Three years ago the Ladakh Autonomous Hill Development Council(LAHDC) Leh proposed to impose a complete ban on mineral water bottles to reduce its environmental impact on Ladakh’s fragile ecosystem as plastic bottles heavily contribute to the solid waste.  The initiative was also meant to provide employment opportunities to the unemployed youths by establishing safe drinking water filling stations of their own. Despite LAHDC’s best intention, the decision later had to be reconsidered as an alternative was not easily available then. Amrutdhara could perhaps become one of the solutions to such initiatives which can gradually be expanded to the entire country in a phase manner.