Community based Water Purifier Plants

•  The Minister for Rural Development today informed the Lok Sabha that under the National Rural Drinking Water Programme (NRDWP), it is envisaged that every rural person is provided with adequate safe water for drinking, cooking and other domestic basic needs on a sustainable basis.
  
• This basic requirement should meet minimum water quality standards and be readily and conveniently accessible at all times and in all situations. In this regard, Government of India supplements the efforts of the State Governments by providing financial and technical assistance under NRDWP for implementation of water supply schemes in rural areas.
• India has achieved Goal 7 of UN Millenium Development Goal to halve the proportion of people without sustainable access to safe drinking water by 2015, since 84% of the rural population used improved drinking sources in 2008 as against the goal of 83% by 2015.