In India, the national goal is to provide every rural person with adequate water for drinking and cookingrnon a sustainable basis. Water supply for drinking and cooking should maintain sufficient quantity andrnquality. Access to drinking water supply alone is not enough to reduce health problems unless quality isrnensured. For instance, bacteriological contamination of drinking water can cause child mortality despiternample water quantity. Reliability of drinking water quality is equally important at both the productionrnand consumption levels. Under the national drinking water supply programme, we have developed andrnimplemented the Community Led Action for Sanitary Surveillance (CLASS) approach to trigger remedialrnmeasures for improved access to safe drinking water. We used a World Bank funded reward scheme tornmotivate communities to adopt CLASS in 35 villages in Uttarakhand, India. We found motivated localrnself-government members effectively facilitated CLASS, so the approach has potential to becomernreplicable.
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