Federation of Bangladesh Rural Pipe Water Supply Association has brought remarkable changes in the life-style of the respective villagers, who are availing safe, running pipe-water which is not yet thinkable or common in rural Bangladesh and getting rid of arsenicosis. It is possible to replicate it in the rural Bangladesh to solve the safe water supply crisis.
Fine-tuning safety, cost-effectiveness, social acceptance, user-friendliness, reliability, NGO Forum has an innovative option in the context of rural Bangladesh namely Pipe-water Supply Scheme especially in acutely arsenic affected villages of Bangladesh. Nilkanda in Sonargaon under Narayanganj and Putia in Daudkandi under Comilla districts are two such villages respectively using sources like Deep Tubewell, Rain-water Harvesting System and Dug-well. Accumulated water from the source in an overhead tank has been distributed through pipeline network by stand-posts. The schemes have been proven feasible both technically and socio-economically.