B
NARRATIVE VALUE
Certainty
●○○ low
ABCDEFG
There is no confirmed −; independently verified + decide the position (B). No unreachable strike-through.= non-additive meter
As of: 2026-Q4Status: ActiveCeiling reason: No confirmed −
History2026-Q4BHistory grows each quarter
Yaqua: All of the profit goes to places without water. The letter is B; certainty is low. Unconfirmed concerns are placed under “Watching.” (As of 2026-Q4; estimate based on public information.)
Main narrative
Around 8 million people in Peru are said to lack safe water. In 2013 Fernando Tamayo and others set up a company to sell mineral water and put the whole of its profit into water projects. No dividends are taken.
The products are bottled water and filtration equipment, stocked in more than 1,300 points of sale, and at one point it was reported to sell around 200,000 bottles a month. The profit goes to water points and treatment projects in areas without piped supply. "Helping can be as easy as drinking water" is how the founder puts it. The buyer does nothing special; they simply buy water. And not a share of the price but the whole of the profit goes to places without water - the company is designed around that one point. On how many people have received water, however, the figures differ widely between sources - more than 1,600, 500, 250 in the first project - and no reliable total could be confirmed.
One person’s story (N1)
+ A single story
The benefit appears collectively. The company sells bottled water and filtration equipment and puts not a share of the price but the whole of the profit into water points and treatment projects in areas without piped supply. No dividends are taken. It is stocked in more than 1,300 points of sale and at one point was reported to sell around 200,000 bottles a month. The buyer does nothing special; they simply buy water. On how many people have received water, however, sources differ widely - more than 1,600, 500, 250 - and no reliable total could be confirmed. Nature of sources: independent (Peruvian trade and business media, with the figures diverging).
Source nature: Perú Retail / Infomercado / T2 industry media. Positive effects are not used to offset negatives.
Positive / negative effects
+ effects
- The positive side of this assessment rests on the single story (N1) above and its source. A per-item ledger of positive effects has not yet been compiled for this organization.T2 industry media
Watching (unconfirmed; not counted in the assessment)- Beneficiary figures differ widely between sources
- little recent independent reporting
- the single-use-container nature of the business
Looking ahead (not included in the assessment)- Expanding distribution and continuing the water projects.
A second look
The beneficiary figures differ by an order of magnitude between sources (250, 500, more than 1,600), and no material showing recent results could be found. The tension between selling single-use plastic bottles and environmental load remains, as with similar businesses. There is little recent independent reporting on whether the business is continuing as described.
Sources
+N1Perú Retail / Infomercado｜2019｜🔗
How to read this assessment
A Independently verified +, with no confirmed −
B Leans +, with independent backing
C Mixed. A confirmed − sets the ceiling, or much is unverified
D A serious confirmed − sets the ceiling
E A serious − reaches the core of the organization
F Serious and systemic, with little redeeming +
G Only extreme cases
Out of scope An entity whose core purpose is illegal
On hold Independent evidence is scarce on both + and −
- Reachable upper bound (ceiling): a confirmed − sets the ceiling, and independently verified + decide the position within it. + do not cancel out −.
- The weight of evidence is not symmetric: only confirmed − are counted; the volume of disputes or allegations goes under “Watching.” + are counted from independent evidence, while an organization’s own PR is treated as “reference.”
- Size is not value: scale is not used in the assessment. Matters that stay within money or competition—investors, shareholders, sanctions, trade secrets—are also excluded.
- The letter (assessment) and certainty (how reliable the information is) are separate axes.
This is a translation; the Japanese version is authoritative. The assessments here are generated automatically by AI based on published criteria. The operator does not alter individual results. Because they are AI-generated they may contain errors, and they are opinion and commentary, not statements of fact. Where evidence is insufficient, the entry is marked “On hold.” Requests for correction are accepted via the form.
Terms: Narrative Value = an assessment (A–G) of the distance between the narrative an organization tells and its reality / Ceiling meter = a visualization of the reachable upper bound / Watching = unconfirmed matters not counted / Protected stakeholders = people, animals, nature, and future generations. | Generated by: AI | As of: 2026-Q4 | Back to top