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Safe drinking water: Kolu Jubbad Tarapur gram panchayat

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Project details

About the place

Where
Mashobra, Shimla, Himachal Pradesh
Gram panchayat
Kolu Jubbad Tarapur

Gaps

  • Households with sufficient water 69.35%
4 more below ↓

About this Project

What gets done

To ensure sustainable access to safe drinking water for rural communities by establishing community-owned water quality monitoring systems, promoting affordable household water treatment practices, and strengthening government capacity and policy support for drinking water quality in 20 Gram Panchayats across Mashobra and Kunihar blocks of Shimla and Solan Districts respectively.

The gaps, and how they will be filled

What the household survey found here

Does the water source last all year?

46.77%
All year
53.23%
Seasonal scarcity

Where water comes from during scarcity

A spring further away31.25%
Buy from a tanker34.38%
Neighbours9.38%
A stream or other source25%

Do households treat their drinking water?

  • 62.9% Always
  • 25.81% Some seasons
  • 11.29% Never

Why households that do not treat their water say so

The natural source is safe100%
Always drunk it this way0%
The water looks clean0%
It costs too much0%
What gets done
  1. 01Baseline survey of 990 households in 180 villages across the 20 gram panchayats, representing about 9,700 households
  2. 02138 Master Trainers trained in household water treatment and safe storage, drinking water quality testing and community WASH promotion
  3. 03872 people trained by the Master Trainers: ASHA and Anganwadi workers, self-help group members, community volunteers, schoolchildren and teachers
  4. 04WASH training for 19 public administration officials and 149 newly elected Zila Parishad representatives across nine districts
  5. 05Jal Strotra Yatras and Jal Raksha campaigns to reach 7,500 households on safe drinking water practices
  6. 06Partnerships with Jal Shakti Vibhag, the National Rural Livelihood Mission, and the education and rural development departments
Technical details (WASH Institute survey data)

Every field exactly as recorded by the survey team, for diligence and reporting.

Reference ID
shimla-kolu-jubbad-tarapur
Category
Water Supply/Drinking Water Projects
Sub-category
Water Quality
Solution
Awareness and behaviour change
Cost
Being assessed
GPS coordinates
31.1505, 77.2018