What is water poverty index and where can I get data to calculate one for India?

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What is water poverty index and where can i get data to calculate one for India?

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  1. Puja, I guess Central Water Commission (Organizers of India Water Week) makes policies about water pricing in India. You can read this document published by them about water pricing in Indiahttp://bit.ly/1EOJean Hope this helps you. when done with your poverty index calculation, do share results with us..:)

  2. Thanks Vishakha for sharing data. It will help me, I also want some data about water pricing in India. Any idea where I can find it? I will try search on other portal like India water portal too.

  3. Hello I think that one cannot calculate the poverty of water. Why? The drinking water before being a drinking water passes by a circuit to multiple directions impossible to enumerate. It is necessary more to go in the direction of the pollution which it contains or which it can contain.

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    1. Actualy poverty index is a tool to help design water management for the community. It is primarily designed for use at the community level to enable more holistic water-resource assessments on a site-specific basis. It can however be applied at different scales to suit different needs. One of the motivations to design such a tool is also an attempt to move away from the conventional, purely deterministic, approaches to water assessment, relying primarily on models and large-scale data. So, yes water poverty is needed to measure to plan better and understand the scope of work.

  4. The Water Poverty Index is a new holistic water management tool thatis mainly relevant at the community level water availability. WPI is derived from the weighted average of the five components at required location, 1. Resources - The physical availability of surface and ground water, taking account of the variability and quality of the resource as well as the total amount of water. 2. Access - The extent of access to water for human use, accounting for not only the distance to a safe source, but the time needed for domestic water collection, and other significant factors. 3. Capacity - The effectiveness of people’s ability to manage water. Capacity is interpreted in the sense of income to allow purchase of improved water, and education and health which interact with income and indicate a capacity to lobby for andmanage a water supply. 4. Use - The ways in which water is used for different purposes; it includes domestic, agricultural and industrial use. 5. Environment - An evaluation of environmental integrity related to water and of ecosystem goods and services from aquatic habitats in the area. Some of the data you will require is Water availability status in India http://www.unicef.org/india/Final_Report.pdf Per Capita Water Availability http://pib.nic.in/newsite/erelease.aspx?relid=82676 Safe drinking water availability http://data.gov.in/keywords/safe-drinking-water