Rural Water Supply (RWS)

The projects are aimed at providing safe drinking water. This will be reducing water-borne diseases, particularly diarrhoeal diseases among children.

All rural water supply projects do have a second objective - to strengthen institutional capacity of the regional water supply and management. This is essential for sustainable future yielding from the project.

The projects have normally three main components, unless it is associated with sanitation:

1. The water supply and distribution component, which  has four subcomponents, consisting of
• replacing and rehabilitating sections of the distribution systems, water treatment plants, and ground water sources, and building more trunk pipelines;
• developing the local water supply and distribution systems, including providing spare parts for desalinization units;
• water demand management and loss reduction, including metered water usage, consumer awareness, and leakage reduction; and
• equipment for operation and maintenance;
2. the technical assistance component will institutionally strengthen water utilities and bulk providers, finance a water and sewerage tariff study, and refinance a feasibility study; and
3. the last component will fund project management, project design, and construction supervision.

 

Minor projects aimed at demonstrating water harvesting techniques which can be adapted on a family/household basis is gaining encouraging response when implemented in urban pockets. Rain water harvesting from rooftops is a low budget scheme. Low cost roof  catchment devices are installed primarily with an aim to demonstrate the method as families can install this system themselves. Institutional support like credit may be arranged.

Rain water harvesting is gaining popularity in urban pockets