Our Story
To date we have nearly 4000 satisfied customers across 9 states of India
Answer to Problem
July 2012
The first Tiger Toilet prototype is built and operated in the UK at the Centre for Alternative Technology (a collaboration with Imperial College London as part of the Sanitation Ventures project. The project was put into motion thanks to a grant to LSHTM from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation)
Commercial Prototype
January 2014
The first field prototypes are constructed for household use in India, Uganda and Myanmar. The project is executed by a collaboration of PriMove Infrastructure Development Consultants, Oxfam and Water for People. USAID Development Innovation Ventures provides a grant to BVV).
The Commercial Pilot
September 2015
A commercial pilot gets underway in rural India, thanks to a grant from Grand Challenges Canada.
The Transformation
January 2016
A joint venture between BVV, PriMove and Institute for Transformative Technologies gets underway to help scale the Tiger Toilet.
To Next Milestone
September 2018
Over 4000 Tiger Toilets have now been sold and installed, mainly in India
To Next Milestone
September 2018
Over 4000 Tiger Toilets have now been sold and installed, mainly in India
The Tiger Toilet was first developed through the Sanitation Ventures project at The London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. The first working prototype was built in 2012 in the UK at the Centre for Alternative Technology.
Subsequently, with funding support from USAID, field testing was carried out in India, Uganda and Myanmar, in a partnership between Bear Valley Ventures and PriMove, Water for People, and Oxfam respectively.
Starting in 2014, a commercial prototype was developed and deployed in villages near Pune, Maharashtra, India (collaboration with PriMove Infrastructure Development Consultants, Oxfam and Water for People), through a grant from Grand Challenges Canada. About 500 units were sold and installed in 2014, the first year of sales.
In September 2015, a commercial pilot got underway in rural India in collaboration with PriMove Infrastructure Development Consultants.