Safe, adequate and consistence water supply is the basic lIeeds, and esselltial for thernsocioeconomic development of a given society. However, majority of the people ill thernWoreda rural settings still didn't access potable, sufficient alld sustainable water supply.rnThe major causes are poor petformance of developed water supply schemes and limitationrnin the development of new and appropriate water supply schemes. Objectives of this study isrnto assess the relative petformance of rural water supply schemes by assessing the mainrnfactors related to community, financial, technical, institutional amI envirollmental in thernwater supply systems and comparillg the main factors and indicators of the performallce ofrnrural water supply hand pump scheme. A three-stage procedure with both probability andrn. nOli-probability sampling techniques was used to identify sampled water supply schemesrnand household respondents in Debatie Woreda. Six water points and 96 HHs were selectedrnpurposively alld randomly respectively. Cross-sectional design with descriptive allalysis wasrnapplied using different data collectioll methods in 111arcll 20i O. Data were collectedrnthrough house/lOld survey, 6-jocus group discussioll, key illformallt illterview and persollalrnobservation. Both quantitative and qualitative data were collected and used to analyze.rnThe study found that per capita water consumption in a day on the average is 9.6 litters lessrnthan 20 litters (millimum stalldard set by WHO) of potable water. Poor commullityrnparticipation in the stage of plallllillg, low level of women participatioll, weak performallcernof water committee and weak sense of ownership from the commullity. inadequaternfillancial cOlltribution for O&M, poor baseline survey for scheme type selectioll,rnunavailability of spare parts, poor construction quality, lack of trained techniciall amI weakrninstitutiollal support are the maill factors for the poor petformance of water supplyrnhamlpump schemes. The major water supply schemes Itsed by the community arernHDW&MDSW fitted with halldpumps. it was observed that50%0! HD W& 66%of MDSWrnhad failed and the fUllctional schemes are providing with interruptioll. HD W failed due torndepth, water quality and users operatioll and management problems while the failure of SWrnwas mainly due to pump failure and difficulty to operate and mall age at commullity level.rnThe study revealed that HD Ware easy to mailltain and use, low cost, more participatoryrnand ollly possible ill soft ground formatioll but poor water quality, inadequacy Â· andrnseasonality of water supply while MDSW provide the service adequately & quality waterrnsupply but difficult to operate and mailltaill at community level.rnThe study recommend that the illvolvement of the community in all level of water supplyrndevelopment and managemellt, adequate external support for O&A