Rehabilitation of existing but inefficient or deteriorated water supply systems, together with planning and construction of new systems, can expand access to safe drinking water.

Water Supply

With the help of partners, it was also seeking to ensure a supply of safe drinking water, rehabilitate rural deep water wells and bring about change in consumer behaviour.

Point of use household water treatment systems, together with safe water storage, can provide safe drinking water from unsafe water sources.

Electricity and water supply

IWMI contributed to the Copenhagen Consensus project by submitting proposals highlighting the lack of access to safe and affordable domestic water supply and sanitation and water for productive purposes for the rural poor.

The people who contributed to this drop by delivering effective basic health care, building a supply of safe water, or immunizing children against measles remain largely unknown.

Promoting safe and sustainable water supplies through improved water resources management

Water Supply and Sanitation Collaborative Council

They also have sanitation and safe drinking water.

The supply of water was derived from a natural head of water, the water mains, or a specialised high pressure water supply such as that provided by the London Hydraulic Power Company.

The Expert Group discussed at length options to improve the reporting system on DDT and compared the experiences from similar data collection activities, such as the reporting on the access to safe drinking water supply and basic sanitation that ensued from the International Decade for Drinking Water Supply and Sanitation (1981 1990).

(i) Support to water supply and sanitation services

Joint Monitoring Programme on water supply and sanitation

Sami had to travel miles to get safe drinking water.

Is it possible to ensure an adequate supply of safe blood once and for all?

In Republika Srpska, 51.4 per cent of households are linked to city water supply, 27.7 per cent to local water supply, while wells are the drinking water source for 13.45 per cent of households.

Breaks in water supply systems are very often, therefore the international water quality cannot be reached.

The gains made in water supply coverage are increasingly threatened.

Improving access to safe drinking water in urban and rural areas

These priorities include water scarcity and pollution sanitation, safe drinking water and health gender mainstreaming in water and sanitation integrated water resources management transboundary water issues and disaster reduction.

The great aquifers that supply water for irrigation are being depleted.

Palestinian towns and villages faced severe problems with the water supply.

Economic incentives for efficient water use, for example, could be an integral part of water supply expansion projects.

The representative of Bangladesh praised the evaluation of his country's rural hygiene, sanitation and water supply project, describing the steady focus of UNICEF on fresh water supply, sanitation and hygiene facilities.

Ecosystem health is critical to the quantity and quality of water supply.

For, behold, the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, takes away from Jerusalem and from Judah supply and support, the whole supply of bread, and the whole supply of water

Wells and cisterns can be put in place to ensure safe drinking water.

Even when the water source itself is safe, water used for drinking and cooking is often contaminated because of poor water handling practices and unsafe storage.

In Bangladesh, arsenic mitigation efforts in 45 districts led to full coverage with safe water, coupled with rigourous water quality surveillance.

Sector coverage Some water utilities provide only water supply services, while sewerage is under the responsibility of a different entity.

The Government's village water supply programme was in full swing and would eventually provide every village with a water pump.

Water supply is combined in a section with some environmental activities and services.

There is presently no central electricity or piped water supply anywhere in Liberia.

Measures taken to improve drinking water facilities included establishing the drinking water supply through a network of piped systems, installing a water reservoir, providing mobile and fixed water tanks and testing drinking water.

Population in some rural areas have no access to potable water, and its supply is provided by mean of water tankers.

Water supply quality may be estimated by the epidemiological situation in respect to some water related diseases, primarily intestinal contagious diseases.

They are the ones responsible for providing safe water, garbage collection, safe housing, infrastructure, upgraded slums, protection from disasters, and emergency services when catastrophes hit.

Syrian citizens in the Golan controlled only 20 per cent of the water supply.

The UNDP Water Governance Programme and the World Bank's Water and Sanitation Programme are working together to develop rural and urban initiatives in water supply and sanitation.

Thus, the availability of safe drinking water is now to be enshrined as a right.

There, only 28 of the population uses water for household needs from a safe source.

That is why the water supply problem is a priority in the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, where some estimates indicate that about 50 per cent of the population is linked to the water supply system.

On the website Faltou Água (Water was missing), a collaborative map shows locations where users have reported interruptions to their water supply.

Water supply service quality has many dimensions continuity water quality pressure and the degree of responsiveness of service providers to customer complaints.