Table 2.
Costs of improving water services from unimproved or limited to basic or advanced
| Facility | Service-level intervention* | Capital cost (95% CI) | Recurrent cost (95% CI) | ||
| Thousand INR | Thousand US$ | Thousand INR | Thousand US$ | ||
| PHC | Unimproved or limited to basic | 398 (166 to 630) | 5.82 (2.42 to 9.21) | 122 (86 to 157) | 1.78 (1.26 to 2.29) |
| Basic to advanced | 188 (151 to 224) | 2.74 (2.20 to 3.28) | 30 (28 to 32) | 0.43 (0.41 to 0.46) | |
| CHC | Unimproved or limited to basic | 602 (473 to 731) | 8.80 (6.92 to 10.68) | 239 (180 to 298) | 3.49 (2.63 to 4.35) |
| Basic to advanced | 239 (180 to 298) | 3.49 (2.63 to 4.35) | 67 (36 to 99) | 0.98 (0.52 to 1.44) | |
| DH | Unimproved or limited to basic | 4868 (3689 to 6048) | 71.18 (53.94 to 88.43) | 720 (549 to 891) | 10.53 (8.03 to 13.03) |
| Basic to advanced | 2427 (1135 to 3719) | 35.49 (16.60 to 54.38) | 769 (205 to 1333) | 11.24 (2.99 to 19.49) | |
| MC | Unimproved or limited to basic | 9460 (8498 to 10 422) | 138.33 (124.26 to 152.40) | 1185 (1031 to 1338) | 17.32 (15.08 to 19.56) |
| Basic to advanced | 1581 (1304 to 1859) | 23.12 (19.07 to 27.18) | 377 (327 to 428) | 5.52 (4.78 to 6.26) | |
*Basic service includes piped potable water, water from a tube well/borehole or vended water on premise; advanced service includes a water distribution system piped into the facility. All cost inputs for basic water service and for advanced water service were combined at the facility level and then averaged across facilities to obtain the mean cost across surveyed facilities.
CHC, community health centre; DH, district hospital; INR, Indian rupee; MC, medical college; PHC, primary health centre.