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Water Supply and Quality in the Sub-Saharan Africa

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Clean Water and Sanitation

Part of the book series: Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals ((ENUNSDG))

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Safe and available water

Definition

Water supply represents the provision of water by public utilities, commercial organizations, communal or individuals’ efforts, usually through a system of pumps and pipes. In the sub-Saharan Africa, it includes direct fetching with bowls or drawers from surface and groundwater sources.

Water quality encompasses the physical, chemical, and biological condition of water, with respect to a specific use, such as drinking, bathing, domestic chores, or any other uses.

Introduction

Water is an essential part of the ecosystem, supporting the sustenance of living organisms and transformation of nonliving things. Water is an asset when it is available in safe and secure amount but it may become an agent of disaster when it is neither safe nor secure. Provision of safe and secure water is so important that life depends on it. Supply and quality of water exert implications for spread or containment of infectious diarrhea and other serious waterborne...

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  1. Department of Geography, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria

    Adebayo Oluwole Eludoyin

  2. Department of Public Health, University of Calabar, Calabar, Nigeria

    Olajumoke Esther Olanrewaju

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Eludoyin, A.O., Olanrewaju, O.E. (2021). Water Supply and Quality in the Sub-Saharan Africa. In: Leal Filho, W., Azul, A.M., Brandli, L., Lange Salvia, A., Wall, T. (eds) Clean Water and Sanitation. Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-70061-8_166-1

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