WATER & SANITATION
In spite of the growth that India has experienced in the recent years, basic facilities like safe drinking water and sanitation remain a problem area.
At most of the urban centres in most of the states, the underground water table has gone dangerously low owing to unplanned growth of the cities, burgeoning population, inadequate purifying technologies and rampant wastage. Creating an increasing number of reserve water bodies, making rainwater harvesting mandatory for apartment and big residential blocks, devising mutually-advantageous river water sharing policies between states and creating awareness against wastage through contact programmes and mass media campaigns are the need of the hour.
Sanitation remains a problem area for the villagers and the poorest of the poor living in urban centres. Creating public facilities close to the slum areas through private participation and creating awareness about basic cleanliness and hygiene will go long way in providing a solution.
Some of the parameters considered here are drinking water and access to toilet facilities.