Urban Water

(f) Human values in improving urban water governance

Urban services water and sanitation getting the private sector to work for the urban poor

Communicating Urban Water Preconditions for a Sustainable Everyday Life

Segment 1 Pro poor urban water governance myth or reality?

Sustainable urban development (access to basic services such as water and sanitation, waste management, transport and energy urban planification).

Improving access to safe drinking water in urban and rural areas

12. The urban water crisis is also accentuated by poor management practices.

(9) Any water used must conform to the national hygiene standards for drinking water in urban and rural areas

(vii) Public utilities, to provide or to upgrade public utilities such as water and sanitation in low income urban and semi urban settlements

(viii) UNICEF assisted urban basic services programme (UBS), to enhance the nutrition, water and sanitation, health education and income generating activities of urban low income families through the urban local authorities.

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.

Substantive inputs to local actors range from land administration to demand based water management, participatory planning, urban crime and safety and inclusive urban management.

The Water, Sanitation and Infrastructure Branch has integrated norms of good urban governance into its activities related to water education and management.

(a) Urban water and sanitation governance that is geared to the needs of the poor

316. The action taken by Tunisia to improve environmental hygiene has resulted in practical terms in the establishment of supervisory systems to monitor drinking water in rural and urban areas, mineral water, bathing water and waste water.

However, there is a marked difference between the urban and rural sectors in the availability of safe drinking water 87 per cent of the urban population have safe drinking water, while only 49 per cent of the rural population enjoyed this facility.

23. Government goals in the water sector are to increase access to safe water supply in the rural areas to 40 per cent by the year 2000 and in urban and peri urban areas to between 50 and 80 per cent by 2002.

Documentation HSP WUF 2 9 Urban services Making the private sector work for the urban poor Water and Sanitation in Cities report (UN Habitat 2003), Getting the private sector to work for the urban poor (draft, UN Habitat 2004)

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

Drought also affects the urban population, with Djibouti ville facing severe water shortages, especially in the summer months.

Urban cultures Urban realities Urban governance Urban renaissance.

Urban poor Urban resources Urban sustainability Urban services Urban disasters and reconstruction.

The majority of the population has access to safe water and sanitation facilities in both rural and urban areas.

As concerns hydraulics and the improvement of basic social services, we have acted to ensure a reliable supply of drinking water in both rural and urban areas. In urban areas, 37 drinking water distribution centres were built from 1995 through 1997, and in rural areas 1,188 wells were drilled, resulting in one water supply system for every 580 inhabitants.

The dialogue on urban services water and sanitation getting the private sector to work for the urban poor emphasized that the private sector does not only relate to large multinational water and sanitation companies, but also to local domestic companies, small scale vendors and community based initiatives.

Water and sanitation is an area in which coverage is low and significant disparities exist between rural and urban areas.

The Forum consisted of dialogues among partners on urban culture, urban realities, urban governance and urban renaissance, as well as thematic discussions on urban poverty, urban resources, urban sustainability, urban services, and urban disasters and reconstruction.

There were three plenary meetings, partners' dialogues on urban culture, urban realities, urban governance and urban renaissance, as well as thematic dialogues on urban poor, urban resources, urban sustainability, urban services and urban disasters and reconstruction.

Urban population and protein consumption data could be used to obtain activity data to estimate emissions from domestic waste water handling.

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

The Water, Sanitation and Infrastructure Branch is active in a number of areas in support of target 10, which includes its Water for African Cities, Water for Asian Cities and Urban Water Governance programmes and the preparation of the UN Habitat report on water and sanitation in the cities of the world.

Other water and environmental sanitation support activities included the drilling of new boreholes in drought affected areas of Somalia the construction of an urban water system in Gabilay, in Somaliland and the chlorinating of water supplies in Mogadishu to prevent cholera.

The areas of cooperation included standard setting and technical assistance to urban areas in such sectors as water supply and sanitation networks.

The themes of the discussions on water focused on providing access to safe drinking water in urban and rural areas preparing plans for integrated water resources management and creating an appropriate institutional and policy framework enhancing water use efficiency and managing competing uses water quality, ecosystem management and disaster prevention strengthening monitoring and evaluation programmes and securing finance for water related investments.

The themes of the discussions on water focused on providing access to safe drinking water in urban and rural areas preparing plans for integrated water resources management and creating an appropriate institutional and policy framework enhancing water use efficiency and managing competing uses water quality, ecosystem management and disaster prevention strengthening monitoring and evaluation programmes and securing finance for water related investments.

Rainfall will lead to urban water logging and farmland water logging, so more focus should be on the drainage and defense work of high risk areas such as underpass bridges and low lying areas!

Those programmes address issues such as urban poverty reduction, crime prevention and access to basic services such as water, sanitation and waste collection.

One sixth of the world's urban population or one billion people were slum dwellers who lacked secure tenure, shelter, water, education, and health.

In 1991 1992 drinking water was supplied to the whole of the urban population and to 34.4 per cent of the rural population.

Water supply and sanitation strategies aim to achieve 95 per cent urban coverage and 75 per cent rural coverage in the year 2000.

(c) Predominance of urban urban movements, although rural urban migration remains high.

WMO collaboration also included the implementation of Habitat Agenda in the area of urban water resources management and household water security in Africa, as part of the Secretary General apos s Special Initiative on Africa.

In addition to the Partners' dialogues, five thematic dialogues were held focusing on urban poor urban resources urban sustainability urban services and urban disasters and reconstruction.

For many years, experts have been warning that such storms would overwhelm the city s antiquated urban infrastructure. Salt water came streaming into open subways.