Appropriate Technology:

Water supply schemes are considered community welfare schemes, more or less a government responsibility throughout the world. In the context of increasing financial constraints and fund crunching, governments or municipal corporations are finding it more and more difficult to wholly sponsor or heavily subsidise such schemes. In addition they are bound to supply the water to economical and weaker sections of the society with little or no revenue return. It is imperative that new and innovative funding schemes are developed. It is also essential at the same time to minimise the cost of scheme by using appropriate technology while planning and designing such schemes.

While, not compromising the quality, the appropriate technology tries cost optimisation by using the simple plants, locally available technology and labour, with minimum energy requirement. Such plants can be easily constructed and maintained by local human resources. By avoiding too much automation, such technologies reduce complexity of operation. Any fault or damage, if occurs during operation, can be repaired locally.