Water & Sanitation NGOs in India

AAs - Aim for the Awareness of Society

Child protection, girls' education and water & sanitation programs in Indore since 2005

AAs (Aim for the Awareness of Society) operated the Government of India's child helpline 1098 for 12 years, pr

Abhipsa Foundation (GuruJal)

Runs GuruJal, an integrated water-management initiative reviving Gurugram's ponds and wells.

In FY 2024-25, GuruJal reached 5 cities pan-India, running 30+ programmes with 100+ partners and 100% audited

Action Against Hunger India

Indian chapter of the global Action Against Hunger network, working on nutrition, health, WASH and food-security programmes.

For six years, dedicated to uplifting 39 villages in Dharni Block, Maharashtra, focusing on nutrition, health,

ADRA India

Humanitarian relief and development arm of the Seventh-day Adventist Church in India

26 projects

AFPRO (Action for Food Production)

Socio-technical support organisation building water security, watersheds and sustainable livelihoods for rural India

200,000 villages across 256 districts in 20 states

Aga Khan Foundation (India)

Rural development catalyst working since 1978 across five Indian states on health, education, water and livelihoods

Reached 4.9 million people in 2025

Aga Khan Rural Support Programme (India)

Catalysing rural self-reliance across Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, Bihar and Maharashtra

7,00,000 households reached

Akhil Bharatiya Samaj Sewa Sansthan

Land rights, water conservation and education for Kol tribals in Bundelkhand.

By the end of 1997, 2,500 poor Kol families of Mau and Manikpur had acquired possession of 10,000 acres of lan

Ambuja Foundation

Rural prosperity through water, farms and skills

6.73 million people reached

Andhra Pradesh Voluntary Health Association (APVHA)

State federation of grassroots health NGOs registered in Guntur since 1972

In 2023-24 the Andhra Pradesh Voluntary Health Association reached over 1,300 students across 15 schools throu

Arghyam

Shaping safe, sustainable groundwater and drinking-water systems across India

11.7 million people reached

AROEHAN (Action Related to the Organization of Education, Health and Nutrition)

Tribal development organisation working on nutrition, water and livelihoods in Palghar district.

Working with 150+ gram panchayats reaching out to approx. 700000 population

ASSIST

Community-led rural development — water, health, women's groups — in Andhra Pradesh/Telangana since 1985

533 bicycles distributed to high school students walking 2-5 km daily to school in 2024-25

Bal Utsav

Reimagining government schools

1,000,000+ students benefitted (progress and outcomes as of Q1 2025)

Bala Vikasa

Community-contribution model for safe water and village development in south-central India

Programmes have impacted over 10 million rural poor in more than 7,000 villages across 8 south-central states

Bharat Clean Rivers Foundation

Restoring India's rivers, lakes and wetlands from plastic pollution

60,000 parents involved and 30,000 students engaged through the Clean Water Challenge 2025

Bharatiya Jain Sanghatana

Water body rejuvenation and disaster response at scale

44,67,956 students benefited from the Mulyavardhan programme

Bhartiya Jan Utthan Parishad

Social welfare for disadvantaged communities in Bihar and Jharkhand

18,409 households reached across 160 villages

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (India)

Grantmaker for health, sanitation and financial inclusion

Works with 30 million smallholder farmers across India, especially women, on climate-smart agricultural innova

Citizens Association for Child Rights (CACR)

Hygiene, nutrition and behaviour-change programmes inside Mumbai's municipal schools

62,318 reached through Personal Hygiene Programs (up to 2020)

Citizens Foundation

Making people self-reliant

Touched the lives of over a million people through inclusive and participatory programs

Coca-Cola India Foundation (Anandana)

Water replenishment and community grants across India

Development Support Centre (DSC)

Knowledge and technical support for participatory water resource and watershed management across Gujarat

Reached more than 1.45 lakh households across 1,061 villages in Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra and Rajas

DHAN Foundation

Grassroots development organisation building community institutions for water, farming and microfinance.

58,76,912 families reached across 33,000+ villages in 16 states (REACH at a Glance, as on 31 Mar 2025)

Dhara Sansthan

Integrates health, education and water access for rural communities in drought-prone western Rajasthan since 1989

Dilasa Sanstha

Reviving phad diversion irrigation for smallholder farmers in Vidarbha

Reached 59,000 beneficiaries across 845 villages in Maharashtra

Eleutheros Christian Society

For the Lost, the Last and the Least

300+ villages covered

Environmentalist Foundation of India (E.F.I)

Volunteer-driven scientific restoration of India's lakes, ponds and wildlife habitats

Operates across 18 Indian states

Exnora International

Community-driven civic action for waste management, clean water bodies and urban greening since 1989

300,000 trees planted (data for the past three years)

Garbage Free India

Kolkata environment group diverting waste from landfills through awareness and clean-up drives

4,30,138 kg Total Waste Diverted from Landfills

Girganga Parivar Trust

Building a water-secure future for drought-prone rural Gujarat

19,592+ water structures built (check dams, borewell recharge structures and percolation pits)

GMR Varalakshmi Foundation

The CSR engine of the GMR Group

4+ million lives positively impacted (FY 2025-26)

Gram Chetna Kendra

Empowers rural Rajasthan through water, health, education and livelihood programmes since 1986.

Reach has grown from one village to 791 villages across 11 districts in Rajasthan

Gram Vikas

Rural communities leading their own water, sanitation and habitat work

600,000 people reached in 1,700 villages

Gramalaya

Building toilets and safe water access across rural Tamil Nadu

6,000,000+ lives impacted

Gramya Vikash Mancha

Rural development, safe water and women's livelihoods work in Assam.

Under the Holistic Rural Development Programme, Gramya Vikash Mancha distributed 1,500 coconut saplings to 250

GRAVIS (Gramin Vikas Vigyan Samiti)

Water security and livelihoods for Rajasthan's Thar Desert communities

2.7 million+ people reached

Green Communities Foundation

Sets up waste segregation and management systems for urban and rural communities.

6,000+ Tonnes of dry waste diverted from landfills

Green Yatra Trust

Large-scale ecological restoration — urban forests, water bodies and mangroves

42+ lakh trees planted, with a 90%+ survival rate

Gujarat Rajya Gram Vikas Samiti (GRGVS)

Rural development and shelters for the urban homeless across Gujarat, since 1988

5,00,000+ underserved rural community members benefitted

Haritika

Reviving water, land and forests across drought-hit Bundelkhand

2 lakh households benefitted from livelihood-based interventions

Healing Himalayas Foundation

Clearing and managing waste across the Himalayan states, with mountain-ready recovery facilities

1,000+ cleanup drives, with volunteers trekking 10,000+ km

Health Education Adoption Rehabilitation Development Society (HEARDS)

Chittoor-based society tackling child labour, WASH, health and livelihoods across Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu

2000 Children benefited through our initiatives

Hinduja Foundation

Healthcare, education, water and culture since 1968

Helping 1,000+ children with Type 1 diabetes thrive

Hindustan Unilever Foundation

Water conservation at national scale

Water conservation programmes have reached more than 19,000 villages across 14 states and 2 union territories

INHERE (Institute of Himalayan Environmental Research and Education)

Grassroots Himalayan development across agriculture, health and water since 1982

84 village-level meetings held across 20 villages in 3 Uttarakhand districts (Almora, Chamoli, Bageshwar) in 2

INREM Foundation

Works at the intersection of water, climate and public health to build water-safe communities

With a collective effort, we’ve had the opportunity to create meaningful impact across 11 districts in 7 state

Integrated Development Foundation (IDF)

Rural health, livelihood and child protection across Bihar and Jharkhand

6,786 beneficiaries from deprived communities benefited in FY2024-25, including 3,921 Scheduled Caste and 2,64

Jal Bhagirathi Foundation

Reviving traditional water-harvesting structures across the Thar Desert since 2002

550,000+ beneficiaries with water security and sanitation

Jeevan Rekha Parishad

Community empowerment and human rights organisation working across Odisha.

Jeevitnadi - Living River Foundation

Pune citizens' foundation restoring the Mula, Mutha and Ram rivers stretch by stretch.

JSW Foundation

The JSW Group's social development arm

2+ million lives impacted across India

Kalike

Bengaluru-based Tata Trusts associate working on early childhood, education, water and livelihoods in three states

Kalike currently works across Karnataka, Tamil Nadu and Meghalaya, impacting more than 8,00,000 (800,000) peop

Kamalnayan Jamnalal Bajaj Foundation

Self-reliant villages through water and farming

1,27,000 farming families benefitted

Kovai Kulangal Padhukappu Amaippu

Every Sunday, Coimbatore's volunteers bring their lakes back to life

30,800+ volunteers joined across 310+ volunteer weeks

Lok Prerna

Deoghar NGO delivering health, water, sanitation and livelihood programmes across Santhal Pargana since 1992

Ensured toilet construction for 15,681 households, benefiting 47,043 persons.

Mahila Housing Trust (MHT)

Women-led habitat improvement and climate resilience in India's urban slums

2,74,911 households benefited from water management

Manbhum Ananda Ashram Nityananda Trust (MANT)

Works since 1960 on public health, education and tribal development in eastern India.

More than 3,000 students have been studying at its schools in Purulia

Manthan Adhyayan Kendra

Independent research and analysis on India's water and energy policy

Manthan Sanstha

Community organisation in rural Ajmer district working on education, water and health.

Marathwada Gramin Vikas Sanstha

Accredited rural-development NGO in Aurangabad running child protection, health and watershed programmes

20K farmers reached

Modern Architects for Rural India (MARI)

Community-driven rural development across Telangana and Andhra Pradesh

40,000+ lives impacted

N. M. Sadguru Water and Development Foundation

Water resource management and natural resource development for tribal communities in Gujarat

9.25 lakh acres and 6.83 lakh households covered under improved farming practices

Navachaithanya Urban & Rural Development Society (NRDS)

Builds school toilets, plants saplings and runs rural development work in Chikkaballapur.

Navya Disha

Runs youth livelihood, WASH and sustainable-agriculture programmes from Bengaluru

4 million lives touched

Nisarga (Franciscan Sisters of Mary)

FMM Sisters' trust running watershed, water-supply and rural livelihood projects.

We reached out to 1,318 families when we formed 75 groups for them.

North East Affected Area Development Society (NEADS)

Grassroots disaster response and livelihoods organisation in Upper Assam

NEADS's Community Development Programme at Sadiya (2007-2017) reached 28 villages, 584 girls, 400 boys and 283

North East Initiative Development Agency (NEIDA)

Tata Trusts-promoted nodal agency for rural livelihoods, water and sports development across the Northeast

NYDHEE

Bhubaneswar NGO for livelihoods of ultra-poor women, WASH and disaster response

Organisation for Management and Development Centre (OMDC)

Scholarships, digital skills, WASH and women’s empowerment programmes in Odisha.

Paani Foundation

Aamir Khan's foundation fighting drought in rural Maharashtra

5 million people impacted through water conservation and sustainable farming

Parmarth Samaj Sevi Sansthan

Water conservation and village development across the Bundelkhand region.

Developed a cadre of 1086 Jal Saheli

People's Science Institute (PSI)

Natural resource management and disaster mitigation research group in Dehradun

PHIA Foundation

Works with migrant workers and tribal communities on rights, livelihoods and WASH

PRAVAH

Sustainable farming, livelihood, WASH and gender programmes across Jharkhand villages

PSI India

Market-based public health solutions for underserved communities since 1988

1.5 million family planning clients benefitted

Raah Foundation

Water security, agroecology and ecological restoration in the Western Ghats

Reciprocity Foundation

Chennai collective running beach clean-ups, water projects and child health drives.

Rotary Foundation (India)

Rotary's service programmes in India

Over the last ten years, RF(I) has supported 3375+ Service projects implemented by Rotary members worth 1.5 bi

Rural Communes

Watershed development and sustainable agriculture across the Western Ghats and coastal Maharashtra.

Rural Communes' NABARD-supported watershed development programme covered 1,780 hectares across 5 revenue villa

S M Sehgal Foundation

Strengthening community-led rural development across water, agriculture and education since 1999

407 villages covered under the Water Management programme

Sabuj Sangha

Health, education, livelihoods and disaster response across the Sundarbans

District-level stakeholders workshop organized with 100 Digital Sakhis in Murshidabad District, WB

Safai Karmachari Andolan (SKA)

A national movement to eradicate manual scavenging and rehabilitate safai karmacharis

6,350 volunteers

Sahbhagi Shikshan Kendra (SSK)

Participatory training for civil society and youth across Uttar Pradesh

75,408 individuals reached through Sahbhagi Shikshan Kendra's programmes in 2022-23

SAKHI

Women's self-help groups and fisheries livelihoods in north Bihar.

1,000+ SHGs

Samarthan - Centre for Development Support

Strengthening local governance and rural development across Madhya Pradesh

2,000+ farmers strengthened

Samerth Charitable Trust

Education, health and water security across Gujarat and Chhattisgarh

28+ years of experience

Sanitation First India

WASH nonprofit building sanitation and dignity for schools and communities

Sankalpa Rural Development Society (SRDS)

Recharges borewells and builds rainwater harvesting across rural Karnataka

Shelter Associates

Data-driven sanitation and housing solutions for the urban poor

More than 28,000 toilets facilitated, improving conditions for more than 2 lakh individuals

Shivganga Samagra Gramvikas Parishad

Tribal-led water conservation and rural development in the Bhil belt of Jhabua.

900 VILLAGES

Shohratgarh Environmental Society (SES)

Grassroots NGO tackling water, agriculture and disaster issues in eastern Uttar Pradesh since 1985

60,000+ Lives Impacted Directly - number of people directly empowered through community interventions

Shram Jivi Sewa Samiti

Allahabad-based samiti working on water, environment, culture and education

In the last thirty years, Shram Jivi Sewa Samiti has positively transformed the lives of more than two lakh pe

Shri Vivekanand Research and Training Institute (VRTI)

Water, agriculture and rural craft across 300 villages of drought-prone Kachchh

Programme execution area spanning 300 odd villages of Kachchh district, Gujarat

Siruthuli

Coimbatore trust reviving the Noyyal river, waterbodies and green cover since the early 2000s drought.

Has planted 10 lakh+ trees through 190+ plantation drives in Coimbatore.

Smile Always Foundation

Runs child care, clean water, women's training and emergency relief programmes from Hyderabad

200,000+ lives empowered across India

SPARC (Society for the Promotion of Area Resource Centres)

Slum communities building their own housing, sanitation and infrastructure

6,837 housing units constructed

Sri Sathya Sai Annapoorna Trust

Serving morning nutrition to school children across India

10 Million + children served every morning

Sri Sathya Sai Central Trust

Love all, serve all — free education, healthcare and water

51.30 lakh OPD visits handled free of cost at Sri Sathya Sai hospitals, since inception

SRIJAN (Self-Reliant Initiatives through Joint Action)

Reviving water bodies and rural livelihoods across central India

5,01,799 rural families reached to become self-reliant

Sulabh International

Sanitation, dignity and the end of manual scavenging

Over 20 million people use Sulabh facilities every single day

Swades Foundation

Community-driven rural transformation, one million lives at a time

1.19 Mn people reached and 668K lives impacted

Swasti Health Catalyst

Bengaluru public health nonprofit advancing everyday wellbeing for marginalised and vulnerable communities

Swasti's Invest for Wellness model, started in 2017, operates in nine locations across India and covers 56,165

Tarun Bharat Sangh

Rajendra Singh's 'Waterman of India' movement that revived 13 rivers through johads

100 billion litres of water conserved every year

Technology Informatics Design Endeavour (TIDE)

Clean energy, water management and livelihoods through appropriate technology

236,252 people impacted

Transform Rural India Foundation

Tata Trusts-backed foundation driving village-level poverty reduction across India's poorest districts

Engaged across 8 states, 42 districts, 165 blocks, 2,405 Gram Panchayats and 20,399 villages

Uttar Pradesh Voluntary Health Association (UPVHA)

Lucknow-headquartered state health network implementing community health and rural development programmes since 1985

Under its Targeted Intervention project in Ambedkar Nagar, UPVHA works with 300 female sex workers to protect

Utthan

Community-led water security and women's organising in rural Gujarat

120,000 households have been provided with clean drinking water through Utthan's water and sanitation work in

Vicharta Samuday Samarthan Manch (VSSM)

Identity and dignity for nomadic and de-notified communities

At present, VSSM has a strong presence in all 26 districts of Gujarat, and from Financial Year 2025-26 is expa

Vijayavahini Charitable Foundation

Tata Trusts-supported foundation empowering rural and tribal households in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana

Completed 31 water supply schemes providing safe drinking water to 18,551 households under the Jal Jeevan Miss

Voluntary Health Association of Sikkim

Making health a reality for the people of Sikkim

Through its Health on Wheels (HoW) project, implemented from July 2016 with support from Inclusive India Found

WASH Institute

Building India's capacity for urban and rural sanitation and water management

4M people across 8,000 villages have access to wastewater treatment

Water For People India Trust

Building lasting drinking-water and sanitation access in Odisha and beyond since 2008

45,000 individual household latrines constructed

WaterAid India

Indian arm of the global WaterAid federation delivering safe water, sanitation and hygiene programs since 1986

Watershed Organisation Trust

Watershed development and climate resilience for rural India

6.93 million people reached across 7,124 villages

Watershed Support Services and Activities Network (WASSAN)

Strengthening natural resource management and farmer livelihoods in drought-prone India

Intensive work across four states (Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Odisha and Jharkhand); engaged in 7 states throu

Wockhardt Foundation

Free mobile medical clinics for rural and slum India

211 mobile medical vans have checked 510.81 lakh+ patients with free medicines

Yuva Unstoppable

Transforming government schools at scale

10 M+ lives impacted