Presence Of Water Village Essay

From the above data, it can be observed that industry is the largest consumer of water. Such large scale industrial use of water raises serious problems of water quality. Raw sewage coming from domestic sources has crossed the acceptable safe limits for both drinking and bathing, making water quality the key issue in water consumption. While water scarcity and shortage are perennial problems in most developed countries, industrially advanced nations can afford to buy water and find a way out through use of very costly energy and technology investments. They can even resort to generate fresh water from sea water by desalination methods. But, the developing countries, such as India, which are already facing poverty and huge amounts of debt, have no

Selection criteria for control village

Awaniya village of Bhavnagar district was chosen as the control village as it satisfied the following criteria:

• Farmers practice freshwater irrigation.

• They have never irrigated their fields using wastewater in the past.

• They consume freshwater irrigated crops and vegetables grown either in their own fields or purchased from the market.

• The socio-economic status of farmers in awaniya is same as that of Ruwa. This ensured that the samples selected for analysis have similar attributes and are comparable.

• Presence of PHC is desirable.

After finalizing on the villages, non probability sampling technique- snowball sampling (select one, survey him and later, ask him for the details of the next desired sample) was done to select the respondents. Snowballing method was used as any list of village residents was not available to perform random sampling or clustering. Survey method was used to generate responses from the selected villagers through a predesigned questionnaire.

Criteria for selection of respondent in treatment group

• He should be irrigating with wastewater for more than 20