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Drinking water, in adequate quantity and safe quality, is a basic requirement for life and determinant of standard of living of human being. Lack of access to and adequate quantity of safe water supply results in many diseases. Any type of illness, indeed, adversely affects human resource development and productivity, especially poor being worst sufferer. governments attempt to provide for adequate and safe drinking water provision for all households, supply and demand side factors of water supply determine the level of services available to people. Majority of these factors, being environmental in nature, increase with pollution, degradation and depletion of resources such as water and land limiting water supply provision and raising delivery cost. Present paper in this context examines the nature of environmental problems, causes and impacts in drinking water supply sector of Karnataka and concludes with some suggestions for problem rectification.