Provisioning of 24x7 Water Supply through Ppp: A Narrative of Ilkal Town in Karnataka

Abstract

Nayanatara S. Nayak, Narayan Billava, Emily Kumpel, Ayse Ercumen and Zachary Burt

Ensuring the availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all is one of the important goals of SDG, 2030. Public–Private –Partnership (PPP) in 24x7 water supply is aimed at bringing efficiency through technical expertise and financial support to sustain the project further on self-financing, based on user charges and achieved through the reduction in non-revenue water. It is considered the bench mark for better quality of life and improved health status due to pressurized water thereby preventing contamination. The objective of this analysis is to examine the process and factors that led to the implementation of 24x7 water supply to the entire Ilkal, one of the few towns in India and the first town in Karnataka reported to be implementing 24x7 under PPP since 2015 and sustaining it. We followed a case study method and included a minimum sample of 30 households surveyed under two regimes and six key informant interviews to collect the relevant information. The project implemented with Asian Development Bank(ADB) loan under the state sponsored North Karnataka Urban Sector Investment Program (NKUSIP) is sustained by levy of user charges and reduction in water losses.