The thesis is organized into ten chapters. Chapter 1 focuses on the background of the study.
Chapter 2 presents a general overview of the relevant literature relating to water supply, various water policies, five year plans, legislative provisions, urban water supply conditions and existing
groundwater contamination in India. This chapter also discusses the shift in Indian government policies on water supply schemes from groundwater to surface water along with the dicussion on the various success and failure stories of water supply projects in India and abroad. The critical factors affecting success of water supply projects have also been explored with detailed discussion on how to enhance public paraticipaton in such projects through review of theories of public participation, and principles of public participation. Chapter 3 focuses on the aim and objectives of the study and the manner in which the thesis has been organised. The research methodology adopted for the study along with the need and justification for adopting the current research methodology is the focus of Chapter 4. Chapter 5 presents the investigation on the rationale of public opposition to the Guwahati city water supply project. The public perception on household groundwater source and their willingness to procure water obtained through a questionnaire survey is presented in this chapter along with the statistical basis for estimation of sample size to ensure true representation. Chapter 6 focuses on the study that had been conducted to explore the existing groundwater quality in the study area and document the health hazards among the common public through collection of total of 1568 number of samples. Chapter 7 presents the findings on how public willingness to procure changes when they are made aware about the quality of their groundwater. Furthermore, extension of this analysis with respect to various factors such as age, gender, level of education, usage of filter, source of drinking water and ownership in study area is also disccused in detail in this chapter. Finally, the discussion on the logistic regression model that has been developed to identify the influencing factors on willingness to procure water is presented in the latter part of this chapter. Chapter 8 focuses on development of framework for public participation in water supply project by considering various critical success factors obtained from primary and secondary data. The development of this framework has been influenced by various theories and principles of public participation. And, the chapter discusses their theoretical framework along with the viewpoints of the expert on the relevancy of this framework. Chapter 9 focuses on the validation of the developed framework. The developed framework was validated through face to face survey approach using six validation aspects i.e., degree of appropriateness, objectivity, replicability, practicability, reliability, and suitability for water supply projects/schemes. Finally, Chapter 10 outlines the major findings, limitations, and recommendations for further research directions.
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