Not many are assured by this given the scale of the task unfinished. Consider the following, as per the CAG’s investigation:

• Of the 1,971 villages which did not have clean drinking water by December 2004, 868 still remain deficient

• 87 completed schemes remained non-functional for want of electricity connection. Some of these schemes were completed almost three years ago

• Of the 148 schemes approved for the period 2002-06 at a cost of Rs 14.68 crore, only 25 were completed at a cost of Rs 2.34 crore till July 2007

• As against a target of testing 1.62 lakh water samples, just a fifth was tested in seven laboratories in Haryana. Of these, 14% were found to be unfit for drinking

• In the fluoride-affected districts of Narnaul and Rewari, the shortfall in collection of samples was 96% and 88% respectively.

• As per Health Department figures, of the 35,671 water samples checked, 11661, almost a third, failed purity tests

• Between 2005-07, 1613 villages were included in water supply schemes. But of these 510 were those villages that were not deficient in water supply.