The study, commissioned in 2008 by WaterAid India, carries an independent qualitative assessment of Government of India’s Total Sanitation Campaign (TSC) launched in 1999. The primary qualitative data generated during field visits to 40 GPs in 20 blocks across 10 districts of 5 states (2 each from a state) in India. Study states included Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Haryana, Karnataka, and Tripura.

The National Survey of Rural Community Water Supplies was carried out on behalf of United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) India by the Centre for Symbiosis of Technology, Environment and Management (STEM), Bangalore in 2000. The study conducted by STEM covered the rural areas of nine states, namely, Andhra Pradesh, Bihar, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Orissa, Rajasthan, Tamil Nadu and Uttar Pradesh. This paper discusses the National Survey of Rural Community Water Supplies conducted in rural areas of nine major states of India.

“Women's collective makes sanitation programme a success in Bihar” has been written Alok Kumar in India Infrastructure Report, published in 2007 by United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF). This case study is the initiative of UNICEF to build up a strategic partnership with the Mahila Samakhya a forum of 2191 women’s self-help groups to enhance sanitation and hygiene in 10 districts of Bihar under the Total Sanitation Campaign (TSC).