Know how IIT students are providing safe water with ‘Saaf Water’ device
Saaf Water is a platform built by IIT Madras students to address the rural population's need for clean water. It is a user-friendly water quality sensor and analytics platform that was developed in December 2020. Hrishikesh Bhandari was inspired to design such a program when his mother became very ill as a result of drinking polluted water. She was hospitalized till March 2021 after mistakenly consuming water from the village's public groundwater-powered pump in Karnataka. After hearing about similar cases of water pollution, Hrishikesh contacted his batchmate to devise a strategy to solve the situation. This inspired the program's designers to develop a sensor that would allow rural residents to test the quality of their water and receive findings in an intelligible language. They discussed some of the possible remedies after determining the problem. Finally, they came up with the concept of developing a tester to help people in rural regions determine the quali...