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Water ATM (prepaid RFID/NFC card dispenser)
Practices that use it
Piramal Sarvajal solar water ATMs (franchise safe drinking water)A social enterprise that installs water ATMs: solar-powered, cloud-connected purified water dispensing machines operated by a local entrepreneur under a franchise model. Users pay with a prepaid RFID card. An IoT device (Soochak) monitors quality, liters and machine health in real time. It operates hundreds of plants in rural and urban areas across several states.Maji Milele prepaid water ATMs (Kenia)A system of prepaid water meters and water ATMs deployed with water service providers (WSPs) and community water points in Kenya. Users load credit via M-Pesa or NFC cards and the meter dispenses water by the liter, eliminating the manual fee collector and increasing revenue collection. It started in Kajiado county and today operates in more than 25 counties; in the Bubisa project (Marsabit) the water point's daily revenue grew by more than 520%. Maji Milele is the Kenyan operation of Water Forever International (Netherlands).