DWAS · Defensible Water Accounting System
A managed service delivering a signed, audit-ready monthly Water Statement —
built from ISO 4064, ISO 17025 & OIML R49 measurements, reconciled to the litre, by the 7th.
Kritsnam · Trusted by 2,000+ enterprise facilities
Active facilities
Deployed across India · since 2015
Unaccounted water SLA — in writing
Data uptime — contractual
The moment of truth
to produce these six things. The clock starts the moment the auditor sits down.
The auditor asks your team to
For most plants, this is the moment they discover their water accounting was never defensible. The net is widening: BRSR Core now mandates financial-grade assurance on water data for India's top 1,000 listed companies by FY26–27 — the identical standard applied to your financial accounts. DWAS prepares all six — extraction history, calibration, balance gaps, signed statements, ownership and audit trail — before the auditor arrives.
The core doctrine
Every rupee a business spends is recorded, reconciled, summarised in a statement, and defended at audit.
Water remains one of the few enterprise resources consumed every day without the same discipline — leaving costs, disclosures, compliance obligations, and operational decisions dependent on numbers that are often difficult to defend.
DWAS applies the principles of accounting to water, creating a complete chain of custody from source to final discharge.
Financial accounting
Water accounting
The reality
Knowing what you paid is not the same as knowing where it went. Tick the questions you could answer with evidence — today.
The executive view
Most of a plant's water risk never appears on a line item. Move the slider to your annual water spend and watch what stays hidden.
Hidden annual cost
Unbudgeted. Invisible. Recurring.
The hidden annual cost often exceeds the cost of accounting for it. The only question is whether it stays invisible — or becomes one fixed, defensible line item.
Where you stand today
Five levels separate a water bill from a defensible account. Most enterprises stop at level two or three. Regulators and investors are moving to level five.
You know what you paid. No view of where the water actually went.
Organizations relying on utility bills and estimates
You know what you measured — but the numbers are never reconciled.
Most enterprises with meters and dashboards
Data is collected.You match sources to uses periodically. Balance gaps are understood, not hidden.
Operationally mature organizations
Signed monthly statements, ownership assigned. Numbers can be defended internally and externally.
Well-governed facilities with defined ownership
Every number signed, reconciled and audit-ready. Supporting governance, disclosures, compliance and decision-making month after month.
Industry leaders and disclosure-ready enterprises
Where regulators &What DWAS is
A dedicated Water Accountant measures, reconciles and signs your water data every month — so your team can focus on running the plant.
Kritsnam owns
Your plant team enables
How DWAS actually works
From the first site walk to a signed audit defence — every step owned, every handoff accountable. This is the whole company in one line.
Map the circuit
Measure, legal-grade
Daily · audit-grade
Continuous record
Closed by the 7th
Signs the numbers
On demand
Seven steps. One accountable owner. A number you can defend.
Monthly Water Book Closure
Built from thousands of daily Water Receipts. Reconciled. Signed. Frozen. Audit-ready, on the 7th of every month.
What it tells you, at a glance
One signed PDF. The deliverable behind every commitment we make — handed to any auditor, on demand.
Business outcomes
Every engagement begins with a discovery — a loss, risk, cost, or opportunity that previous systems never revealed.
View all case studies →Average · within 90 days
Exposed by full accounting
At a 10% measured saving
Trusted across hospitals, airports, universities, manufacturing plants and commercial campuses — 2,000+ facilities in India.
CFO · Enterprise ManufacturingI can tell you exactly what we spend on water. I cannot tell you where it went. For any other line item this size, that would be unacceptable.
Head of EHS/ESG · Listed conglomerateWhen the board asks who owns water here, the honest answer is no one. It’s split across three departments — nobody’s problem until it’s a crisis.
ESG Lead · Pharma, IndiaBRSR and ISO 46001 are closing in. If an auditor pressure-tests my water numbers today, they won’t survive the first three questions.
From the field
“Before DWAS, responding to a CGWA inspection meant three days of spreadsheet work with no guarantee we could defend the numbers. Our Water Accountant now prepares the full audit pack — calibration certificates, extraction history, signed statements — in under four hours.”
VP, Environment Health & Safety
Large-scale process manufacturing, Maharashtra
“Our plant was spending ₹3.2 crore on water annually. We had reasonable visibility — or so we thought. The DWAS assessment revealed a ₹38 lakh annual unmetered loss in our cooling circuit. DWAS paid for itself in the first six months.”
General Manager, Finance
Specialty chemicals, Gujarat
“CDP disclosure requires third-party verifiable water data. We had struggled for two years before DWAS. Within thirty days of go-live we had signed monthly statements and a continuous ledger. Our CDP score improved by a full band the following cycle.”
Head of Sustainability
FMCG, South India
A typical plant with 8–12 monitoring points goes live in 15–21 days. The process: site walk (day 1–2), meter installation and commissioning (day 3–14), first Water Receipt confirmed live (day 15). Your operations are not disrupted — we work on live pipelines with hot-tap installation where needed.
No. DWAS sits alongside your existing systems. Our meters transmit via cellular (4G dual-SIM), not your plant network — so there is no IT infrastructure dependency. The Water Ledger and Statements are delivered as signed PDFs and structured data exports, which can be fed into your ERP independently.
Your dedicated Water Accountant: reconciles all meter readings against expected balances, investigates and documents any gaps, produces signed Water Receipts and the monthly Water Statement, maintains the calibration schedule, and drafts the audit response package — all before the 7th of every month. You review and sign off; they do everything else.
Our 95% data-uptime SLA is contractual. If a meter goes offline, the Water Accountant flags it within 24 hours, documents the gap with an explanation in the Ledger, and dispatches a replacement or field engineer. Every gap is accounted for — never silently dropped. This is exactly what an auditor checks.
DWAS is priced as a monthly managed-service fee per plant — covering meter hardware, connectivity, reconciliation, the Water Statement, and your dedicated Water Accountant. Pricing scales with the number of monitoring points. We share a full itemised quote after the Water Accounting Assessment, which is conducted on a letter of intent before any contract.
Kritsnam's Water Accountant prepares and signs the audit response package on your behalf. If a finding relates to our measurement, reconciliation, or documentation — we own the response. Our contractual commitment: every number in your Water Statement is defensible, with a full audit trail from meter to signed PDF.
Your next step
We track your full water movement, identify your gaps, map your risks and show you exactly where you stand. Just on a letter-of-intent, before any contract.
You already account for every rupee.
It is time to account for every litre.
We map your water circuit and reconciliation gaps, on a letter of intent.
Your gap report and itemised costing within 5 working days.
Monthly closure begins; your dedicated Water Accountant is assigned.
Free consultation on BRSR Core reasonable assurance
Vinay Chataraju · Co-founder & CEO