Social activist Jacqueline Lundquist tells Madhur Tankha that “in the U.S., people get drinking water even in their bathrooms”

Jacqueline Lundquist, a social activist and the wife of the former United States Ambassador to India Richard Celeste, is now on an ambitious mission to provide unadulterated water to people living across the country, especially in rural areas.

Nearly 88.5% of households in rural India have access to improved source of drinking water while the corresponding figure for urban India is 95%, says the latest National Sample Survey released on

Sixty percent of rural households do not have access to toilet facility even after 66 years of independence

Among the reasons that the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) won electoral support in Delhi may have been its pledges to provide 700 litres of free drinking water each day along with a 50% reduction in electricity tariff.

New data on the status of drinking water and sanitation released by the National Sample Survey Organisation on Tuesday indicated a far better state of affairs than that is detailed in the 2011 Cens

Assam has completed over 22,000 schemes under the National Rural Drinking Water Programme (NRDWP) between April 2010 and November this year.

Muree—Murtaza Javed Abbasi, Deputy Speaker National Assembly, and Takashi Katae, Deputy Chief of Mission/Minister Embassy of Japan, Islamabad, inaugurated Rural Water Supply Schemes for six village

Aims to set up 600 water purifying plants in the country by 2014

National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (Nabard), along with the government of Karnataka, will promote water purifying plants throughout the State to provide clean drinking water in rural areas at more affordable rates, said G. R. Chintala, Chief General Manager (CGM), Regional Office of Karnataka, Nabard.

Maharashtra cabinet today approved Rs 1,444 crore project for supply of water in the rural areas.

The Karnataka High Court on Wednesday asked top officials of Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh to appear before it on Thursday to find an immediate as well as longterm solution to the water problem in P