Guidelines for Drinking Water Safety Planning for West Bengal

By Asian Development Bank

Water safety planning is considered an international best practice for assessing and managing public health risks from drinking water supply systems. Under the West Bengal Drinking Water Sector Improvement Project and in close collaboration with the World Health Organization, the Asian Development Bank assisted in developing these water safety planning guidelines for the state of West Bengal. This document offers practical guidance for taking a water safety planning approach to bulk water supply systems, particularly in developing and implementing the stages of rural drinking water delivery service schemes in India and elsewhere.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Asian Development Bank
• Release date: Dec 1, 2020
• ISBN: 9789292625283

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GUIDELINES FOR DRINKING WATER SAFETY PLANNING FOR WEST BENGAL

DECEMBER 2020

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ISBN 978-92-9262-527-6 (print); 978-92-9262-528-3 (electronic); 978-92-9262-529-0 (ebook)

Publication Stock No. TIM200370-2

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.22617/TIM200370-2

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On the cover: Students of Safique Ahmed Girls High School in Haroa, 24 North Parganas, West Bengal fill their water bottles from the school’s taps and hand pump; and Kalpana Manna (inset photo), a resident of Kalicharanpur Village, Purba Medinipur, West Bengal, now has easy access to drinking water (photo by Amit Verma/ADB).

All photos used in this publication are by Amit Verma for ADB and feature project beneficiaries and stakeholders of the ADB-supported West Bengal Drinking Water Sector Improvement Project.

CONTENTS

TABLES AND FIGURE

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

These guidelines for drinking water safety planning were developed for West Bengal by the Public Health Engineering Department (PHED) of the state, with support from the Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the World Health Organization (WHO), under the West Bengal Drinking Water Sector Improvement Project (WBDWSIP).

Guideline preparation was led and managed by the following individuals and teams:

At the PHED: Manoj Pant, principal secretary, PHED; Debasish Bandyopadhyay, project director, WBDWSIP; Animesh Bhattacharya and Ajoy Kundu, chief engineers, PHED; and officials of the WBDWSIP project management and implementation units.

At ADB: Neeta Pokhrel and Luca Di Mario of the South Asia Urban and Water Division (SAUW), with overall guidance from SAUW Director, Norio Saito; inputs from Saswati G. Beliappa, Saugata Dasgupta, and Sourav Majumder; and assistance from Elvie Jane Tirano. Coral P. Fernandez-Illescas of the Water Sector Group, Sustainable Development and Climate Change Department (SDCC), served as peer reviewer.

At WHO: Jennifer De France and Kate Medlicott.

The preparatory team of consultants was led by Raquel Mendes, with Prof. Achinta K. Sengupta, Prof. Arunabha Majumder, and Hans Enggrob as members.

ABBREVIATIONS

The residents of Kalicharanpur are also beneficiaries of the new drinking water project in West Bengal, the West Bengal Drinking Water Sector Improvement Project. ADB and the Government of India signed in November 2018 a $240 million loan and a $5 million grant and technical assistance to provide safe and sustainable drinking water to about 2.6 million