Consumers need access to affordable, clean drinking water. These needs are either unmet or met by: •Expensive packaged drinking water •Unsafe tap water •Purifying unsafe water with high capital costs The only way to deliver water affordably is unpackaged drinking water. Amrutdhara addresses 3 major concerns: •Quality assurance through technology & design to measure and communicate •Access through a viable product & distribution •Affordable pricing through elimination of packaging & minimising logistics Amrutdhara will bridge this gap by creating a modular system of water dispensing stations. These have 3 salient features: •To enable easy access we will have a dense network of these stations across the urban fabric •Cloud based real time monitoring will help with quality assurance & efficient maintenance •Communication of quality through implicit & explicit means Milestones so far: •Functional prototype for a vending machine •Pilot in Pondicherry & Mahabalipuram