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“Water is the source of happi-
ness, energy, health and piety,
and is life giving as mother!”

About the Theme

The quality of life and well-being of citizens is directly Theme and SDGs
dependent on having access to safe and adequate water supply
Theme 4 directly affects the following goals that are impacted
throughout the year at the individual household level. The SDG
or dependent on this theme. This understanding of inter linkages
– Goal 6, relates to ensuring availability and sustainable
among the goals and between the targets is crucial for integrated
management of water and sanitation for all. The responsibility
governance and policy coherence for delivering on this theme
of providing water supply in the villages is devolved to Gram
Panchayats (GPs) under schedule XI of the Constitution of 1.SDG 1 Poverty affects access to water and lack of
India. Gram Panchayats have an important role to play in adequate water in dry land farming leads to low incomes of the
successful implementation of the program for making the farmers and landless labourers dependent on agriculture
village water sufficient villages by creating pipe network for 2.SDG 2 connecting water to agricultural productivity and
giving house tap connections, construction of water harvesting sustainable food production systems
structures, water recycling together with maintenance of
3.SDG 3 Water borne diseases and diseases and deaths due
assets like hand pumps etc. The Ministry of Panchayati Raj has
to water and soil pollution
in the thematic approach to localization of SDGs at grass-root
level, Water Sufficient Village as the Theme 4. 4.SDG 4 Educating the children on WASH practices and
through them reaching the community

Aapo hishtha mayo bhuvastaa na urje dadhaatana; mahe ranaaya cakshase;
shivatamo rasastasya bhaajayateh nah; ushatiiriva maatarah – rg ved

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Theme 4: Water Sufficient Village