The Untapped Potential of Decentralized Solutions to Provide Safe, Sustainable Drinking Water at Large Scale
The State of the Safe Water Enterprises Market

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For over 15 years, entrepreneurs, impact investors, governments and philanthropic organizations have been experimenting with decentralized solutions that complement traditional utility approaches to expand access to safe drinking water. Structural factors point to a large permanent role and a larger bridge role for SWEs. There is a need to better understand SWE performance and expand their footprint beyond the 3 million people using them today. This study focuses on fourteen SWEs across continents and seeks to understand their performance, bottlenecks, and opportunities. SWEs in our study are strongly driven by their social mission of bringing safe water to the underserved, but no SWE in our study serves more than 1 M people; the average SWE serves 200,000. While markets for SWEs lookquitepromising in terms of need for safe water and ability to pay, the combination of low margins, low penetration rates, and competition make it a challenging business.

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Bhatnagar, N., Lampert, S., Goyal, V. Mehta, R., Rai, R. and Chandrasekhar A. (2017) The Untapped Potential of Decentralized Solutions to Provide Safe, Sustainable Drinking Water at Large Scale. The State of the Safe Water Enterprises Market , Dalberg Global Development Advisors

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