Solutions to go with the flow
India is facing its worst water crisis ever, with more than 600 million people experiencing high-to-extreme water stress and scarcity. Providing water security for India’s massive population demands urgent solutions. The Tata Trusts have pitched in to help with a clutch of initiatives that focuses on delivering solutions that are at once immediate and long-lasting.
Ensuring that rural communities have access to quality drinking water, providing water and sanitation solutions in villages and schools, and making menstrual hygiene management a priority while ridding the subject of taboos — the Trusts have gone the distance in crafting impactful water, sanitation and hygiene programmes.
In the last five years, the Tata Water Mission has touched over four million lives in some 5,000 villages across the country. The interventions cover four core areas:
- Improving water quality through affordable and innovative technology made available to the community.
- Ensuring access to water and promoting conservation and improved delivery systems at the household level.
- Promoting improved sanitation and hygiene practices through extensive behavioural change campaigns.
- Building institutions by enhancing the knowledge of communities.
Collaboration is the essential ingredient in the approach of the Mission, which blends water schemes and projects in close association with the central and state governments and civil society entities.