Women and access to water

Improving access to drinking water supply

Population with access to drinking water

Access to water services has improved nationwide.

Improving access to drinking water supply 7

Access to safe water 700,000 ( ) 2.5 years

access of everyone to drinking water supply and

(c) Improving access to information on African water resources.

Access to safe water and adequate excreta disposal facilities

Access to adequate water supply and adequate sewerage services

access of everyone to drinking water supply and sanitation services

Camp shelters with access to safe water (per cent)c

Options are presented on access to basic water services integrated water resources management access to basic sanitation sanitation and hygiene education and wastewater collection, treatment and reuse.

Decide to facilitate access to water for all and to accelerate the preparation of national integrated water management and water efficiency plans

Improving access to safe drinking water in urban and rural areas

Was there information on access to safe water supply and sanitation?

The right of access to drinking water supply and sanitation services

In 1995 the population with access to drinking water was of 33 and with access to sanitation represented 20 .

With 20 billion dollars, everyone can have access to safe drinking water.

They did not have access to electricity, clean water or sanitary facilities.

Power and water cuts during prolonged curfews, which curtail access to clean water, have increased the number of diarrhoea cases.

Water was a finite resource for all living beings, and access to water had very significant social and economic implications.

For the majority of households, inadequately treated water drawn from wells is the only affordable means of access to clean water.

The report also confirms 98 per cent access to safe water and sanitation.

Lack of access to safe water is associated with high child mortality rates

17. Limited access to water remains the greatest obstacle to Palestinian agricultural development.

(ix) Article 17, paragraph 4 of the International Law Association Berlin Rules on Water Resources, 2004, The right of access to water

Also in 2000, 32 per cent of the population had access to safe drinking water and 36 per cent access to sanitation.

An estimated 1.4 billion people still lack access to safe water and about twice as many have no access to adequate sanitation.

About 77 of the population in Namibia has access to safe drinking water, and 41 has access to sanitary means of excreta disposal.

It is hard for people to get access to drinking water owing to the high cost of water and unsatisfactory storage and transportation conditions.

This has a very negative impact on health, nutrition, sanitary conditions, access to water, etc.

Access to water of microbiological quality is ensured for 83.39 per cent of the population.

Access to drinking water for all frees women from servitude and thus preserves their dignity.

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

The Committee is also concerned about the problems encountered in providing access to safe water.

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

On the other hand, the population without access to drinking water was of 10,1 million and without access to sanitation was of 12,1 million.

The Committee noted the large scale problem of access to water and the great loss of human life associated with that problem and that the right of access to water was closely linked to the right to life.

How might we improve access to safe drinking water for the world's poorest people, and at the same time stimulate innovation amongst local water providers?

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.

Since 1990, over 1 billion people have gained access to improved drinking water and sanitation services.

In spite of efforts made during the International Drinking Water Supply and Sanitation Decade, about 20 per cent of the world population lacks access to safe water and about 50 per cent lacks access to adequate forms of sanitation.

Green Cross International was launching an initiative for access to clean water, advocating the adoption of a legally binding international treaty for the right to water.

The urban poor usually have very low access to water and sanitation services, and pockets of people such as indigenous groups often have even lower access.