A Case Study: Water Quality in NSS-Adopted Village Mendora in Bhopal

Dr. Laxmi Barelia, Dr. Pooja Gupta

Abstract: Water is the essential element of life for human as well as other creatures on the earth. Quality water is now a luxury as it has become very scare. Scarcity of quality water is due to ongoing water pollution which have been further degraded with the industrial revolution and caused a negative externality. In this paper, first section deals with basics of water, second section talks about review of literature, third and fourth section deals with primary survey of Mendora Village, as primary data and other secondary source of data available in reports, fourth section is the discussion of result and data analysis. Finally in this paper we will propose the way forward as policy inputs so that degrading quality of water will be contained and people of village will have safe and potable drinking water. In conclusion we can replicate the same model in villages those are facing such problems related to water quality.

Keywords: Madhya Pradesh Pollution Control Board, MPPCB, National Service Scheme, NSS, National Commission for Integrated Water Resources Development, NCIWRD, Hepatitis