2025: A Year Where Water Changed What Was Possible
There are years that pass quietly, and then there are years that leave a mark.
For Community Pure Water, 2025 was the latter.
It was a year of carefree mornings in villages, of school corridors filled with laughter, of CPW bottles clinking during lunch breaks, and of communities choosing health over uncertainty. It was a year where clean water didn’t just quench thirst, it changed daily life.
When Clean Water Becomes a Constant
In 2025, Community Pure Water completed 75 new water purification installations across India.
36 that serve entire villages, 35 in rural schools, and 4 in rural clinics – reaching an estimated 90,000 people across Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Punjab, and Uttar Pradesh.
But numbers only tell part of the story.
Behind each installation was a familiar reality: children missing school due to preventable illness, women carrying the burden of unsafe water, families forced to make impossible trade-offs between health and income. Safe water was never just about infrastructure, it was about dignity, time, and peace of mind.
In villages, families now wake up knowing that the water they drink will not make them sick. In schools, students no longer wait until lunch breaks to drink borewell water. In clinics, care begins with something fundamental: safety.
With purified water available throughout the day in schools, children are falling sick less often and attending school more regularly. Mid-day meals, often the most nutritious food a child receives, are now cooked with clean water, making them safer and more nourishing.
For girls, this change is especially powerful. Fewer waterborne illnesses mean fewer absences. Fewer absences mean continuity. And continuity is often the difference between staying in school and slipping quietly out of it. These are the changes that rarely make headlines, but they are the ones that reshape lives from the ground up.
Building Systems That Last
Every Community Pure Water plant is built with a lasting view.
Each installation comes with long-term operation and maintenance commitments, continuous monitoring, and deep community involvement. Plants are not handed over and forgotten. Instead, they are supported, maintained, and strengthened over time, with the goal of building local ownership and lasting reliability.
This focus on sustainability was recognised nationally when Community Pure Water received the Excellence in Sustainable Water Management award at the Telangana Leadership Awards 2025 earlier this month.
The recognition mattered not as a milestone, but as a validation of an approach that prioritises responsibility over speed and impact over optics.
Conversations That Moved the Needle
2025 was also a year when Community Pure Water stepped into broader public conversations about water, health, and progress. We welcomed Mrs. Pratiksha Prashant to our Board as Chairperson, Fundraising Committee, bringing renewed momentum to partnerships and outreach. Under her leadership, we hosted a widely attended and covered panel discussion titled Solving Water: Unlocking Progress.
Moderated by renowned actress and activist Regena Cassandrra, the panel brought together:
- Ravi Reddy, Founder, Community Pure Water
- Peter Schwarzenbauer, Friends of Water & Former Member of the BMW Board of Management
- Kalpana Ramesh, Founder, The Rainwater Project
The discussion moved beyond charity to ask harder questions: about productivity, public health, groundwater contamination, and why safe water must be treated as foundational infrastructure for national development.
Recognising Leadership, Reflecting Collective Effort
During the year, CPW’s work and the thinking behind it, also received individual recognition.
Earlier this month, our Founder Ravi Reddy was honoured with the Changemaker Award 2025 at the Annual Forum organised by Democratic Sangha, recognising decades of commitment to water equity in rural India.
His journey was acknowledged on a global platform as well, with a Forbes India feature highlighting his lifelong work in the water sector.
These moments were never about individual achievement. They reflected the collective effort of teams, donors, partners, and most importantly, the communities that choose to sustain and protect these systems every day.
Showing Up Where Change Happens
In 2025, Community Pure Water also strengthened its presence within India’s broader philanthropy and sustainability ecosystem.
We were proud to participate in the 12th India CSR & ESG Summit in New Delhi, led by Ms. Sumeet Rawla, Chief Philanthropy Officer, engaging directly with corporate leaders and ESG practitioners.
CPW was also a part of India Giving Day, organised by the India Philanthropy Alliance, helping amplify the case for safe water among the global Indian diaspora, in March 2025.
Closer to home in August 2025, CPW partnered as a charity with the NMDC Hyderabad Marathon not just with banners, but with energy. The team ran, danced, and celebrated the mission together, reminding everyone that impact is sustained not only by systems, but by people who believe.
Looking Ahead to 2026
As 2025 draws to a close, what remains is gratitude, and resolve.
Gratitude for donors who trusted the vision.
For partners who stood alongside.
For operators who kept plants running.
And for communities who made safe water part of everyday life.
In 2026, Community Pure Water looks forward to deepening this impact: reaching more communities, strengthening existing systems, and continuing to place people at the center of every decision.
Because when water is safe, childhood lasts longer.
Families breathe easier.
Communities grow stronger.
And the future feels possible – one drop at a time.