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The unmonitored individual water-mining poses threat to environment. Further'in urban sprawl poor sanitation results in contamination of groundwater. The both processes together have an adverse impact on the vulnerable section of society, who are not extracting resource (water), because of incapability to invest and they only will be victims, when the quallty deteriorate to the extent of unusable resource because of high expected price of rare commodity'Based on the survey of 240 households in susuwahi, the paper discusses household's adaptation stategies in meeting the demand of water in light of the two outlined conditions. The existing private arrangement 1b1 1ry41s1 in the sprawl driven by multiple factors: availability of water; almost zero operational cost and the issue of identity. In such situation, political ecology approach can be of vital use to analyze the systems of political and economic conhol over environmental resources, existing power relation that define such control and also socio-political and environmental implications inwater-richregion'