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This paper concerns for the design of rural water distribution systems in developing countries. Most of population of India is staying in rural area. At end of nineteen century community is not getting water at their resident in the village. But water is basic need of human being and it is directly effect on human health. Indian government is decided to provide safe, regular and adequate water to the community at their resident. This paper is helpful to water supply engineers are facing the problem of designing new distribution network in haphazard developed rural area. For designing of best economical water distribution system LOOP version software is used with a case study. Design procedure satisfied all constraints with a minimum total cost. The constraints include residual nodal pressure, velocity of flow in pipe, pipe material, reservoir level, peak factor and available commercial pipe diameters. In investigation, it is found that water distribution network cost occupied almost 70% of the total cost of water supply system. Extensive research has been done to minimize cost through optimization in design of water distribution network. In addition to the simulation tool, optimization techniques to identify the least cost design of distribution systems, while achieving the most equitable distribution of water have been developed.