Potable water

We had no potable water.

Radiological control of food and potable water

Potable water was tested for total beta activity.

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.

Waste water treatment, recycling and reuse

Performance of waste water treatment systems

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.

(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.

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

Waste water treatment was also given attention.

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

They wind up in waste water treatment plants.

Urban Waste Water Treatment Directive 91 271 EEC

The Urban Waste Water Treatment Directive (UWWTD) concerns

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.

74. A water plant with a capacity of half a million gallons of water every day should be operating in 1994 in Bermuda, using reverse osmosis, a method of turning salt water into potable water.

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.

Water pumping, delivery and waste water treatment facilities consume a significant amount of energy.

We're also looking at low cost water treatment systems.

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.

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.

Point of use household water treatment systems, together with safe water storage, can provide safe drinking water from unsafe water sources.

Provision is made to purchase electrical spare parts for the water treatment water pump station.

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

About half of the production is consumed in water treatment.

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These costs should include construction, financing and maintenance of such measures as drinking water treatment and supply, the collection, treatment and discharge of waste water and water used for irrigation purposes.

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.

Using the Urban Waste Water Treatment Directive as a model could help ENP partner countries control discharges and ensure sufficient treatment of waste water, thereby improving water quality and reducing health risks.

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.

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.