Work on rural water supply and irrigation increased markedly.

The water programmes are designed to increase the number of clean water sources, primarily in rural areas.

Water Supply

Assuring adequate supplies of clean water for human and animal consumption and agricultural irrigation is essential to rural development and poses a major problem in semi arid and arid areas.

(h) Water supply.

Miltary water supply 42 000

Geological analysis of remote sensing satellite imagery has proved very valuable in locating productive areas for groundwater development for rural water supplies.

Improving rural transport, water supplies and other infrastructure

Sustained urban water supply and sanitation systems are constrained by a lack of human, institutional and financial resources.

51. Thirty two projects for increasing the availability of safe drinking water in rural and peri urban areas were implemented.

There are marked shortages of water and sanitation services in rural areas and in some departments in the country.

(i) Rehabilitation of small scale rural infrastructure (irrigation, water supply, small structures and access) in direct cooperation with rural communities, which determine priorities.

C. Water supply and sanitation . 58 59 10

C. Water supply and sanitation

Small scale water systems are an option for tapping groundwater resources in small and medium sized towns, as well as rural areas.

UNICEF and NGOs were aiming at a further increase in the water supply in the rural areas and shelters for displaced persons.

Spares for water supply equipment 31 300

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

Unemployment in rural areas

Approximately 74 per cent of the water supply is provided by the Guam Waterworks Authority.

Population migration from rural to urban areas and within rural areas and urban areas continues to gather momentum.

Singapore had successfully diversified its water supply sources and had shared its experience with the Maldives, where salt water had contaminated water supplies following the Indian Ocean tsunami.

Power and water supplies were cut off to urban and peri urban areas as a result of the destruction of electricity, water pump and piping networks.

Food safety in rural areas Agro processing Information exchange soils, climate and conservation agriculture.

Improving rural markets

Rural rehabilitation 20.0

(a) Rural areas

Guinea Bissau Water Supply and 5.3 To improve the domestic

The Department carries out technical cooperation for the effective management and monitoring of both rural and urban water supply in developing countries.

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

Article 14 Women in rural areas

This is more so the case in rural areas.

Draft resolution III Improvement of the situation of women in rural areas

With regard to clean water and rural environment, an outstanding success is the National Indicative Programme on Clean Water and Sanitation of rural areas in the periods of 1998 2000 and 2001 2005.

Programme for the Development of Rural Areas

Repeater for rural link 3 6 000 18 000

Wells, particularly on St. Croix, supply the remainder of the freshwater necessary.

Of these, 248,964 (99.4 ) lived in urban areas and 1,384 (0.6 ) in rural areas.

(d) Infrastructure (secondary roads, power supply and key airports)

Rural Health Centers obviously are more concentrated in rural areas (378 with 5636 beds in rural areas compared to 135 with 2250 beds in urban areas).

Proximity of schools, especially in rural areas

(b) Improvement of the situation of women in the rural areas

Examples of other effects include diminishing freshwater supply in many regions, due to extended droughts and as a result of the melting of high altitude glaciers and the decrease in snow cover in mountain areas.

These areas are quite pristine, and there is no pressure to use them for public water supply.

Contamination of water supplies and destruction of rare habitat are also among potential problems.