Abstract
Official journal of the Postgraduate Institute of Agriculture, University of Peradeniya. Tropical Agricultural Research publishes complete accounts of research of outstanding significance, together with critical review articles on all aspects of agriculture including agronomy and crop production, horticulture, agricultural biology, food and nutrition, soil and water resource management, agricultural engineering, agricultural economics, animal science, biotechnology, plant protection, genetics and plant breeding.Tropical Agricultural Research is now indexed in DOAJ.
Highlights
Access to water resource is an uninhibited right of the community
The average sustainability score across 20 schemes is 7.18 implying that schemes are performing well on 71.8 % of the technical, institutional and social aspects
The community water supply projects to provide water to rural area of Kandy district have been a success since 14 out of 20 schemes were found to be sustainable indicating that the strategies followed during the project implementation have succeeded
Summary
Access to water resource is an uninhibited right of the community With this in mind, the United Nations Millennium Development Goals (MDG) aims to reduce the proportion of people without sustainable access to safe drinking water and basic sanitation by 50 % by year 2015 (WHO, 2010). By the year 2009, 84.8 % of the population of the country had access to safe drinking water and 35 % had the access to pipe borne water (Central Bank, 2009). Even though water supply and sanitation coverage has increased in many developing countries including Sri Lanka, there is an uneven progress between urban and rural areas (Hutton & Bartram, 2008 & World Bank, 1998). According to World Health Organization (WHO, 2010) 1.6 million deaths per year are attributed to the use of unsafe water
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