Water

Gwalior City suffers from low water supply service coverage, and intermittent supply. The Gwalior City Water Corporation unaccounted-for-water is at a high 64 percent. Conflicting water use—between a growing city population with its accompanying industries and rural communities whose livelihoods are dependent on river flows and catchment areas—have created considerable political tension among stakeholders.

The water governance problem is further complicated by poor decision-making processes, a lack of transparency between and among agencies, and the lack of regulation in water use. Soft measures to overcome severe water shortages and respond to political pressures have led to poor water service delivery at low cost.

This PDA mobilized various stakeholder groups and facilitated a multi-stakeholder dialogue process to come up with least contentious solutions for the intensive use of water by both rural and urban constituencies.

• Established federation or network of Resident Welfare Associations (RWAs)
• Establishment of MSP for urban water supply comprising the public sector, private sector, and civil society
• Gender-balanced representation in MSP and RWAs

• Final Report (June 2007) [ PDF ]
• Midterm Report (January 2007) [ PDF ]
• Inception Report (August 2006) [ PDF ]
• Proposal (January 2006) [ PDF ]