1. Providing clean drinking water and
proper sanitation facility to all
Team Details:
Ashish Ranjan
Bipul Kumar
Kalyan Bhaskar
Poojan Chokshi
Rajiv Ranjan

2. Global Status
1.6 million people die
every year from
diarrhoeal & cholera
including 90% of them
being children below 5
years of age
160 million people are
infected with
schistosomiasis
500 million people are
at risk of trachoma
leading to blindness in
many cases
133 million suffering
from high intensity
intestinal helminths
infections and there are
around 1.5 million cases
of clinical hepatitis A
every year
As per World Health Organization,
 1.1 billion people have no access to any type of improved drinking source of water,
and about 2.6 billion people doesn’t have even a simple ‘improved’ latrine, due to
which :

3. The Indian Story – Drinking Water Coverage & Impact
Rural drinking water coverage – 72%
Urban drinking water coverage – 91%
An estimated $ 600 million of economic
burden to country
1.5 million children are estimated to die of
diarrhoea
Around 37.7 million Indians are affected
by waterborne diseases annually
66 million Indians are at risk due to
excess fluoride and 10 million due to
excess arsenic in groundwater
73 million working days are lost due to
waterborne disease each year

4. The Indian Story – Sanitation Coverage & Impact
Rural sanitation coverage – 75.28%
families have access to a toilet
Urban sanitation coverage – 83.2%
Nearly 600 million Indians are not able to
fulfil their basic excretion needs
with dignity and privacy
Nearly 375,000 tons of faeces per day are
currently being discharged untreated into
nature especially into rivers
Approximately 768,000 deaths a year are
caused by lack of sanitation including
that of 395,000 children
The health-related economic impacts of
inadequate sanitation was $38.5 billion
in 2006
Annual economic impact of inadequate
sanitation in India amounted to a loss of
$53.8 billion in 2006. This implies a per
capita annual loss of Rs.2,180

5. Dimensions of Drinking Water Problem
Dimensions
Availability
Quality Accessibility
Dispensing
Technology

6. Proposed Solution – Drinking Water
Dimension Proposed solution Impact
Challenges & Mitigating
Factors
Availability
Mobile water ATM
in line with concept
by “Sarvajal”
• Availability of
drinking water to
remotely located
areas
• Challenges: Financing
• Proposed solution:
Through self-help groups
Rain Harvesting
• Conservation of rain
water for drinking
purpose
• Challenges: Infrastructure
• Proposed solution:
Through govt supported
schemes
Check Dams in
Villages
• Conservation of rain
water drinking
purpose
• Challenges: Infrastructure
• Proposed solution:
Through govt supported
schemes
Behavioral Training
for conservation
• Understanding
about the value of
each drop of water
• Challenges: Initial Restrain
• Proposed solution:
Training at school level to
children and at block and
panchyat level also

7. Proposed Solution - Drinking Water
Dimension Proposed
solution
Impact Challenges &
Mitigating Factors
Quality
Use of
innovative
solution like
“Lifestraw”
• Filters up to 1,000 liters of
water
• Removes 99.99% of waterborne
bacteria
• Removes 99.9% of waterborne
protozoan parasites
• Reduces turbidity, filtering
down to 0.2 microns
• Challenges:
Financing
• Proposed solution:
carbon-offset system
to earn income, via
carbon credits
Behavioral
training for safe
use of available
water
• Availability of contamination
free potable water
• Challenges:
Restrain
• Proposed solution:
Training at school
level to children and
at block and
panchyat level also

8. Proposed Solution - Drinking Water
Dimension
Proposed
solution
Impact
Challenges &
Mitigating Factors
Accessibility
/ Dispensing
Technology
Use of
innovative
solution like
“Water ATM” &
“Mobile Water
ATM” using solar
power pioneered
by Sarvajal
• Safe drinking water can be
fetched to remote places
• At least one water ATM within
0.5 KM would make safe water
accessible to everyone
• Dispensing of safe drinking
water through smart card
• Challenges:
Financing
• Proposed solution:
Franchise run
business in local
community and
carbon-offset system
to earn income, via
carbon credits

9. Proposed Solution - Sanitation
Dimension
Proposed
solution
Impact
Challenges & Mitigating
Factors
Availability of
Infrastructure
/ Behavioral
Training
Community
toilet and
Mobile toilet
especially for
smaller
population
• Availability and
access of toilet to
everyone within
reach
• Employment to
local people in the
form of self help
group
• Challenges: Sustaining the
idea
• Proposed solution:
- Using waste generated for
energy production such as
bio-gas and earning income
through carbon credit
- Convertingthe waste into
organic fertilizer for
generatingincome
Creationof
hand washing
facility in
schools & other
locations such
as panchayat
and appropriate
sanitation
training
• Simple hand-
washing with
appropriate
sanitation training
can greatly alleviate
the disease burden,
reducing water-
born deaths by
45%.
• Challenges: Communicating
the idea
• Proposed solution:
- Campaign
- Training at schools and other
places like panchayats
- Involving young volunteers
from colleges

10. References
• http://www.who.int/water_sanitation_health/mdg1/en/ retrieved on 1st
September’2013.
• http://www.ddws.nic.in/OnlineMonitoring/indexframeset.htm retrieved on 1st
September’2013.
• Report of the Working group on Urban Development, 2006, Ministry of Urban
Development, Government of India.
• http://www.mdws.gov.in/sites/upload_files/ddws/files/pdf/2011-
12%20Final%20Annual%20Report%20%28English%29.pdf retrieved on 1st
September’2013.
• http://eartheasy.com/lifestraw retrieved on 2nd September’2013.
• http://milaap.org/the-need-sanitation?gclid=COu67_eMsbkCFfF24godtk0ACw
retrieved on 2nd September’2013.
• http://www.wsp.org/sites/wsp.org/files/publications/WSP-esi-india.pdf retrieved
on 2nd September’2013.