The Founder
Combining technology with empathy to provide safe water solutions for rural communities.
Founder
Incoming freshman at the NYU Stern School of Business, Class of 2030
Pursuing a BS in Business with concentrations in Finance and Operations at NYU Stern, Yash's academic interests in technology, economics, and resource optimization drive his work in social impact.
He founded Adopt A Filter with a simple belief: everyone, everywhere, deserves access to clean drinking water without destroying local craft ecosystems. By integrating gravity-based filtration into traditional clay matkas, the initiative delivers safe water while sustaining the livelihoods of rural artisans.
Clean Water from Clay
One Student's Journey to Bring Clean Water to Rural India
A firsthand account of building the Adopt A Filter initiative from the ground up — from understanding rural India's water crisis and partnering with Khurja's clay artisans, to engineering a gravity-based multi-stage filtration system inside traditional matkas and distributing over 1,000 units in collaboration with Ekal Vidyalaya.
Top 100 — Samsung Solve for Tomorrow 2025
Adopt A Filter was proudly shortlisted as one of the Top 100 teams in the Samsung Solve for Tomorrow 2025 competition out of thousands of entries across India. This program recognizes innovative ideas that have the power to transform the future.
