Question

Role of nurse in national water supply and sanitation programme

Answer 1

1. NATIONAL WATER SUPPLY AND SANITATION PROGRAMME

2. WATER SUPPLY AND SANITATION IN INDIA  Drinking water supply and sanitation facilities are very important and crucial for achieving the goal of “HEALTH FOR ALL”.  According to WHO, “poor sanitation and inadequate sewage disposal the nation’s biggest public health problems.”

3. Contd.….  Approximately 80-90% of untreated sewage is discharged directly into rivers and streams, the main source water supply in cities. Human faeces remains one of the world’s most dangerous pollutants, spreading microbes that causes typhoid, cholera, diarrheal illness, amoebic dysentery and other virulent disease.

4. STATUS IN INDIA URBAN RURAL TOTAL  Improved water source : 96% 84% 88%  Improved sanitation : 54% 21% 31%

5. SERVICE QUALITY  WATER SUPPLY CONTINUITY According to INDIAN NORMS, access to improved water supply exists if at least 40 liter/ capita / day of safe drinking water are provided within a distance of 1.6km or 100 meter of elevation difference, to be relaxed as per field conditions. There should be at least one pump per 250 persons.

6.  SANITATION In 2010, the UN estimated based on India statistics that 626 million people practice open defecation. In June 2012, minister of rural development JAIRAM RAMESH stated India is the words largests “ open air toilet.” Of the 2.5 Billion people in the world that defecate openly, some 665 Million live in India.

7.  ENVIRONMENT As of 2003, it was estimated that only 27% of India’s waste water was being treated, with the remainder flowing into rivers, canals, ground water or the sea.

8. RIVER GANGES -INDIA

Answer 2

Water and Health

Explanation:

• Sanitation facilities and drinking water are very important role and critical for accomplishing the objective for accomplishing the objective of "Wellbeing FOR ALL"
• Human farces stays one of the World's most dangerous pollutants, spreading organisms that cause Typhoid, Cholera, Diarrheal ailment, Amoebic Dysentery, and other virulent disease (WHO 1999)  
• The Union Government of India appointed the Environmental Hygiene Committee (1948 - 49), which prescribed an exhaustive arrangement for giving safe water supply and sanitation to the population From that point the Sanitation Program National water  was launched in 1954
• The United Nations proclaimed 1981 - 1990 as the "Universal Drinking Water Supply and Sanitation Decade"