Starting Pure Water Business in Nigeria
Pure water business in Nigeria is one which has always had and still in high demand.
The rate at which this sachet is taken every day is over hundreds of millions and its demand of supply is always on the rise as the population of the inhabitants keeps increasing. If you’ve been to any major city in this Nigeria, you would witness how streets are littered with a used sachet of pure water which seems to testify to the much massive quantity that is consumed every day.
One who is smart in business knows that any product which is of high demand at the moment is the best to invest in. Its demand doesn’t seem to decrease as it has become the most plausible alternative means of a clean drinkable water for an average Nigerian.



Basic Requirements in Starting a Pure Water Business
In this article, you would have the opportunity to know easy and straightforward you can set up your pure water business and you start earning.
But one thing needs to be put in place which is the priority of every business; it’s no other thing that service to humanity, then results automatically flow in. The estimated list below deals with the Medium Scale pure water production but the scheme can be applied to both small and large-scale form of the business too depending on your plan.

1. Prepare Your Business Plan: A Business plan is a written document that includes the details of your business startup, operational objectives, and strategies.


For every business that is to come up, a business plan must be put in place if one desires the success of it or else the vision wouldn’t be achieved. A good and well prepared plan should consist of Market Research, Cost Analysis, Marketing and Management.
You could visit Google to download or rather hire a professional consultant to help out.
If you have a well prepared business plan, it can be used to obtain loans from a bank, secure investors and also for other analytical purposes. As the business matures, it could be modified to guide for future operations.

2. Get Land: The size of the land to be purchased solely depends on the scale of the business.
If it’s a small scale production plant, a plot would be enough. But for that of a medium scale, you would be needing at least a plot and a half for the plant. Another thing to be considered while planning to get your land is the area to be used for the production; the neatness and also cost of land.
It must be a well befitting place as it would be used in the production of what people consume every day and the price of it must be affordable. For example, using Lagos as a case study, land in Ikorodu and Epe cost from N500k – N3M. Source

3. Construction of the Plant: In building the plant, a bungalow is preferable as there is no need to have a storey building because it is of no use.
Constructing a bungalow that would serve as the factory together with its furnishing, depending on the size would range from N5 – N10 million Naira.

4. Distillation System: Unlike other methods of water treatment such as carbon filters and reverse osmosis, distillation system is effective on almost all contaminants (bacteria, viruses, organic and inorganic chemicals, heavy metals, volatile gases, cysts and other contaminants) and they are not dependent on water pressure, water temperature, pH or Chlorine and also can be used on water containing parasites and bacteria, still producing about 99% of pure water.
Distillation is the single most effective method of purifying water for pure water production and all other types of water that may be produced.


Distilled water is known as the water that has been to a point known as the boiling point so that impurities can be separated from it, which later becomes vapor or steam and it is condensed back into pure liquid form. It contains virtually no solids, minerals or trace elements. Distilled water is clean, natural and healthy.
The various mode of purification of water which are the Reverse Osmosis, Ultra Violet Light Filtration, and Distillation.
The reverse osmosis is one of the most widely used and easier to install and it produces water with the highest level of purity.
Ultra violet is widely used in Nigeria, cheap but not that effective. You should be able to choose the best based on effectiveness (its function and cost).