The document discusses rural communities' need for drinking water and water for other household and agricultural uses. It outlines various government schemes to provide drinking water and basic facilities to villages. It emphasizes the important role of local committees and communities, especially women, in planning, implementing, and monitoring water management solutions. The document details techniques rural villagers use to capture, store, filter, and distribute water, as well as recharge groundwater supplies. It suggests stakeholders can help accelerate villages' successes in the water sector.

1. Institute of Rural Research and Development (IRRAD)
(An initiative of the S.M. Sehgal Foundation)
Together, We Empower Rural India
World Environment Day 2012
Institute of Rural Research and Development (IRRAD)

2. Rural villages need drinking water in homes and
schools, and water for other household and
Rural villages need drinking water in homes and schools, and
agricultural uses
water for other household and agricultural uses

3. Rajiv Gandhi National Drinking Water Mission
Indira Gandhi Drinking Water Scheme
Integrated Wasteland Development Programme
National Mission on Micro-Irrigation
Government establishes schemes to provide these
Rural villages need drinking water in homes and schools, and
water for other basic facilities uses
household and agricultural

4. To leverage benefits of the schemes and reach all the
intended people, local communities must be
motivated to actively participate in planning,
Rural villages need drinking water in homes and schools, and
implementing and monitoring solutions
water for other household and agricultural uses

5. Village Health and Sanitation Committees and School
Management Committees exist to plan for the needs
of their communities

6. Women, concerned with family health and schooling,
serve on these committees in significant numbers

7. Empowered on their role and the village budget
allocation, these committees can play a critical
leadership role in improving in homes andin villages and
Rural villages need drinking water health schools, and
water for other household and agricultural uses
retaining students in schools

8. To manage water, villagers capture, store and
distribute water; filter drinking water; monitor water
quality; and properly dispose of wastewater

9. In semi-arid areas, villagers harvest rainwater and
Rural villages need drinking in tanks and schools, and
store it water in homes
water for other household and agricultural uses

10. They use bio-sand filters to purify water for drinking
Rural villages need drinking water in homes and schools, and
water for other household and agricultural uses

11. They use recharge-wells, check dams and ponds to
recharge groundwater
Rural villages need drinking water in homes and schools, and
water for other household and agricultural uses

12. They use soak pits todrinking water in homes andof wastewater
Rural villages need safely dispose schools, and
water for other household and agricultural uses

13. They save water wisely because they know it is like
generating water
Rural villages need drinking water in homes and schools, and
water for other household and agricultural uses

14. Women, so key to village water planning, also work
for pay on projects in a growing number of
Rural villages need drinking water in homes and schools, and
communities
water for other household and agricultural uses

15. What can stakeholders do to accelerate village
successes in the water sector?
Rural villages need drinking water in homes and schools, and
water for other household and agricultural uses

16. Institute of Rural Research and Development (IRRAD)
(An initiative of the S.M. Sehgal Foundation)
Together, We Empower Rural India
World Environment Day 2012
Institute of Rural Research and Development (IRRAD)