Small, independent water treatment and vending businesses are proliferating throughout urban centers in Southeast Asia and Latin America. The rapid growth of this sector is driven by growing consumer demand for safe drinking water and low confidence in the quality of municipal water supplies. The evolution of successful business models for commercial water treatment and vending has produced the only decentralized safe water delivery system that has reached significant numbers of poor consumers.
Our analysis of how this industry has emerged and evolved has driven the development of our Water Business Kits consulting program.