1. 2005-06 National Family Health Survey (NFHS-3)
Environmental Health

2. Contents Sources of Drinking Water Toilet Facilities
Disposal of Children’s Stools
Type of Fuel Used for Cooking
Residential Crowding

3. Percentage of HH by Improved Source of Drinking Water
According to WHO/UNICEF an improved source of drinking water includes water piped into dwelling/yard/plot, water available from public tap or stand pipe or a tube well or borehole, or a protected well or spring

5. Percentage of HH by Source of Drinking Water

6. Time to Obtain Drinking Water

7. Toilet Facility by Residence
RURAL
URBAN
Improved toilet facilities include toilet facilities with a flush, or a pour flush that is connected to a sewer system, septic tank or pit latrine, a ventilated improved pit (VIP) latrine, a bio gas latrine, a pit latrine with slab and twin pit, composting toilet.

9. Percent of HH Having no Toilet Facilities

10. Manner of Disposal of Child’s Stools
Note: Percent adds to more than 100 due to rounding

11. Proportion of HH by Type of Fuel
NFHS-2
NFHS-1
NFHS-3

13. Persons Per Room Used for Sleeping
NFHS-1
NFHS-2
NFHS-3

14. How realistic is it that water and sanitation related MGD goals will be met?
Access to an improved water source: Given the progress in the past one and a half decades, there is an excellent possibility that this target will be met.
However, increasing access to improved sanitation needs an urgent programmatic response.
Needed are area specific strategies in different states with innovative messages focusing on adverse health implications of unsafe ways of disposing children’s stools and importance of cooking under a chimney.

15. Thank You!