This document discusses drinking water quality in rural India. It notes that water is essential for life and outlines the average daily water requirements per person for drinking, sanitation, bathing, and food preparation. It then discusses how pollution of rivers and lakes poses risks to wildlife and agriculture. The document also covers how water is drawn, treated, and tested for drinking purposes. Finally, it addresses how access to clean drinking water and sanitation is still lacking for much of the rural population in India.

1. Drinking Water Quality In Rural India

2. Audit of Water and Water issues
• Water is an essential thing for life.
• Without water life is impossible
• How much water is required per person per day?
• As per universal standards(Average)
* For drinking - 5 litres
* sanitation - 20 litres
* Bathing - 15
* Food preparation - 10

3. Rivers and lakes
• Rivers and lakes provide a wide variety of
environmental problems
• Pollution of the rivers and the lakes poses risk to the
lives of the fauna/flora in the lakes and the rivers
• It also gives risk to the area or the river banks due to
contact of the polluted water.
• The plants and the agriculture on the rivers and river
banks get affected by the polluted water that flows.

4. Water recycle
• Water is drawn from water system for drinking
• Water is treated for drinking purposes
• Local bodies assures the quality
• The water is treated with disinfectants
• PCBs have to see whether the measurements
of the chemicals used is as per standards fixed
or not

5. WATER AUDIT CHECKPOINTS
•Collect the various policy declarations of the Government as to its strategy to deal
with water pollution, sustenance of water resources, water sharing, water pricing
etc, to frame the audit approach.
•Get the detailed actions plans and programmes prepared and proposed for
implementation.
•Conduct the usual regularity, financial propriety and Performance audit of these
programmes.
•Examine the various statues to identify the objectives, responsibilities and
mandates of the Governments, CPCB, SPCBs, etc particularly the following acts and
programmes
 River Boards Act, 1956
 Inter State Water Disputes Act, 1956
 Irrigation Commissions (1901, 1972)
 Accelerated Rural Water Supply Programme (1972 – 73)
 Drought Prone Area Programme (1973)
 The water (Prevention and Control of Pollution Act) 1974
 Command Area Development Programme 1974 – 75
 The Water Cess Act, 1977
 Setting up of National Water Resources Council 1983
Centrally Sponsored Rural Sanitation Programme 1986
 Environmental Protection Act 1986

6. Drinking water and sanitation
• This is the most common factor and most important
one.
• Lot of world population is devoid of access to clean
drinking water
• Masses from the rural areas lack facility for potable
water for household purposes.
• The massive amount required to be spent to bring
water to the population is some times criticized by
the SAIs