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BHARASAR VILLAGE
UTILIZES DEWATS FOR
SUSTAINABLE GWM
n a remarkable example of public- line, the greywater was discharged into the
private partnership towards achieving open. Additionally, the greywater from the
IODF Plus status, under SBM-G Phase-II, remaining 474 households was discharged
Bharasar village in Kutch District, Gujarat, into a stream outside the village, polluting
is successfully managing greywater the water body.
sustainably using the DEWATS technology.
Issue: The Sarpanch and PRI members
Background: Under JJM, Bharasar had been identified the need to manage solid and
providing tap water connections and a liquid waste at village level while preparing
minimum supply of 55 litres per capita to its the VSP for SBM-G Phase-II implementation.
624 households, with the total population Bharasar made efforts to repair and
being 4,026. However, the village faced construct the drainage system to manage
a significant challenge as around 70 per greywater. However, it was not a permanent
cent of the water supplied to households solution. In search of an appropriate
was being converted into greywater, which technology to address the village’s GWM
was either flowing into the open spaces needs, the Sarpanch requested technical
or contaminating water bodies. This led to assistance of SBM-G initiative in the District.
environmental and health risks, including
Strategy: At that time, UNICEF and PriMove
vector-borne diseases.
provided handholding and capacity building
The absence of a greywater treatment support to PRIs and community leaders
system at the village level was a pressing on SLWM according to SBM-G Phase-II
issue. Although wastewater from 150 guidelines, to bring about visual cleanliness
households was connected to a drainage to villages.
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