C-LeaP · Citizens Leadership in Policy

Our Mission

A small step by a household is a giant leap for society.

C-LeaP is a collective citizen movement built on the principle of adaptive leadership, where there is no single leader, guide, or preacher, only citizens solving shared problems together.

Our mission is to empower households to take the lead on everyday sustainability challenges in water, energy, pollution, waste, and traffic, and to turn those small, practical actions into lasting change for our communities and the policies that shape them.

Every RO water filter quietly drains away litres of reject water each day. Tell us how your household uses water and help C-LeaP digitalize and expand the movement to save it.

20,000+borewells have dried up in Hyderabad

Lakhsof water tankers booked every month

Millionsof litres can be saved, one kitchen at a time

Citizens already saving water

Simple setups at home turn RO reject water into water for dishes, floors and plants.

A bucket placed under the RO filter drain pipe in a kitchen — A bucket under the RO drain pipe: a mini dam in the kitchen

Saved RO reject water being poured to wash utensils at the sink — Washing utensils with saved RO reject water

A woman mopping the kitchen floor with water from an orange bucket — Mopping floors with collected reject water

A grandfather and granddaughter watering balcony plants with saved water — Watering plants together, every drop reused

A volunteer showing residents an RO reject water collection drum — A community session on setting up a collection drum

Work in progress

The work is in progress

We are building something new for the C-LeaP community. This page is being developed, and more details will be shared here soon.