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The objective of the vetting guidelines is to ensure that all projects in the sector do not, at least, contradict or work against any of the guiding principles that the government has adopted for the sector. The projects should include not only the government-sponsored ones but the donor-funded and NGO-implemented projects as well. The privately planned, funded, and implemented projects and initiatives would be outside the review of these guidelines. The original intent of the vetting guidelines was to ensure that no project runs counter to any of the national policy principles but the current concerns in the sector extend beyond only the policy principles. The Sector Development Programme (SDP), arsenic contamination of groundwater, the challenge of achieving 100% sanitation coverage by 2013, and the possible impact of climate change can be figured in the revised vetting guidelines.