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- Title
Ensuring Drinking Water Safety in Nirmal Gram Panchayats In Rajasthan, India - A Major Challenge.
- Authors
Mendiratta, Satish Raj; Choudhary, Mahender; Kumar, Sudhir
- Abstract
A research was undertaken to assess the key parameters which impact the drinking water quality at household and community level in Nirmal Gram Panchayats (fully sanitized and open defecation free village councils) in ten districts of Rajasthan, the largest State by area in India. Five key parameters of water safety were rapidly assessed utilizing household survey questionnaire, structured-observations, visual inspections and testing bacteriological quality of water. The results of the research reveal that three out of five key parameters scored between 50 and 60 percent and two parameters scored between 60 and 70 percent. The State water safety index is 60.26 percent. All the Nirmal Gram Panchayats in Rajasthan needs to develop and implement the water quality surveillance and monitoring plan of actions with the technical and financial support from the state water and sanitation mission and respective district water and sanitation missions to ensure hundred percent water safety in all the Nirmal Gram Panchayats.
- Subjects
RAJASTHAN (India); DRINKING water quality; PANCHAYAT; AQUATIC microbiology; WATER safety (Biosecurity)
- Publication
Nature Environment & Pollution Technology, 2018, Vol 17, Issue 3, p1023
- ISSN
0972-6268
- Publication type
Article