.
The facility uses reverse osmosis and filtration to treat local groundwater and produce purified drinking water.
From groundwater to drinking water: here is how the plant treats it, step by step, and what the results look like.
At Water Europa, our water treatment process begins by collecting groundwater in a storage tank.
The water then passes through carbon-filtering vessels, which help remove impurities.
A series of pipes carry it through sediment filtration to remove accumulated dirt and suspended particles.
Next, water pumps send the filtered water into the Reverse Osmosis (RO) system, which uses specialised membranes, imported from the USA and supplied by Toray Membrane USA, Inc., to remove dissolved salts and other impurities.
An automatic dosing pump injects antiscalant into the system to prevent mineral deposits from accumulating on the RO membranes, helping maintain filtration efficiency.
Finally, the treated water is stored and passed through an additional antibacterial rod filter before distribution to the local community.
Our plant uses groundwater with an initial Total Dissolved Solids (TDS) level of approximately 2200 ppm. The RO membrane rejects approximately 95 to 97% of the dissolved salts, lowering the TDS level to around 120 to 130 ppm, depending on the season. During June and July, the treated water’s TDS level can fall to approximately 60 to 70 ppm.
The longer term goal is to expand beyond a single village. Scroll the journey, each milestone lights up as we pass it.
Our first plant, built to prove that community-run RO can work reliably in high-salinity Sindh.
An adjacent village, Kandhkot provided us with the ideal setting needed to set up a RO Plant. With sufficient funds collected and field work such as location analysis carried out, the process has started yet again. Eagerly awaiting the arrival of the machinery, we hope to recreate the exhilarating moments while setting up the RO plant in Kandhkot in early 2027.
Funds collected & location analysis done. Awaiting machinery.
After Kandhkot, we plan to expand to Shikarpur and Ghotki in late 2027.
A community-level RO facility in a space provided by a family member, with machinery brought in from Karachi.
Plant Location
Kashmore, Sindh
“The human right to water is indispensable for leading a life in human dignity. It is a prerequisite for the realization of other human rights.”
people in Kashmore now have access to affordable, purified drinking water, every single day.
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