Water supply for urban poor
CURE believes
that every poor household must be connected to municipal water
supply in the house in an equitable manner. This goal can be
incrementally achieved and people moved from current
inadequate arrangements (community sources with inadequate
duration, quality, quantity, timings, etc.) to paid household
water connections. With paid connections, poor will get access
to legitimate services and as clients, raise demand for better
service quality.
CURE’s work in the water sector includes:
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Projects to improve access to water supply to slum and low income households
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Policy Research
and Support to policy implementation
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Design of
network supply systems
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Basic Urban
Services for the Poor Reforms
Development of
Community Based Information Systems – applications for water
supply
CURE has
implemented various projects in achieving its vision for water supply for the the poor people.
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In Delhi, under
the Prayas-Bhagidari initiative, it has
followed a Mission mode approach to improve current supply
arrangements by increasing numbers of stand posts within
settlements, improving water quality – better pressure,
friendly timings, adequate duration and quantity of potable
supply. It has set up community oversight systems (Water
Committees – Pani Samittis) that are responsible for
overseeing water distribution and collection arrangements.
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Setting up a
commercially viable community managed Water kiosk to
improve access to safe drinking water and reducing high
health costs; a
People
Public Private Partnership
arrangement with TERI, DJB and Toyota Foundation
CURE’s
research on water
supply issues
is aimed at
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Supporting
pro-poor policy dialogue and creating an enabling
environment for policy change;
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Improving
service provider understanding on how poor access water;
coping strategies and opportunity costs of poor services;
willingness, affordability and capacity to pay with
recommendations and technical suggestions for networking
poor to supply systems.