We take Govt norms sometimes as a kind of those unnecessary things, which the govt makes us follow. This is a wrong assumption. Same is the case with Rainwater Harvesting. How ?

How Rainwater harvesting will help you generate profit ?

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The Bottled Water Plants actually extract groundwater & treat that with RO. In this process, it removes the TDS from the groundwater. Usually, the extracted groundwater is stored in Raw Water Tanks before processing at the Water Treatment Plant. If Rainwater, being almost Zero TDS water is mixed in these tanks, it will reduce the total TDS of the water in the Raw Water Tanks. This will result in the following benefits :-

Decreased Groundwater Demand
Increased life of the RO system
Reduced wastage from RO Plant
Tax benefit at the municipal level

How to Implement This at the plant ?

While construction, build a proper rainwater collection system on roof tops & elsewhere. Build a sufficient capacity storage tank. It's easy. Your Architect can guide you on this.

It's not going to be a cake-walk for Bottled Water Industry anymore ...

The bottled water industry in India, is dominated by the "Packaged Drinking Water" segment. And the Packaged Drinking Water plants use Groundwater as their Raw Water Source. They typically install a Borewell & start extracting & using the water. Then water passes through other processes to make the safest water be available to the civilians.

The Water comes from Aquifers

Water, as we know, is stored in the soild, rock, in form of aquifers, which are the pockets where it has been preserved for many many years. The Rainwater, is passed through the soil to the channels and stored again in the earth. The process is called "Infiltration". From here the water is fed to the Borewell, which extracts it from the ground. The specific pockets are "Aquifers".

India uses the maximum Groundwater

India uses maximum groundwater, the most of it (>70%) is used by irrigation, and the rest for other purposes, which consists of Industry & Domestic use as well.

The laws are getting tougher .....

Already, states like West Bengal (Where you need to furnish your groundwater usage strictly), Kerala (where you need to take a permission for the propsed drilling site) & Tamilnadu, (where there are notifies areas not to drill a borewell) have started to implement certain strict laws, which is going to be challenging in future.

The Bottled Water Industry

Still, there is a good ground for the Bottled Water Industry on 2-3 accounts such as ...

It's going to be used for drinking water, the most essential commodity
Comparative water usage is lesser

Consider it in your cash-flow

If you are setting up a unit, please consider another licensing cost (it's no way easy to do business in India ) and the type of permissions too!

An update Aug '25 :- CGWA is compulsory for Packaged Drinking Water Plants now. And extraction above 10000 LPD is going to be chargeable.

Water Business

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