Tap water connections

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• Tamil Nadu, Himachal Pradesh, Goa, and Puducherry reported more than 80% of households with fully functional connections, while fewer than half the households in Rajasthan, Kerala, Manipur, Tripura, Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, Mizoram and Sikkim had such connections.
• A fully functional tap water connection is defined as a household getting at least 55 litres per capita per day of potable water all through the year.
• Close to three-fourths of households received water all seven days a week and 8% just once a week.
• On an average, households got water for three hours every day, and 80% reported that their daily requirements of water were being met by the tap connections.
• The report mentions a concerning problem of chlorine contamination. Though 93% of the samples were reportedly free of bacteriological contamination, “most of the anganwadi centres and schools, had higher than the permissible range of residual chlorine and indicated inappropriate local dosing.

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Source : The Hindu