Potential Impact of JJM

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The document focuses on the potential health impact of the Jal Jeevan Mission, particularly the relationship between safe drinking water and child mortality. It highlights the Mission’s objective of providing safe and adequate drinking water through individual household tap connections to rural households. The underlying evidence indicates that expanding access to safe water can reduce exposure to diarrhoeal disease and contribute to reductions in under-five mortality. The analysis uses evidence from water-treatment interventions and applies assumptions regarding baseline access to safe water, mortality differences between households with and without safe water, and treatment effectiveness. It estimates that successful delivery of safe water through JJM could prevent around 1,36,000 under-five deaths annually under the study’s assumptions. A key message is that infrastructure provision must be accompanied by effective water-quality management. Piped water needs to remain free from microbiological contamination, and treatment closer to the point of use may be relevant where water pressure or distribution conditions create contamination risks. The document therefore supports a broader understanding of JJM as a public-health intervention as well as a drinking-water infrastructure programme.