Norms for Rural Water Supply in India

The study concerns norms that have been established by the Government of India in order to attain a network of facilities to provide an acceptable level of water consumption within a stipulated time frame. The term acceptable level is crucial and i...

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Main Author: Misra, Smita
Format: Policy Note
Language:English
en_US
Published: World Bank, Washington, DC 2014
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10986/19477
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spelling okr-10986-194772017-12-14T08:59:49Z Norms for Rural Water Supply in India Misra, Smita AVAILABILITY OF WATER CHEMICAL CONTAMINATION CONSTRUCTION COST RECOVERY COST SHARING DOMESTIC CONNECTIONS DRINKING WATER DRINKING WATER SUPPLY HOUSEHOLDS LITERS PER CAPITA PER DAY PIPED WATER PROGRAMS PUBLIC WATER QUANTITY OF WATER RURAL COMMUNITIES RURAL WATER RURAL WATER SUPPLY SAFE DRINKING WATER SERVICE DELIVERY URBAN WATER URBAN WATER SUPPLY WASHING WATER AVAILABILITY WATER CONSUMPTION WATER PRESSURE WATER SCHEME WATER SCHEMES WATER SOURCE WATER SOURCES WATER SUPPLY SERVICE WATER SUPPLY SERVICES The study concerns norms that have been established by the Government of India in order to attain a network of facilities to provide an acceptable level of water consumption within a stipulated time frame. The term acceptable level is crucial and it has a two-fold rationale. First, competing demand for greater investment in other sectors has left relatively small allocation for the domestic sector. In the face of resource constraint, the tendency was to impose economy measures. Second, the wide inter-state differences in the provision of rural water supply services and infrastructure requires governmental intervention. Thus, standard norms have been fixed for the provision of rural and urban water supply service. The current central rural water supply norms govern all central programs and are mostly adhered by state sector programs. 2014-08-19T21:21:25Z 2014-08-19T21:21:25Z 2008-06 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/19477 English en_US CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/ World Bank, Washington, DC Economic & Sector Work :: Policy Note Economic & Sector Work South Asia India
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language English
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topic AVAILABILITY OF WATER
CHEMICAL CONTAMINATION
CONSTRUCTION
COST RECOVERY
COST SHARING
DOMESTIC CONNECTIONS
DRINKING WATER
DRINKING WATER SUPPLY
HOUSEHOLDS
LITERS PER CAPITA PER DAY
PIPED WATER
PROGRAMS
PUBLIC WATER
QUANTITY OF WATER
RURAL COMMUNITIES
RURAL WATER
RURAL WATER SUPPLY
SAFE DRINKING WATER
SERVICE DELIVERY
URBAN WATER
URBAN WATER SUPPLY
WASHING
WATER AVAILABILITY
WATER CONSUMPTION
WATER PRESSURE
WATER SCHEME
WATER SCHEMES
WATER SOURCE
WATER SOURCES
WATER SUPPLY SERVICE
WATER SUPPLY SERVICES
spellingShingle AVAILABILITY OF WATER
CHEMICAL CONTAMINATION
CONSTRUCTION
COST RECOVERY
COST SHARING
DOMESTIC CONNECTIONS
DRINKING WATER
DRINKING WATER SUPPLY
HOUSEHOLDS
LITERS PER CAPITA PER DAY
PIPED WATER
PROGRAMS
PUBLIC WATER
QUANTITY OF WATER
RURAL COMMUNITIES
RURAL WATER
RURAL WATER SUPPLY
SAFE DRINKING WATER
SERVICE DELIVERY
URBAN WATER
URBAN WATER SUPPLY
WASHING
WATER AVAILABILITY
WATER CONSUMPTION
WATER PRESSURE
WATER SCHEME
WATER SCHEMES
WATER SOURCE
WATER SOURCES
WATER SUPPLY SERVICE
WATER SUPPLY SERVICES
Misra, Smita
Norms for Rural Water Supply in India
geographic_facet South Asia
India
description The study concerns norms that have been established by the Government of India in order to attain a network of facilities to provide an acceptable level of water consumption within a stipulated time frame. The term acceptable level is crucial and it has a two-fold rationale. First, competing demand for greater investment in other sectors has left relatively small allocation for the domestic sector. In the face of resource constraint, the tendency was to impose economy measures. Second, the wide inter-state differences in the provision of rural water supply services and infrastructure requires governmental intervention. Thus, standard norms have been fixed for the provision of rural and urban water supply service. The current central rural water supply norms govern all central programs and are mostly adhered by state sector programs.
format Economic & Sector Work :: Policy Note
author Misra, Smita
author_facet Misra, Smita
author_sort Misra, Smita
title Norms for Rural Water Supply in India
title_short Norms for Rural Water Supply in India
title_full Norms for Rural Water Supply in India
title_fullStr Norms for Rural Water Supply in India
title_full_unstemmed Norms for Rural Water Supply in India
title_sort norms for rural water supply in india
publisher World Bank, Washington, DC
publishDate 2014
url http://hdl.handle.net/10986/19477
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