Journal of Community Mobilization and Sustainable Development
Year : 2010, Volume : 5, Issue : 2
First page : ( 37) Last page : ( 41)
Print ISSN : 2230-9047.

Practices for Safe Storage of Drinking Water among Rural Households of Haryana

Mehta Kusum¹, Ph.D., Goel Rita², Professor, Yadav Lali², Professor

¹Scholar Department of Extension Education and Communication Management College of Home Science, CCS Haryana Agricultural University, Hissar-125 004, Haryana

²Department of Extension Education and Communication Management College of Home Science, CCS Haryana Agricultural University, Hissar-125 004, Haryana

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Water is one of the most vital natural resources for all life on earth. Safety is more a visual issue, albeit, only a small proportion think of germ-free water as safe. Dipping glasses and fingers into the vessel in which drinking water is stored is common practice. Studies have shown that contamination increases substantially between the source of drinking water and its storage as well as consumption. Present exploratory study was conducted to access the practices for safe storage of drinking water among rural households of Haryana. The study was conducted in four randomly selected villages i.e. Baliali and Chang from Bhiwani District and Mayer and Umra from Hissar District of Haryana state on a sample of 400 rural women hailed from APL and BPL families @50 APL+ 50 BPL from each village. It was found that 66.2 percent of the respondents had always used loose fitted lid to cover stored drinking water. Earthen pot was cleaned daily by a colossal majority of the respondents (76.2%). 42.7 percent of the respondents had cleaned the place of keeping stored water vessel as per their suitability/whenever needed by them. More than half of the respondents (57.7%) had used a glass to take drinking water out from the vessel.

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Keywords

Safe storage, Drinking water, Haryana.

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