LUCKNOW: The World Bank has approved a $500 million credit for the Rural Water Supply and Sanitation (RWSS) project in four low income states — UP, Bihar, Jharkhand and Assam. The project, directed towards improving piped water supply and sanitation services through decentralized delivery systems will be confined to the east UP districts, characterized, according to a World Bank report, by high water table and poor drainage. This forms one of the main reasons for the high incidence of water transmitted diseases.

The funding, which relies on Census 2011 data that shows only 31% of the 167 million rural households in India have access to tap water and domestic toilets, also comes with the backing of an internal World Bank report that shows nearly 67% of rural population in India continues to defecate in the open.

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