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Water Supply - Sector Overview

Department of Drinking Water & Sanitation

Ministry of Rural DevelopmentGovernment of India

Drinking Water Security in Rural IndiaDrinking Water Security in Rural India

National Rural Drinking Water Programme (NRDWP)

• National Goal – To provide every rural person with safe

water for drinking, cooking and other domestic basic needs on a sustainable basis. This basic requirement should meet certain minimum water quality standards and be readily and conveniently accessible at all times and in all situations

Outlay – Rs. 9000 crore in 2010-11Target to cover all uncovered,

quality affected and other habitations and households, schools with safe and adequate drinking water supply

• COVERAGE for providing safe and adequate drinking water supply to unserved, partially served and slipped back habitations. – 45%

• Provide potable drinking water to water QUALITY affected habitations. – 20%

• SUSTAINABILITY to encourage States to achieve drinking water security at the local level – 20%

• OPERATION & MAINTENANCE (O&M) for expenditure on running, repair and replacement costs of drinking water supply projects – 10% and

• SUPPORT activities – 5%.

• Allocation for DESERT DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME (DDP) areas to tackle the extreme conditions of low rainfall and poor water availability

• Earmarked funds to Mitigate drinking water problems in rural areas in the wake of NATURAL CALAMITIES,

COMPONENTS OFNATIONAL RURAL DRINKING WATER

PROGRAMME (NRDWP)

• NRDWP

• Funds released to States as per allocation criteria of rural population, rural SC&ST population, areas under DDP, DPAP, HADP and special category Hill States, population managing their own drinking water projects

• State level Scheme Sanctioning Committee has powers to plan, approve and take up drinking water projects

• Piped water supply schemes increasingly being taken up by States

NRDWP-COVERAGE

• Habitations are classified under the following categories (with and without quality problems)

– 0% population coverage– 0-25% – 25-50%– 50-75%– 75-100 %– 100% population coverage

• Priority in taking up schemes in habitations.

• Priority for coverage of Minority dominated habitations and LWE affected districts.

• At least 35% of COVERAGE & QUALITY FUNDS shall be earmarked for providing safe drinking water in adequate quantity to SC/ST population.

• 65% of funds provided under NRDWP provided to States can be utilized for COVERAGE on 50:50 Centre to State funding pattern.

NRDWP-QUALITY

• Habitations are classified under the following water quality problems

– Arsenic– Fluoride– Salinity– Iron

– Nitrate

• Tackling bacteriological contamination is

mandatorily included into all water supply projects

• Dual water supply can be prioritized for supply of 10 lpcd of safe drinking water for cooking and drinking purposes and quality-affected water purposes can be used for washing (iron free water), bathing, ablution, etc.

NRDWP- SUSTAINABILITY

• SUSTAINABILITY funds shall be utilized for improving the source and system sustainability by augmenting drinking water resources.

• Ground water recharge through check dams, percolation tanks, etc., surface water impounding like ponds, Ooranies, etc., improvement of traditional water bodies, conversion of defunct bore wells into point source recharging systems can be taken up under this component.

• Convergence with MNREGS can be achieved by planning funds required for excavation from MNREGS with material component from NRDWP-Sustainability funds.

• Use of new and renewable energy sources can be promoted, wherever necessary

• Conjunctive use of ground-water, surface water and rainwater harvesting could bring in drinking water security

• Over-exploited, critical and semi-critical blocks identified by CGWB can be prioritized.

• 20% of funds provided under NRDWP provided to States for sustainability as 100% Central assistance.

Strengths and Weaknesses• Strengths • 86% of rural population have

access to safe drinking water • About 11.51 lakh rural habitations

are fully covered with safe and adequate drinking water

• Satisfactory funding • Incentive for Sustainability,

Decentralisation, Support • Involvement of Panchayats,

ownership of communities• Good institutional structure of

SWSM, RWS Dept., DWSM, GP, VWSC

• Involvement of scientific inst. And civil society

• Weaknesses• Nearly 5.70 lakh habitations

slipped back to partial coverage• 1.44 lakh habitations having

contaminated drinking water• 85% dependence on

Groundwater - Severe depletion • Only about 35% habitations with

piped water supply• Only 12% (2005) households with

tap connections• Problem of weak O&M• Inadequate attention to software

activities, sustainability• Neglect of traditional sources

Understanding Best Practices• Long term sustainability - Gujarat• Roofwater harvesting – Mizoram• Tackling water quality – West Bengal - Arsenic• Revival of Traditional water bodies – Tamilnadu• Community managed groundwater systems- Andhra Pradesh• Water Quality Monitoring and Surveillance – Madhya Pradesh• Service delivery to STs – Orissa – Gram Vikas• Capacity building – Change Management - Tamilnadu• Sector wide reforms – Uttarakhand• Public-private partnership – Punjab, • Decentralisation – Kerala• Regulation – Maharashtra• Institutional Structures- Gujarat, Tamilnadu, Maharashtra• Metering and 24X7 water supply – Dakshina Kannada dt.,Karnataka

Fostering Innovations

• 20% of NRDWP funds for Sustainability on 100% grant basis• 5% for Support activities• 10% for innovative projects for States devolving management

to PRIs• Key Resource Centres for capacity building, documentation• Block Resource Centre for awareness generation and

capacity building • National Drinking Water and Sanitation Council

Online IMIS

• Using Web for on-line monitoring• GP level data on targets and achievements

•Feedback and Queries invited from all Stakeholders•Only database with habitation level data

http://www.ddws.gov.in

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NRDWP- SUPPORT

• NRDWP – SUPPORT funds (5% of NRDWP funds) shall be utilized for the following purposes :

– Water Quality Monitoring & Surveillance which inter alia include• Establishment of new district and sub-divisional laboratories• Upgradation of existing laboratories• Procurement of field test kits / refills

– Communication and Capacity Development ( shall cater for both NRDWP and TSC programmes)

• IEC (Awareness generation)• HRD (training and capacity building) – TNA Workshops, Training Calendars

– Community involvement & mobilization (formation of VWSCs, etc.)– Research & Development– State Technical Agency (STA) – required for ensuring sustainability

component in every water supply project which is put up for approval of SLSSC

– Monitoring & Evaluation– Administrative expenses

ICT Solutions

• Grievance Redressal – Punjab, Orissa, Jharkhand, Chattisgarh – toll free number

• HGM Maps with National Remote Sensing Centre• E-procurement, • GPS

Training and Communication Action Plans

• Training through 19 KRCs – Annual Action Plans • Communication and Capacity Development Units set up in all

States • Training Needs Assessment Workshops held in States• States have prepared Training Calendars • Community involvement activities plan• IEC Plans – IEC Guidelines issued• State Workshops being held by GoI officers for sensitizing and

motivating district level officials• Staffing pattern for DWSM includes IEC and HRD consultants• Block Resource Centres with 2-4 Social mobilisers/motivators

to be set up in all blocks

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