Availability of Clean Drinking Water - Inputs Needed on Solutions
Dear Friends:
Below are the key Root Causes and Issues for the current state of Drinking Water in India.
Please review them and help identify specific solutions to these Root Causes.
We will then compile a whitepaper to be submitted to Ministry of Drinking Water and through them to other related stakeholders for action.
We look forward to your inputs!
Rajendra Pratap Gupta
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Availability of Clean Drinking Water – Root Causes
1. Pipelines have not been laid to all places
2. Demand for drinking water is high
3. Water treatment plants are not able to generate enough drinking water
4. The water treatment plants are technologically old and inefficient
5. These plants are also not able to purify the water to the best level
6. Poor maintenance of Overhead/Underground Water Storage Tanks
7. Ineffective chlorination before pumping for domestic consumptions
8. A lot of the water pipelines are very old as susceptible to cracks and leakages
9. Workers of the water department have a careless attitude
10. There doesn’t exists an effective complaint redressal system drinking water complaints
11. People do not care about the free drinking water that is available in public areas and waste it
12. Water tank suppliers do not care about cleanliness as there is no authority to keep them in check
13. Harmful chemicals and sewage waste is dumped into the water bodies
14. Religious ceremonies are performed in rivers, making the water untreatable
15. There are no quality checks on drinking water supply
16. There is a nexus between water tank suppliers and water department
17. Too much water is misused by the upper class
18. District Managements particularly in Rural India does not take responsibility for Water Management
Availability of Clean Drinking Water – Key Issues
1. A lot of places still don’t get the supply of drinking water at all
2. Water supply is irregular and inadequate
3. Urban pockets in small and mid-size towns do not have municipal water pipes and people make their own arrangements for drinking water
4. Poor condition of water pipes & widespread leaks cause pollution of drinking water
5. People get sick due to drinking contaminated water
6. It is tough to reach the water department and make complaints
7. In villages and rural India, people have to walk miles to find drinking water
8. Chlorine and bleaching powder is used to treat water which is not good for health
9. Wastage of drinking water due to water valves getting broken or stolen
10. Water reservoirs are not cleaned periodically and are not maintained in good shape
11. A lot of water is wasted in public areas due to broken taps
12. Supply water tanks are not cleaned regularly
13. ‘Water mafia’ has developed and drinking water is being sold at a high premium
14. A lot of mineral water bottles being sold in the market are found to be fake. more
Below are the key Root Causes and Issues for the current state of Drinking Water in India.
Please review them and help identify specific solutions to these Root Causes.
We will then compile a whitepaper to be submitted to Ministry of Drinking Water and through them to other related stakeholders for action.
We look forward to your inputs!
Rajendra Pratap Gupta
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Availability of Clean Drinking Water – Root Causes
1. Pipelines have not been laid to all places
2. Demand for drinking water is high
3. Water treatment plants are not able to generate enough drinking water
4. The water treatment plants are technologically old and inefficient
5. These plants are also not able to purify the water to the best level
6. Poor maintenance of Overhead/Underground Water Storage Tanks
7. Ineffective chlorination before pumping for domestic consumptions
8. A lot of the water pipelines are very old as susceptible to cracks and leakages
9. Workers of the water department have a careless attitude
10. There doesn’t exists an effective complaint redressal system drinking water complaints
11. People do not care about the free drinking water that is available in public areas and waste it
12. Water tank suppliers do not care about cleanliness as there is no authority to keep them in check
13. Harmful chemicals and sewage waste is dumped into the water bodies
14. Religious ceremonies are performed in rivers, making the water untreatable
15. There are no quality checks on drinking water supply
16. There is a nexus between water tank suppliers and water department
17. Too much water is misused by the upper class
18. District Managements particularly in Rural India does not take responsibility for Water Management
Availability of Clean Drinking Water – Key Issues
1. A lot of places still don’t get the supply of drinking water at all
2. Water supply is irregular and inadequate
3. Urban pockets in small and mid-size towns do not have municipal water pipes and people make their own arrangements for drinking water
4. Poor condition of water pipes & widespread leaks cause pollution of drinking water
5. People get sick due to drinking contaminated water
6. It is tough to reach the water department and make complaints
7. In villages and rural India, people have to walk miles to find drinking water
8. Chlorine and bleaching powder is used to treat water which is not good for health
9. Wastage of drinking water due to water valves getting broken or stolen
10. Water reservoirs are not cleaned periodically and are not maintained in good shape
11. A lot of water is wasted in public areas due to broken taps
12. Supply water tanks are not cleaned regularly
13. ‘Water mafia’ has developed and drinking water is being sold at a high premium
14. A lot of mineral water bottles being sold in the market are found to be fake. more
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Clean water is the basic need of every people.Recently in Cuttack Dist. In Orissa peoples are suffering from Jaundice due to the drinking of bad water and around 40 peoples are died of Jaundice attack.I would therefore request the Govt.to look after the matter personally and take steps to supply clean water. more
Mar 14
Long term solution : make it mandatory to plant at least 2 different trees at each individual house and if it's an apartment one tree for each 10 feet. Non compliance of this rule should lead to cancellation of approval of housing property. Plant trees along both the sides of all roads. If trees need to be cut municipality or whoever is concerned should plant the same number of trees in the locality. Trees in the long run will play a role in the amount of rain the place gets. Short term solution: Sewage water/ drained water can be recycled and can be used in toilet flush Using ozone instead of chlorine to purify water more
Dec 26
Clean water is the basic necessity . We need to learn from Singapore to save our resources more
Dec 26
Many villages in Telangana and AP are badly affected due to dangerous flouride levels in drinking water. Please identify such areas and setup the RO plants and distribute the water with cheaper rates. Also send the treated drinking water vehicles to slums. more
Dec 26
If solved waste water which is to be drained out in the rivers and sea without clarifide it should be solved. We can provide innovative solution for the same more
Dec 23
