India - Information on Common Property Resources and Village Facilities: NSS 54th Round, Schedule 3.3, January 1998 - June 1998

All common water resources of potable water, other than those covered under tubewells and (dug) wells (in Items 1.1 & 1.2) will be considered for this item. It is to be noted that while enumerating the sources, a system in its entirety will be counted as one source. Moreover, a source of water will be considered for this item only if it is exclusively, or at least mainly, reserved for drawing drinking water.

Care should be taken to enumerate community managed traditional systems of potable water harvesting like kundis, rooftop harvesting structures, ponds, tanks dugwells, stepwells, springs & streams that are quite commonly used as sources of drinking water.