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The department has primarily mandate for supply of safe drinking water to rural areas. This can only be achieved by ensuring that the demands for drinking water appropriately addressed in the context of the physical, environmental and social background of the State. At the same time, we need to ensure that this vital resource will continue to be sustainable for future generations to come.
Project Details
Brief Background
A massive exercise has been launched aiming at strengthening and restructuring of department thereby reorienting it into a Customer Friendly and competitive organization. Efforts have also been initiated to achieve total delivery of better service using IT initiatives. New initiatives include facilities for obtaining house connection facilities Helpline facility Tube well repair Gangs to facilitate prompt maintenance etc.
Objective
Rural water supply systems including Installation of hand pumps mini water supply system etc. in small habitations/wards with piped water supply system for every individual household.
Benefits
The drinking water supply in the state is primarily dependent upon the ground water. The state government had conducted testing of 10% of government sources (45 000 sources) in the year 2002-2003 for 15 parameters except Arsenic. Result revealed the existence of chemical contamination like Fluoride and Iron in the different part of the state. Arsenic contamination in ground water was noticed in Simariya Ojhapatti village of Bhojpur district in October 2002. After noticing of Arsenic presence in ground water in Simariya Ojhapatti the department conducted testing of ground water in 10 km stretch bordering river Ganga and over 80000 water sources spreading over 65 blocks of 11 districts were tested for Arsenic.
