Every student and visitor at NeelGyan library in Shekhupur Raura now has free access to clean, RO-purified drinking water, around the clock. The new purification plant was installed after our own water tests showed the village borewell supply was not safe to drink.
Key details
- Full purification chain: sediment and carbon pre-treatment, anti-scalant dosing, four RO membranes and a UV stage just before the sealed dispenser
- Capacity of about 50 litres per hour — roughly 250 litres a day
- Feed water checked with a NABL lab test (TDS, arsenic, fluoride, nitrate, iron, hardness and bacteria); bacteriology re-tested every few months
- Free for every student and visitor, 24×7
“पानी का स्वाद पहले से बहुत बेहतर है” — the water tastes much better than before.
A student at the library
Why we built our own
Our borewell is only about 100 feet deep, runs at roughly 500 TDS, and sits right next to a soak pit. The real risk is not just hard, salty water — it is contamination: bacteria, nitrates and organics that can seep into shallow groundwater.
We could have bought a cheap, off-the-shelf RO. Instead we did our homework and designed a proper commercial-grade, multi-stage plant, sized for the library and tuned to what the lab test actually found in our water. Because our source is a shallow borewell next to a soak pit, we treat water safety as ongoing — the dispenser is sealed and sanitised regularly.
