Potable water

The initial report spoke of an inadequate supply of potable water and a lack of sewerage systems, and although it had been stated that the situation had improved with the provision of potable water to most rural areas, it was not clear how many people still lacked a supply of potable water and a system of sewerage.

Consequently, poverty alleviation and increasing food production and access to potable water supply systems emerged as important development priority areas.

Potable water in Syrian coastal cliffs.

The potable water sector LL 30,515,000

Water obtained from potable water supply schemes through house connections, yard taps, public standpipes, boreholes with handpumps and protected dug wells are defined as sources of safe drinking water.

Radiological control of food and potable water

Potable water was tested for total beta activity.

The Poverty Reduction Strategy paper has outlined the development and passage of the Republic of Tajikistan law on drinking water and potable water supply, which will provide the legal basis for the legal and regulatory governance of water use issues.

Water Supply

Water supply

312. The Water Supply Act is supplemented by executive orders governing water intake, water supplies, groundwater drilling, water quality, supervision of water supply facilities and expropriation for water supply facilities.

The transactions covered by the Guide may be used for the private financing of various types of facilities, including, for example, power generation plants, facilities for treatment of waste water or supply of potable water, toll roads, railways, airports, telecommunication networks.

Ms. Tan asked what the Government intended to do to expedite access in the rural areas to the supply of potable water, the sewerage system and public transport, and within what time frame.

Also, appropriate housing and potable water policies were essential for poverty eradication and environmental protection.

Likewise, year round access to potable water allowed the Xade population to experiment with cultivation.

That only 50 per cent of people in rural areas have access to potable water.

Additional requirements of 5,900 were due to higher expenditures incurred for maintenance services such as general maintenance, cleaning services, garbage collection, rodent extermination, cleaning of septic systems and the supply of non potable water.

Electricity and water supply

Water supply and sanitation

(c) Water supply of water, chlorine and cisterns

All 64 settlements are provided with potable water for domestic consumption and other uses by the communities.

3) supply of portable water

(e) Public drinking water supply

6. Water supply and sanitation

Water supply for San Pancrazio

E. Water supply and sanitation

(d) Water supply and sanitation

There goes our water supply.

Water Supply and Sanitation Collaborative Council

Improving access to drinking water supply

c) power and water supply facilities,

Water supply systems for smaller communities

The living conditions of the Ivorian population, particularly in the west and the north, continue to worsen, with significant interruptions in the supply of potable water in both rural and urban areas, and diminishing access to basic health care.

Again, modest gains have also been made in the provision of potable drinking water to the populace, as evidenced by the fact that the percentage of the population with access to potable water increased from 37 per cent in 2000 to 44 per cent in 2002.

Potable oxygen bottles

Improving access to drinking water supply 7

Rehabilitation of water supply, Dbayeh, Lebanon (Germany)

Water supply problems are being resolved in regional Drinking Water 2010 programmes.

Sectoral theme Fresh water, including clean and safe water supply and sanitation

In many developing countries there is still a strong urban bias in access to potable water, adequate sanitation and health clinics.

(i) Support to water supply and sanitation services

Joint Monitoring Programme on water supply and sanitation

access of everyone to drinking water supply and

Sustainable Water Supply Development in the African Sahel