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Water is not just for drinking
09/09/2010
Author : Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS - Denmark)
By Helle Munk Ravnborg | DIIS Comment - September 2010
 
When developing countries seek to improve their water supply by constructing piped drinking water schemes and then prohibiting people from using the piped water for bathing, this often creates new problems. People then have to wash themselves in local rivers and streams and these are frequently polluted

Supplying clean drinking water to people in towns and rural areas in developing countries is very important. Fortunately, a steadily growing share of people in the Third World have access to clean drinking water. But water is not just for drinking. When a village called San Isidro in Condega district in Nicaragua had their water supply improved through the construction of a public piped water scheme fed by water from a local spring, the local village stream dried out. Because the piped water may only be used for drinking, this means that the more than 500 people living in the village must now walk long distances to take a proper bath. In other words, by solving the problem of supplying adequate drinking water, one often creates new problems such as cutting off the amount of water available for other purposes like bathing and washing clothes.

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September 5-11, 2010: World Water Week - Stockholm
 
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