MADHUSUDANKATI, India, April 16, 2015 (AFP) - Charity workers have teamed with an impoverished village in eastern India to develop what they say is the world’s cheapest bottle of drinking water -- costing less than one US cent.
After years of suffering illnesses from drinking polluted ground water, residents of Madusudankati are now receiving clean bottled supplies thanks to a new purification plant. "I saw a ray of hope when I heard that a water purifying plant would be installed in our village," local farmer Pralay Mallick said. "I thought that our children would be safe."