How to Fetch good cash from a purified water bowser

Hello folks, there is a new cash-cow in town and it is known as the purified water bowser. It works like a traditional blue water bowser which deliver water to apartments when municipal water cease to flow. Well this is not exactly a new idea here in Kenya because several companies are already offering it but according to our research there is still a lot of potential in this emerging opportunity waiting to be fully realized.

With so many upcoming estates in our urban centers and with meagre or no availability of clean purified drinking water, there is absolutely no reason why you should not be fetching some profits from this opportunity. Here’s how you can get started.

Step One: Find A Good Location

The secret to success in this business lies in achieving a large volume of sales per day. You therefore should locate your business in an area that is adequately populated. In as much this business is mobile, location in highly populated areas is an advantage first because , high population brings about high consumption and secondly its bring about scarcity in the trade.

Step Two: Choose A Good Purifier water machine

Choose a machine that does not strain your budget and one that has enough capacity to sustain your customers’ demand. You can start small with Reverse osmosis 500l/h litre machine and then graduate to a bigger upto 5000 litre  per hr machine as demand rises.

As for purchasing the machine you can either buy one locally from local manufacturers like PHYNETECH OR AQUATECH  or import directly from INDIA OR ITALY OR CHINA. Locally manufactured machines are cheaper…and as you know, it’s a good idea to BUY KENYAN, BUILD KENYA. Here are some tip that will come in handy in your search for a good water purifier.

*Ensure you perform analysis on the raw water so as to design to the best machine according to the water,

*Buy one with Reverse osmosis- this system gives consistent water taste regardless of the feed water.

* secondly, reverse osmosis machines filters out dirt, removes undesired salts, kills bacteria and enhances water taste.

*If importing, consider buying the machine in separate parts to be assembled locally. That will help you save on tax.

*Generally, look for a machine that is easy to use. Preferably one whose technology can be understood even by kids.

*Look for a machine whose spare parts are readily available locally and insist on warranty cover on all your purchases.

Step Three: Arrange for purified water supply

Yes your business will be located in the urban centers but in order to get quality and consistent water supplies you will need to link up with suppliers. As part of your planning, take time to visit the surrounding water suppliers who already have installed reverse osmosis machines before you settle for the most feasible source.

Don’t take chances. Ask for the water analysis or just take a sample of the water to the lab for analysis.

*Look for high quality water borehole or municipal that has been treated ultimately by reverse osmosis.

Hint 1. Churches such as ACK have a large capacity boreholes and they have installed big water purifiers , consequently , they have a lot of purified water for sale to water bowser and a very reasonable price.eg in ruai

Hint 2: NGO’S such as Water fund have invested in high capacity borehole and large purifiers as part of humanitarian intiative providing water to locals at a fee and selling to water bowsers in order to meet running cost eg. In Kibera

 

Step Four: Get Licensed

You will need KEBS licence for yourself or from your water supplier to acertain the water quality being supplied meets all health and food handling regulations.

HINT: This licence is intercounty and therefore areas their proximity to the city (Examples: Ongata Rongai (Kajiado), Syokimau (Machakos), Githurai 45 (Kiambu), Kahawa Sukari(Kiambu), Kahawa Wendani (Kiambu), Ruaka (Kiambu), Mlolongo (Machakos), Kitengela (Kajiado)) it will work best. In some cases transport licence may be required which ranges from 5k to 11k in pass different and offload good in different counties.

How Much To Spend As You Start (Estimates)

Truck (second hand well maintanined)= 1,200,000

Stainless steel tank capacity 5200LITRES =650,000

Purchasing purified water (per trip) =0.5×5000=2500

Fuel for a day = 4000

 

MINIMUM STARTING BUDGET = 1,900,000

As your business grows, you can invest in a own purifier so that you can control your own quality.

Profit Potential (Estimates)

A well established water bowser business can sell 5 trips per day. This is because there are is  escalating demand for purified drinking water, numerous refill stations and all over the people have appreciated the need to drink purified water. So provided your water  is quality and your customer service is on point, there is no reason as to why you should not sell more than 3 trips a day.

There is even more potential if you partner with some client and brand the shop for them as a promissory note to buy  your purified water.

Okey…let’s stop day dreaming and stick to the 2 trips daily  for purposes of calculations.

The wholesale price water for vending shops is  2sh per LITRE

expenditure	cost		SALES	INCOME
1.fuel	4000		2 TRIPS X10,000	20,000
2.wages	1500
3.purified water	5000
TOTAL EXP	11,500
		PROFITS= (20,000-11,5000)= 8,500

 

*MINIMUM PROFIT Per Month = Ksh221,000 (Per lorry)

Going by this rule, you will need just 8 months to recoup your initial investment.

Final Word

Wellness begins with purified water. In our homes, industries and communities purified water ensures clean, safe and refreshing solutions. It unlocks the best in every drop and allow hydration at its purest form.

All water borne diseases, h-yproli and other gut related diseases have reduced greatly at the onset of this water purification idea

Armed with  this facts, numerous water vending shops have mushroomed in every corner of the city to ensure purified water is at your doo step both affordable and efficiently.

And remember water being such a basic product, you don’t have to struggle to get customers. Isn’t that something worth pondering upon?