Can India meet the 2012 deadline to provide safe drinking water to all rural homes?

Dear All

In continuation to the earlier posting on water, the article published in Down to Earth is the real eye opening to all of us. The pan and reality are different and moves on different platforms. The comments made to CSE on this key issue were furnished below for better reach as:
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The vision is right but the mission is not matching. The challenges of water like: shortage,pollution, salinity & miss management are complex and alarming. These are difficult but not impossible, it own needs commitment with accountability on life cycle basis. If this is the general situation, then the access by the persons with disabilities is beyond imagination? The dead line of 2012 to provide safe drinking water to all the rural homes looks bright on the paper but not at the grass root which i could see. Such gaps between the lab / plan to land leads for mistrust, depression and conflicts among the stakeholders. All these happens mostly due to the poor or no participation of the targeted groups in the projects of development. SWOT of such projects helps us for not repeating such gaps and to work for the people by the people with need based strategies and interventions.
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Looking forward to make reflections on this key resource without this life is beyond imagination.

with thanks