Some 70 per cent of common illnesses in the area stem from water pollution,48 and traces of polio have been detected in the Gaza Strip water supply.49

e) submarine cables or submarine pipelines,

Sewerage and Drainage

Access to sewage systems 457. In 1993, 774 out of 860 Polish towns had sewage systems, and 587 of these had sewage purification services 81.6 per cent of the urban population had access to a sewage system, and 62.2 per cent to sewage purification services.

Piped water

The sewers.

Storm drain?

Not only had homes been demolished, but water, electricity and sewage systems had been destroyed and agricultural land flattened.

3. Watercourse States shall, at the request of any of them, consult with a view to arriving at mutually agreeable measures and methods to prevent, reduce and control pollution of an international watercourse, such as

313. The proportion of the population having an adequate means of hygienic disposal of waste water (sewerage system, septic tank, cesspool ...) was 100 per cent in urban areas and 30 per cent in rural areas in 1994.

Jordan submitted results of monitoring and assessment studies which it claims show trends of increased water demand and consequential decreasing water supply to the wetlands.

Many rural communities are now forced to look for alternative water sources and often suffer from the ill effects of contaminated water and inadequate sewage and sanitation systems.

1.116 To improve environmental health conditions in refugee camps by implementing developmental projects to upgrade camp infrastructure of water, sewerage, drainage and solid waste management systems and integrating these systems within the municipal regional schemes of the host authorities.

Jordan further states that additional damage is likely to have been caused by solid wastes in plastic bags, deposited directly into the lagoon or blown by the wind from the beach, and by the trampling of the coral reef by refugees.

(a) The Watercourse Act ensures that due consideration is given to discharge and environmental matters in the administration of the watercourses

Water demand management policies could also be used for reducing the waste water volumes and required investment in sewerage.

(7) the protection of surface and groundwaters against depletion and pollution

2. Watercourse States shall, individually and, where appropriate, jointly, prevent, reduce and control the pollution of an international watercourse that may cause significant harm to other watercourse States or to their environment, including harm to human health or safety, to the use of the waters for any beneficial purpose or to the living resources of the watercourse.

Protection measures aimed at prevention of groundwater pollution and overuse should be the basic tools for groundwater management.

1.129 Eight water, sewerage and drainage systems in refugee camps in the Gaza Strip, Lebanon and the Syrian Arab Republic will have been implemented through project funds and further progress will have been achieved in mechanization of solid waste management in 41 refugee camps Agency wide.

Probably gone down the storm drain.

Can you guess? Someone who's slippery and evasive.

Work is ongoing on four piped water schemes, with five production wells, 14 kilometres of pipeline and 110 standpoints.

Management of Shared Watercourses

This is true both for the public infrastructure (drains, depressions where water accumulates during the rainy season, broken drinking water supply pipes) and in the private homes (roof top, drinking water tanks, and water collections inside and around the house).

1. Watercourse States shall, at the request of any of them, enter into consultations concerning the management of an international watercourse, which may include the establishment of a joint management mechanism.

A visit to the Paris sewers.

452. Advances in deepwater pipelaying technologies have increased the industry s capability to lay pipes from about 150 metres in the 1970s to 1,650 metres in the 1990s.

You had water, sewer networks that allowed for this kind of unchecked expansion.

Anthropogenic underwater noise pollution

190. A total of 272 settlements were provided with sewerage and water piping by the end of 1994 with a total length of 7,427 km 4,516 settlements were provided with water by installing 44,700 km of water pipes.

224. In addition, three quarters of the population has an electricity service and 95 per cent has access to drinking water from the piped system, standpipes, wells and tanks.

Waste management (including sewage treatment)

So these outfall pipes have been retrofitted to shut seawater off from entering the system.

Settlements with plumbing and sewerage

The sewers lead to the river. Into the sewers.

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.

Subsidies for sanitation services and sewer connections, whether direct or cross subsidies, could be justified in terms of the public health and environmental benefits from widespread use of sewerage and waste water treatment.

The villagers have constructed a water supply themselves, using pipes to draw from nearby springs.

Bulldozers had dug up roads, destroying electricity lines, sewers and water pipes in a brutal and disproportionate display of power.

The water network in Homs camp was connected with the municipal water supply system, and the General Authority for Palestine Arab Refugees laid 400 metres of concrete sewer pipes in Sbeineh camp.

Watercourse States shall, individually and, where appropriate, jointly, protect and preserve the ecosystems of international watercourses.

Water from many so called improved sources is contaminated because of poorly maintained or intermittently pressurized networks or untreated and contaminated source water.

Plumbing and sewerage deviations (in 1000s)

In particular, an international watercourse shall be used and developed by watercourse States with a view to attaining optimal and sustainable utilization thereof and benefits therefrom, taking into account the interests of the watercourse States concerned, consistent with adequate protection of the watercourse.