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Recognition and Awards
- We gratefully acknowledge the support of ICICI Foundation, whose grant has contributed to the upgradation of Watsan's manufacturing facilities.
- OPOP hero awards for providing natural water purifiers - by earthday.org – July 2026
- Jury for Junior Stockholm Prize for Water 2026 - at IIT Madras.
- Real men of steel a calendar and diary for 2026 published featuring Chandrasekaran J – for his service of reaching out to millions of people providing them water; see link: https://photos.app.goo.gl/GjjC3zxvVS5oyq7V7
- The state BJP wing of Tamilnadu honoured 100 eminent people from different walks of life for their contribution to Viksit Bharat – The Bharat Ratna Atal award – Chandrasekaran J was one among them. – 31st December 2026
- Citation given by “The National Change Makers Network” from Tamilnadu, as one among the 51 national change makers in India chosen from 21 states, in a function held in Banas Dairy, Gujarat in September 2025.
- Vocational Excellence Award given for the year 2025 by one of the oldest Rotary Clubs in India, The Rotary Club of Chennai Patna.
- Carbon Zero Challenge Jury for past 4 years conducted by IIT Madras
- Jury for Africa Business Heroes past 3 years
- Mentor for BITS, Pilani - The Sustainability Mafia social Impact Entrepreneurs identification programme for the past 2 years
- Golden Sponsor CSIR-IMMT Science for Sustainability Conference Bhubaneswar March 2025
- Bharat Nature tech award from CSR Box October 2024, India
- Global LIF Innovator of the Year Award – Inaugural Award – July 2024 by the Royal Academy of Engineering, London.
- Circle FC Water Challenge National Winner – February 2024
- Community Grant UK £10,000 for implementing aqua for all projects for the marginal inhabitants in Amazon Forest close to Lima, Peru with 2 additional LIF alumni in Peru – February 2024.
- Pune International Centre – Top 20 Social Enterprises for the year 2023
- Emerging Leap to Unicorn – Forbes November 2023 Magazine - Listed in this elite Top 100 companies in India to have potential to become Unicorns.
- ASME- I SHOW – India winner 2023
- Economic Times MSME award for best innovative micro unit - 2023
- AGEIS Graham Bell Finalist – Innovation for climate resilience -2023
- AKAMAI grant and award for 52,00,000 lakhs INR for working on textile dye alleviation from water - 2022
- ARE – Shell game changer award -2022 for 50,000 US$
- Best engineer award with environmental solutions (for building toilets from glass fibre waste) by Indian Newspaper “ Hindu Tamil Thisai “ and RAMCO (an MNC making cement) – 2022
- TEDx speaker - 13th Nov 2021. TISS Sustainability Global award by TiE Global and TiE Hyderabad -2021
- National, Regional (Asia) winner in Climate Launch Pad and finalist in Global CLP pitch -2021
- KAAJ Sustainability Impact Winner – conducted by Indian Silicon Valley entrepreneurs- 2021
- CSIR award for rural entrepreneurship for 2018- awarded in Sep 2020 by Govt of India, Department of Science & Technology
- TEDx Speaker in the Inaugural TED talks at IIM Trichy -11-01-2020
- Waterpreneur Award 1 prize by FICCI 2018
- CII (Confederation of Indian Industry) Best Innovation startup 2017
- Millennium Alliance Grant from FICCI and USAID 2015
- Fellow of ROYAL ACADEMY OF ENGINEERING – RAE, LONDON 2016
- Gold medal winner of India International Innovation Fair 2016, Bengaluru as representatives of GCIP-UNIDO Clean-tech Program Finalists.
- All India Runner up in Ennovent sanitation Accelerator Programme – 2016
- Finalist in Lufthansa runway to success wild card entry
- Finalist in Lufthansa Finalist in Global Clean tech Programme by GCIP and UNIDO - 2016runway to success wild card entry
- 2 nd prize winner in National Clean tech Competition conducted by Cleancubator, Chennai – May 2016
- National Award for converting Glass Fibre Waste into toilets – 2016.
- Power of Ideas- Economic Times –CIIE-IIM Ahmadabad- Grant Winner – 2016
- Fellow of Royal Academy of Engineering (RAE), London, U.K - Leadership Innovator Programme – attendee among 15 Indians in March 2016- Research in removal of textile dye from water affluent using Clean tech methods- in collaboration with Open University, UK and PSG College of Science and Technology, India-2016-2019.
- First Prize for creating the instant Oxygen making machine prototype O2meter and third prize for designing a female contraceptive in Jugaad-a-thon 2015 conducted by CAMTECH India 2015
- Semi-finalist in the SCA challenge conducted in Asian Level by DBS Bank and NUS (University of Singapore) in 2014, last 8 among 200 entries on Social Entrepreneurship.
- FORCE- PARK Shared Value Award for 2014 - innovation for BoP, in memory of Shri C.K.Prahlad
- Nomination for the Chinni Krishnan Awards by Kevin Care for Innovation for years 2012, 2013, 2017.
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