Potable water

We had no potable water.

Radiological control of food and potable water

Potable water was tested for total beta activity.

Singapore is using Newater, a treated form of wastewater that is potable.

Provision of potable water is becoming more difficult throughout the mission area.

260. Provision of potable water is becoming more difficult throughout the mission area.

15 6.17 Potable water systems shall, at least, comply with the requirements of 17 9 .

Also, appropriate housing and potable water policies were essential for poverty eradication and environmental protection.

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

In Myanmar, UNICEF provides potable water systems and immunization campaigns in UNDCP alternative development project areas.

Singapore is leading the way in another area as well production and distribution of potable recycled water.

All 64 settlements are provided with potable water for domestic consumption and other uses by the communities.

The services include potable water to meet domestic needs and collection and disposal of refuse and liquid wastes.

UNICEF dedicated a significant part of its well drilling capacity to provision of potable water to communities receiving returnees.

Garan is the founder of the Manna Energy Foundation, which is assisting the villages of Rwanda to make potable water.

Consequently, poverty alleviation and increasing food production and access to potable water supply systems emerged as important development priority areas.

Again, modest gains have also been made in the provision of potable drinking water to the populace, as evidenced by the fact that the percentage of the population with access to potable water increased from 37 per cent in 2000 to 44 per cent in 2002.

Sustainable technologies and networks must be developed to ensure that all indigenous communities have sustained access to potable water and electricity

As part of the assistance programmes for returnee communities, UNHCR activities addressed needs for shelter, potable water, irrigation and road repair.

The specific health care needs of women required urgent attention, notably in the areas of HIV AIDS, malaria, potable water and sanitation.

Rapid economic and demographic expansion has already turned adequate access to potable water into a major issue across large parts of the world.

At the present time, access to the basic necessities of life (food, potable water, housing, fuel and energy) is highly restricted in Africa.

(i) Lower than budgeted costs for rations and the installation of water purifications units, which made the mission self sufficient in potable water

Also important is the provision of infrastructure, especially potable water, since water provision, even in urban areas, tends to be a female responsibility.

This eliminates the need to import, by barge, 50 per cent of the island apos s demand in potable water from St. Thomas.

Global warming is set to put potable water supplies under increasing strain even as oceans rise and the intensity and frequency of storms and other extreme weather events increase. Rapid economic and demographic expansion has already turned adequate access to potable water into a major issue across large parts of the world.

49. Lack of access to potable water and limited sanitation facilities have led to very high rates of mortality and morbidity from diarrhoeal diseases.

The desalination facility on the island, which utilizes waste heat from the electric power station, produces 13.6 million litres per day of potable water.

Singapore is using Newater, a treated form of wastewater that is potable. And British schools now include sustainability as a key part of the curriculum.

The causes of these diseases are often directly or indirectly related to extremely poor environmental conditions, poor hygiene practices and limited access to potable water.

50. On St. John, a reverse osmosis project, which provides the island with 0.7 million litres per day of potable water, has been completed recently.

Additional responses could include programmes to increase public health awareness, to provide clean and potable water, and to improve the handling of food and medicines.

Access to freshwater resources was a high priority for Kazakhstan, which had allocated US 900 million for a potable water programme for the period 2002 2012.

Provision is made for the acquisition of 2 units of water purification equipment with capacity to produce potable water at a daily rate of 2,000 litres.

The towns of Charlotte Amalie on St. Thomas and Christiansted on St. Croix, which have limited quantities of potable water, use saltwater to rinse their sewerage systems.

Regarding the radiological testing of food and potable water, in 2002, along with 349 food samples tested, an annual mentoring of 24 samples were checked for 5 radioisotopes.

Kuchi representatives claim that the Government has failed to honour its commitment to provide them with adequate political representation, mobile schools for their children, clinics and potable water.

In a complementary approach with expanding access to potable water, use of oral rehydration salts (ORS) to prevent diarrhoeal dehydration has been a focus of basic health activities.

It also adopted resolutions supporting the Agency apos s role in the use of isotope hydrology for water resource management and in plans for producing potable water economically.

Hundreds of small reservoirs to collect rain water were dug and the drilling of wells was being undertaken in order to provide potable drinking water for the population.

Global warming is set to put potable water supplies under increasing strain even as oceans rise and the intensity and frequency of storms and other extreme weather events increase.

Potable water, arable land, rainforests, oil, gas they're going away, and they're going away soon, and unless we innovate our way out of this mess, we're going away too.

Several African countries Mali, Central African Republic, South Sudan, and Somalia are engulfed in permanent civil war, leaving citizens without potable water, much less schools, hospitals, and other social infrastructure.

47. Water requires critical attention in the United States Virgin Islands principally because the three main islands rely on a saltwater conversion process for most of their potable water supply.