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4 in 5 (79%) of India’s rural habitations have access to a minimum of 2 buckets (40 litres) of safe drinking water per capita per day (lpcd), 18% have access to no more than 40 lpcd & 3% have access to poor quality water, per govt data https://bit.ly/2TxltCu
Access to safe drinking water has barely changed from 2017, when 77% of rural habitations had access to a minimum of 40 lpcd of water, 19% had access to no more than 40 lpcd safe water & 4% used contaminated water https://bit.ly/3jEEVb3
Households that have access to potable water use several different sources, including hand pumps, wells & public taps. Only 21.4% of households (11.3% rural & 40.9% urban) have piped water at home, per 2018 govt data
http://www.mospi.gov.in/sites/default/files/publication_reports/Report_584_final_0.pdf
http://www.mospi.gov.in/sites/default/files/publication_reports/Report_584_final_0.pdf
In August 2019, the central govt began the Jal Jeevan Mission (JMM) #HarGharJal, with a budget of Rs 3.6 lakh crore ($50 bn), to provide every rural household with at least 55 lpcd of drinking water through tap connections by 2024 https://bit.ly/35Ksndy
JJM is a programme which could reduce the burden of rural women who fetch water from wells but there are challenges in its implementation, Sunderrajan Krishnan, Indian Natural Resource Economics & Management Foundation, told us in Feb 2020 https://www.indiaspend.com/reducing-access-to-water-related-data-is-a-regressive-move/
4,588 rural habitations accessed drinking water sources that contained arsenic, as of August 2020, up by 155% from 2015 (1,800); 5,632 had drinking water contaminated by fluoride, down by 56% from 2015 (12,727), per govt data https://bit.ly/35DNoXe
Over 163 mn Indians did not have access to safe drinking water, we reported in 2018. The National Rural Drinking Water Programme (now subsumed under JJM), despite spending 90% of its Rs 89,956 cr ($14 bn) budget over 5 yrs to 2017, “failed” to meet targets https://bit.ly/3e0Vgpn
69,258 habitations home to ~46 million people had access to poor quality water sources, per govt data. India needs to look beyond the quantity of water it makes available to its people & ensure quality & reliability, we had reported in Nov 2018 https://bit.ly/3e0Vgpn
