We would like you to answer the following questions and share them in this forum topic. You can use the “Decision Process for Drinking Water” document : http://www.peacecorps.gov/wws/educators/enrichment/africa/lessons/HShealth01/hshealth01sup03.pdf 

1 How does drinking water enter your house?

A)       Tap in kitchen

B)       Tap in kitchen connected to water filter

C)       Buy bottled/canned drinking water from outside

2) Where does this water come from?

A)       Pipe from community source

B)       Pipe from government/municipal source

C)       …

3) Is the water treated or tested prior to being distributed?

4) How far is this water transported to reach the treatment facility and/or your home?

5) What is the original source of this water?

A)       Lake

B)       River

C)       Underground aquifer

D)      Well

6) According to you, what percentage of your country’s population received its drinking water supply in this manner?

7) How big is your water footprint? (you can calculate on http://www.waterfootprintkemira.com/meter or http://www.waterfootprint.org/index.php?page=cal/WaterFootprintCalculator

 

 

1 How does drinking water enter your house?

A) Tap in kitchen

2) Where does this water come from?

C) The water companies are privatised in The Netherlands

3) Is the water treated or tested prior to being distributed? Treated only for surface water, water in my province is mostly ground water but it is tested.

4) How far is this water transported to reach the treatment facility and/or your home? maybe 20 kilometers or something? Not far.

5) What is the original source of this water?

C) Underground aquifer

6) According to you, what percentage of your country’s population received its drinking water supply in this manner? 75% (rest from surface water)

7) How big is your water footprint? I used the first calculator, it is 3507 liters a day.

1 How does drinking water enter your house?

B) Tap in kitchen connected to water filter

C) Buy bottled/canned drinking water from outside

2) Where does this water come from?

B) Pipe from government/municipal source

 

3) Is the water treated or tested prior to being distributed?

The water is tested by EU standards

4) How far is this water transported to reach the treatment facility and/or your home?

Almost in the city center of Tallinn, 15 min from my home by car.

5) What is the original source of this water?

A) Lake. Tallinn gets about 80% of water from surface water resources. Lake Ülemiste has supplied Tallinn with
water since 14th century.

6) According to you, what percentage of your country’s population received its drinking water supply in this manner?

The drinking water supply is based on groundwater (ca 65% of the inhabitants, in all rural settlements and most of towns) and surface water (ca 35% of the inhabitants, in two large towns, Tallinn and Narva). Groundwater forms ca 15-20 % of the total water abstraction of Estonia.

7) How big is your water footprint? 3518 liters per day (229 l direct)

1 How does drinking water enter your house?

A)       Tap in kitchen

2) Where does this water come from?

B)       Pipe from government/municipal source

3) Yes the water is treated according to the water treatment standard law of New Zealand. 

4) It doesn’t travel too far- I go running by the water treatment plant- water is sourced 15min drive from my city. 

5) 

A)       Lake

B)       River

6) The majority if not all of New Zealand recieves water in the same way- through water catchements/reserviors from rivers, streams built into dams with water treament plants. 

7)  3406 liters per day

1) A

2) C – pipe from private source

3) tested, not treated

4) less than 2 km

5) D

6) the well is to access groundwater in underground aquifers. It serves 4 houses in a small village in a rural mountainous area. The water is not treated by option. it’s pure and it taken from non cultivated ground of the mountain. People also have the option of pipe local govermental water, also from underground aquifers.this last one is treated (has to by law).

7)  4222

1 How does drinking water enter your house?

C)       Buy bottled/canned drinking water from outside

2) Where does this water come from?

C)       …

3) Is the water treated or tested prior to being distributed?

Yes, by the company and government

4) How far is this water transported to reach the treatment facility and/or your home?

more than 5 km

5) What is the original source of this water?

A)       Lake

and self flowing spring

 

6) According to you, what percentage of your country’s population received its drinking water supply in this manner?

7) How big is your water footprint? 

3793 l/day

1 How does drinking water enter your house?

A)       Tap in kitchen

B)       Tap in kitchen connected to water filter

C)       Buy bottled/canned drinking water from outside

 

I’ll just be more realistic in terms of the water source in the Philippines. Permit me to answer the questions regardless of the fact that some of the options may seem inappropriate in our situation.

First, there are three levels of water classification in the Philippines, There’s Levels I (standalone water points, including shallow wells, handpumps, or rainwater collectors) Level II (Piped water supply with a communal water point, such as spring system or borewell) and Level III (Piped water supply with a private water point, such as a house connection) (WSP, 2004).

These three levels exist in the various areas in the Philippines. I have two areas of location and in the houses I take shelter in Iloilo and Romblon, water enters through a (A) tap in the kitchen and the (C) buying of bottled drinking water, respectively.

 

2) Where does this water come from?

A)       Pipe from community source

B)       Pipe from government/municipal source

C)       …

 

In my home in Iloilo we get our water from our personal well (and with the advent of a motor unit thereby induces the passage through the pipes) wherein we treat with chlorine once a month.  In my foster house in Romblon, we usually buy bottled water.

 

3) Is the water treated or tested prior to being distributed?

 

Yes. Water is tested monthly or by ordered by the Municipal Health Office sanctioned under the Rural Sanitary Inspector.

 

4) How far is this water transported to reach the treatment facility and/or your home?

 

From the source to the treatment facility, just five (5) meters.

From source to home, ten (10) meters.

 

5) What is the original source of this water?

A)       Lake

B)       River

C)       Underground aquifer

D)      Well

 

 

In Iloilo, it’s a well, likewise with those sold in Romblon, only treated with multi-layered screening to ensure safety.

 

6) According to you, what percentage of your country’s population received its drinking water supply in this manner?

 

Water potable areas constitutes 80% of the population.

 

Water footprint: 3461

 

Hello there!! Here are my answers from NL.

1 How does drinking water enter your house?

A)       Tap in kitchen

2) Where does this water come from?

C)  We have privatised water companies. 

3) Is the water treated or tested prior to being distributed?

Surface water is being tested and treater, water from ‘underground’ is not I believe.

4) How far is this water transported to reach the treatment facility and/or your home?

I am not sure, bur maybe 50 km?

5) What is the original source of this water?

C)       Underground aquifer

D)       Surface water

6) According to you, what percentage of your country’s population received its drinking water supply in this manner?

I think all people (100%) receive water in these two manners.

7) How big is your water footprint? 852 per year