4 out of 10 rural households travel every day for drinking water
Published on by Water Network Research, Official research team of The Water Network in Social
Women in rural India walk over 1.5 km to fetch drinking water. Photo: Salahuddin
Close to 42 per cent rural households travel every day to fetch drinking water. The distance they cover ranges from less than 0.2 km (30.4 per cent households) to over 1.5 km (0.5 per cent households) one way, suggests the recently released 76th round of National Sample Survey Office.
This means rural India has households whose members travel more than 3 km (round trip from the primary water source) each day to get water. A rough calculation suggests that these households cover a distance of over 1,000 km a year—one way trip from Delhi to Patna by road—to get drinking water.
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