Water Champion Salma Sadikha: When Water Connection Barriers Disappear
06.28 2007 08:49
Bangalore Water Supply and Sewerage Board (BWSSB) Social Development Specialist Salma Sadikha believes that the pro-poor initiative of the Bangalore Water Supply and Sewerage Board has opened the eyes of the utility to the fact that the urban poor population can be connected to the system, can contribute to capital costs through connection fees, and can help minimize losses—all that's needed is to make water affordable to them.
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Social Development Specialist Salma Sadikha believes that the pro-poor initiative of the Bangalore Water Supply and Sewerage Board
Pro-poor means it is anti - rich is not ?
Urban poor are connected to the water supply by paying connecting fees. Since the water is the basic need of human , why water is not being termed as the basic right of human. If this is achieved then no government should collect fees for supplying the vital need of human , water .
has opened the eyes of the utility to the fact that the urban poor population can be connected to the system, can contribute to capital costs through connection fees, and can help minimize losses—all that's needed is to make water affordable to them.
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