TY  - BOOK
AU  - Rao, T. Yadagiri
TI  - Drinkimg Water Supply and Sanitation in Rural Areas: a Review 
SN  - 09733574
KW  - Drinking Water Supply
KW  - Rural Sanitation
N2  - Rural water supply and rural sanitation facilities are essential ingredients in the total programme for rural development. There are many other allied elements which go into the total process of rural development. These include infrastructural aspects like land management, soil conservation, aforestation, and so on.

The rural masses are still waging a hard struggle in order to meet their minimum needs like safe drinking water, food and shelter. The development measures adopted by the governments of developing countries like India to solve the problem of mass poverty unfolded numerous tendencies of alarming nature. It is opined that, "the new rural development policy of Indian government in the context of globalization not only to realize the objectives for which it is claimed to be forged, but apart from creating a sort of dependence of masses on state and also will aggravate the trends generated by earlier policy and will introduce a number of sinister currents which would confuse and sow seeds of internecine fratricidal ferments among exploited and oppressed masses". Hence, development should be defined as "utilization of natural resources for conferring the maximum possible benefits to the hitherto poor and oppressed population, while avoiding or minimizing long term damage and other destructive side effects to the existing resources base and avoiding anti-poor market trap.

An attempt is made in this paper to explain and analyze the problem of supplying safe drinking water in the Indian countryside, and governments strategy to the meet this challenge; the nature of technology applied and adopted by government for supplying safe drinking water and sanitation problems of the rural masses, the question of relevance of that technology, effective and proper utilization of this technology. How far the operational aspects of this technical knowledge and other related knowledge had been made popular in the rural areas? However, the arguments, put forward in this paper related to certain issues further strengthened basing on latest data from both primary and secondary sources
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