Using training Appropriately

It's good that the top officials are trained on the issues pertaining to Water supply, for which per say, India is well off. There are three important considerations where we need to be thoughtful: 1. With adequate water supply figure on record in India, still the country is struggling for 'safe' water supply and for this matter, even in metros no household that even has middle to low income will not drink the 'tap' water directly from municipal supplied water and you will find an RO (reverse osmosis) filtration system fitted in each house hold in these cities. So, we can think of about rural households and their water supplies. 2. The water supply figures shown in the statistics, for that matter even JMP data can not be considered correct and this has also been confirmed from many studies that the water availability and accessibility is still a major issue in India and that's not adequately served. 3. What ever claims have been made on 'decentralized' governance in water supply sector, it's hardly 10% of the rural water supplied are being maintained by the communities themselves, and for that purpose, many reform projects have failed in the past, those could generate high level consultants in water supply sector, but, poor level of sustaining local governance system in rural India. Therefore, the operation and maintenance of water supply in India is a big question.

Given this, it would have been pertinent that, these officials are trained on issues related to decentralized governance system in Drinking water supply, and could have been taken to such country or area where it's successful, that is the big question I suppose!