There are 40 villages in a district where the government has made no provision for drinking water. These villagers met and considered many methods of forcing the government to respond to their need.

Which of these is not a democratic method?

Paying money to the government officials  to get water is not a democratic method, it is case of corruption and exploitation of the people by the government official, democratic method for getting drinking water for the village would be to enforce right to life by claiming it before the court of law or making government understand the issue by creating widescale awareness in the masses to create public pressure and also by making collective decisions during elections to assert the importance of the issue by voting accordingly.