Tejas Raxwal

CEO & Co-Founder

Tejas Raxwal is the CEO and Co-Founder of H2O365, which he helped establish in 2020 after summer visits to India brought water scarcity into his daily life. A competitive swimmer in Florida, he was accustomed to measuring water in laps. With his grandmother in India, he helped collect the limited supply available for drinking, cooking, and washing. That experience drew his attention to the conditions that shape health long before a person reaches a clinic—and to the responsibility of working with communities whose lives are organized around those conditions.

Through H2O365, Tejas has worked with residents and local partners on the restoration of two community ponds and the development of rainwater-fed school nurseries. As those projects developed, he became increasingly concerned with what would sustain them. A restored pond needed continued care; a sapling needed someone willing to tend it. He began designing the work around the participation of teachers, students, and local leaders who could make decisions about its future.

Tejas Raxwal, CEO and Co-Founder of H2O365.

Education, participation, and lasting responsibility

That approach became concrete during a water education workshop. Tejas arrived with a lesson built around statistics about dehydration and disease. Teachers asked him to begin with experiences in the room. A grandmother recalled the year her well ran dry; students asked why water tankers reached some homes before others. Working with the teachers, he rebuilt the lesson around those questions and the choices families already made when water was scarce. Local experience became part of the curriculum, and students became participants in determining what the lessons should address.

To give that learning a life beyond individual workshops, Tejas co-authored Jal Hai To Kal Hai—“If There Is Water, There Is Tomorrow”—with Bhuvi Raxwal, H2O365’s President and Co-Founder. The illustrated water-literacy book has been used in four schools. He also produced a conservation film, If There Is Water, There Is Tomorrow. Across these forms, his aim is to make environmental questions understandable through experiences people recognize and can discuss with others.

His humanitarian work in Ukraine extended the same attention to local knowledge. Working with shelter staff and other partners, he helped adapt sanitation projects to the needs of displaced residents and the practical demands of maintenance. The experience reinforced a principle that guides his work in India: people who live with a problem need a meaningful role in deciding how it is addressed.

Tejas continues to develop H2O365’s water education and student leadership work in Bihar, including training Water Ambassadors to carry lessons into pond conservation. H2O365 is also raising funds and organizing an outreach mission for flood-affected communities in Nepal, while seeking local partners to help shape the response. His ambition is to build an organization whose educational resources, relationships, and community projects remain useful well beyond the first workshop or visit.