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2 Chennai Engineers Helped 130+ Buildings Save 5 Billion Litres of Water by Spotting Hidden Leaks
Turn on a tap to wash your hands. Notice how much water hits your palms, bounces off and disappears down the drain. Now imagine this happening hundreds of times a day across an office building, alongside hidden leaks and cooling systems that use millions of litres of water. How much of it is actually being used, and how much is simply going to waste? Chennai-based, IIT Madras-incubated startup EarthFokus is trying to answer that question. Founded in 2019 by Arun Subramanian and Rishi Vandan, the water-tech company helps commercial buildings monitor consumption, identify leaks, recover water lost through evaporation and reduce everyday usage. Its three solutions, WaterOS, EcoVapure and WaterFokus, tackle different parts of the problem. Together, the company says, they have helped over 130 commercial buildings save more than five billion litres of water. It began with a tap EarthFokus started with a small experiment. In 2019, Arun, an engineer, was approached by a neighbour who wanted to explore ways to reduce water consumption in their garden. Around the same time, Chennai was facing its Day Zero water crisis, when the city's reservoirs ran critically low. The crisis brought home the importance of conserving water, but Arun began by...
