Growing a Water-Reuse Startup in Bengaluru with Vikas Brahmavar

Bengaluru needs more water, but one of its closest available sources is often ignored: used water. In this episode of  The WELL Labs Show, Vikas Brahmavar, Founder and CEO of Boson Whitewater, joins host Pavan Srinath to unpack how they are treating wastewater to a high quality and selling it as reliable water for industries, IT parks, malls and corporate campuses.

Vikas explains how Boson Whitewater takes treated wastewater from apartment sewage treatment plants and government STPs, further purifies it through multiple stages, and supplies it for industrial and commercial uses such as cooling towers, laundries, construction, boilers, electroplating and other applications.

The conversation explores what it actually takes to make reclaimed water usable at scale. Vikas breaks down the treatment process — from STP-treated water to advanced filtration, membrane treatment, UV, ozonation, sensors, dashboards and water quality slips — and explains how Boson brings the water close to drinking-water standards before supplying it to customers.

The episode also goes beyond technology. Vikas shares the business and operational challenges of building a water reuse startup: working with apartment associations, dealing with changing resident welfare committees, partnering with tanker operators, building trust with industries, overcoming the psychological barrier around reused water, and making the economics work for both suppliers and buyers.

Boson Whitewater has already helped reuse over 1.12 billion litres of water that would otherwise have gone into drains and lakes, while also reducing demand for fresh groundwater and tanker water. Vikas also discusses how the model can scale across Bengaluru, Chennai, Hyderabad, Pune and other Indian cities.

Vikas Brahmavar is the Founder and CEO of Boson Whitewater, a Bengaluru-based company working on advanced wastewater treatment and water reuse. Boson treats STP-treated wastewater to high-quality standards and supplies reclaimed water for industrial, commercial and corporate use.

Pavan Srinath is the Managing Partner for Communications and Development at WELL Labs. Pavan is a communications and public policy professional who has spent over 14 years working in Bangalore’s not-for-profit sector.

Resources:

1. Vikas Brahmavar: LinkedIn
2. Pavan Srinath: LinkedIn | WELL Labs Website
3. Boson Whitewater: Website | LinkedIn
4. Introducing Boson Whitewater – Z-Connect by Zerodha
5. Boson Whitewater and BWSSB Launch Pilot to Supply 70,000 Litres of Recycled Water Daily in Bengaluru
6. Water reuse: Panacea for parching cities
7. Urban Water Programme | WELL Labs
8. Bengaluru’s Wastewater Experiment
9. Bengaluru Has the Highest Number of Decentralised Sewage Treatment Plants Globally. Are They Effective?
10. Explainer | How Can We Solve Bengaluru’s Water Crisis?
11. Catalysing Reliable Decentralised Water Reuse in Bengaluru
12. Bengaluru Urban Water Balance Report
13. Wastewater Conference: Turning Bengaluru into the ‘Silicon Valley for Water Innovation’ – WELL LABS
14. Promoting Wastewater Reuse & Incentives for Water Conservation

The WELL Labs Show features rich conversations on water, environment, land and livelihoods, from the people and partners of WELL Labs. Hosted by Pavan Srinath, each episode explores complex environmental and social issues and helps you understand systems and dynamics better.

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