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Abstract: Present study is an approach to socio economic and domestic consumptions, especially concentration on selected slums in greater Visakhapatnam city of Andhra Pradesh state. Slums are an urban phenomenon which comes into existence on account of industrialization in and around cities thereby attracting in migration of population from country side. Though slums are a rich source of un-skilled and semi-skilled manpower, they tend to result in burden on the existing civic amenities. India's urbanization is often termed as over urbanization, pseudo- urbanization. The big cities attained inordinately large population size leading to virtual collapse in the urban services and followed by basic problems in the field of housing, slum, water, infrastructure, quality of life etc. Slum dwellers often lack adequate access to clean water and sanitation facilities. Water supplies may be unreliable, expensive or contaminated.. The lack of adequate sanitation in slums results in the pollution of groundwater, water sources and coastlines. The environmental impact of poor sanitation in unplanned urban settlements may be hidden in statistics that consider access to improved sanitation.