Usage of water and methods of storage at households: A comparative analysis of demo zones in hubballi-dharwad city of Karnataka State

The year 2005 marked the beginning of the “International Decade for Action: Water for Life” and renewed effort to achieve the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) to reduce by half the proportion of the world's population without sustainable access to safe drinking water and sanitation. It is estimated by World Health Organization (WHO) and United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF) that 1.1 billion people lack access to improved water supplies and 2.6 billion people lack adequate sanitation. Therefore, the present paper focuses on the usage of water and methods of storage at households. This paper consists only four wards which are considered as demo zones of the twin city of Hubballi-Dharwad City in Karnataka State. Smart Cities like Hubballi-Dharwad should make every effort to attain the world-class benchmark for city services, such as high frequency mass transit, with a residential density of 175 persons per hectare (PPH), 100 per cent household access to 24x7 water supply.