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Policy Paper 1 - Community Managed System for Operation, Billing & Collection of Water Charges |
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The Urban Local Bodies are mandated to make adequate provision for the management and maintenance
of all municipal water works and construction of new works for providing supply of suitable water for
public and private purposes. This requires adequate resources which are to be raised from consumers.
Inadequacies in management include high proportions of non-revenue water, poor billing arrangements,
limited metering, non-viable pricing, lack of proper municipal dues collection, and poor revenue recovery
rates leading to commercially non-viable urban local bodies, and inadequate service coverage especially
in the slum and squatter settlements to improve service delivery. The prevailing water tariffs are generally
below the actual cost of water supply. Moreover, the urban water supply sector has traditionally been
plagued with high levels of inefficiencies leading to poor service delivery. This leads to a poor willingness
to pay among the consumers and consequent poor collection of water charges and financial losses to the
urban local bodies. Rationalization of water tariff and its billing and collection system is one of such
measures to improve fund mobilization.
Country: India |
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Policy Paper 2 - Measures for Ensuring Sustainability of Rainwater Harvesting |
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Urban centers in India are facing an ironical situation with regard to water today. On one hand there is
acute water scarcity and on the other, the streets are often flooded during the monsoons, requiring
managerial efficiency of the Urban Local Bodies to use the surplus water of the rainy season to overcome
the deficiency in other seasons. The shortage of ground water is more pronounced due to urbanization
and limited open areas available for recharge of ground water. In some cities ground water extraction has
reached very high levels and has brought problems like declining water table, failures of wells/ tube wells
and deterioration in ground water quality and quantity. Water is more than often been seen as a cause for
social conflicts, protests, demonstrations and road-blockades. In the given situation rainwater harvesting
could prove to be a solution for overcoming this scenario.
Country: India |
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Policy Paper 3 - Rejuvenation of Community Toilets |
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Sanitation services are necessary to support urban stability, enable social balance, economic growth
and development and are imperative for the improvement of urban public services. Although there have
been several national initiatives to increase sanitation coverage in India, a substantial part of urban
population, especially in slums, has no adequate sanitation facilities made available to them by the
government machinery, whether local or central. In cities, as on-site sanitation option, Urban Local Bodies
have constructed community toilets. Community toilets not only provide sanitation facility but at the
same time have a demonstrative effect as well. The people using these become habitual users of toilets,
and in turn realize the need for individual household toilets. Community toilets thus are the tools for
bringing behavioural changes amongst the public residing in the slum areas as well as in generating a
demand for the use of the individual toilets.
Country: India |
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Policy Paper 1 - Community Managed System for Operation, Billing & Collection of Water Charges