Accessing safe drinking water during floods in North Bihar - Case study from the work of Megh Pyne Abhiyan

This case study published in Yojana documents Megh Pyne Abhiyan's work in organising access to safe drinking water for rural communities during the 2006 and 2007 floods in North Bihar. As a result of the Abhiyan's work, approximately 13000 and 36000 people accepted and accessed rainwater as a safe drinking water during the North Bihar floods of 2006 and 2007 respectively. Using rain water for drinking led to significant improvement in health indicators and flood-related deaths and sickness, as well as reduction in health expenditure.

The case study gives a background of the general health and drinking water situation during the floods and provides the details of the various activities that were taken up by the Abhiyan as part of the flood response work, including the principles, details of the RWH potential calculations and techniques used and the outcomes achieved including statistics showing the improvement in health indicators.

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