New Delhi, Nov. 22 -- : Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday said that rural water supply projects are making the lives of women easier and added that it is also contributing to the improvement in the health of needy families in these regions.

"The lives of our mothers and sisters are getting easier with water supply reaching their homes via taps under the Jan Jeevan Mission. A major benefit of this has also been on the health of needy families. It is also reducing many diseases caused by dirty water," Modi said after laying the foundation stone of rural drinking water supply projects in Mirzapur and Sonbhadra districts in Uttar Pradesh.

He said when water is supplied to thousands of villages of Vindhyanchal via pipes, it will also impr...