Household Water Delivery Options in Urban and Rural India

Introduction In over 50 years of political independence and economic development, India has not been able to ensure the most basic of human needs – safe drinking water – for all its citizens. In April 2002, then Prime Minister Vajpayee confronted this problem openly and clearly.

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