Decade of clean water. [Declaration of 1980s as International Drinking Water Supply and Sanitation Decade]
A 10-year United Nations program will attempt to improve drinking water quality for 1.8 billion people and sanitation facilities for 2.4 billion people who represent an increasing share of Third World populations that lacks these necessities. The International Drinking Water Supply and Sanitation Decade (IDWSSD) addresses issues of both moral and economic implications if it succeeds in developing a social framework in which population growth can be controlled. Obstacles to this massive undertaking include its high cost, a stubborn adherence to expensive sewerage systems, poor understanding of how a community organizes to maintain and operate water-supply and sanitation systems, difficulty in linking the two programs, and the lack of institutions and skilled labor to carry out the program. A strategy adaptable to urban areas can use existing institutions to develop the system on a paid basis, while a free or easy-access concept should be adopted for rural areas. (DCK)
- OSTI ID:
- 7042163
- Journal Information:
- New Sci.; (United States), Vol. 88
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
Similar Records
Industrial discharges of metals in Kigali, Rwanda, and the impact on drinking water quality
Providing safe drinking water to 1.2 billion unserved people
Related Subjects
POLICY AND ECONOMY
54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES
LOW INCOME GROUPS
DRINKING WATER
WASTE MANAGEMENT
UNITED NATIONS
RESEARCH PROGRAMS
DISEASES
HEALTH HAZARDS
SEWAGE
HAZARDS
HYDROGEN COMPOUNDS
INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
MANAGEMENT
OXYGEN COMPOUNDS
WASTES
WATER
290300* - Energy Planning & Policy- Environment
Health
& Safety
520600 - Environment
Aquatic- Regulations - (-1989)