TAILIEUCHUNG - Water access and preferences of people in different geographical areas in Thua Thien Hue province

This research surveys households in three different communes in the province. The aim of the research is to explore how domestic water is perceived by local people, how it is used, and how it should be improved. | JOURNAL OF SCIENCE, Hue University, Vol. 67, No. 4A, 2011 WATER ACCESS AND PREFERENCES OF PEOPLE IN DIFFERENT GEOGRAPHICAL AREAS IN THUA THIEN HUE PROVINCE Hoang Ngoc Tuong Van1, Lisa Guppy2 and Robert Catherman3 1 Institute of Resources, Environment and Biotechnology, Hue University 2 3 University of Western Australia School of Earth and Environment Abstract. Domestic water scarcity is a growing problem worldwide. Thua Thien Hue Province in central Vietnam is an example of an area where water scarcity is being reduced under programs that supply centrally piped water to households. However, not all communes in Thua Thien Hue have piped water, and some areas of the province are still suffering from acute water scarcity. This research surveys households in three different communes in the province. The aim of the research is to explore how domestic water is perceived by local people, how it is used, and how it should be improved. Keywords: water access, preferences, domestic water scarcity, Thua Thien Hue province. 1 Introduction For the purposes of this research, water scarcity is defined as a lack of easily accessible, clean water for domestic use. Around 900 million people worldwide currently suffer from water scarcity (UN-Water, 2008). There is a very close relationship between water scarcity and poor human health. Globally, lack of water or poor water quality causes deaths of thousands of people each day; and inadequate water and sanitation causes an estimated five million deaths every year (UN-Water, 2008; UNEP, 2002; WHO/UNICEF, 2000; Wolf, 1999). The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP, 2010) emphasizes that water scarcity has the greatest impact on marginalized communities and those who lack political and economic power. Groups that are most affected by poor water quality include the poor in developed and developing countries, women and children. Adequate access to clean water is recognized as a key issue in developing countries and receives a

• Môi trường
• Water access
• Domestic water scarcity
• Thua Thien Hue province
• Domestic water
• The unit cost of water
• Water sources
• Water use
• Rural area
• Public water access
• Public water use
• Household feedback
• Summary of Doctoral thesis in Law
• Summary of Doctoral thesis
• Ensuring the right to clean water access
• Clean water access in rural areas
• Practice of provinces in Red river delta
• With some six billion mobile subscriptions now in use worldwide
• around three quarters of the world’s inhabitants now have access to a mobile phone
• Mobiles are arguably the most ubiquitous modern technology in some developing countries
• more people have access to a mobile phone than to clean water
• a bank account or even electricity
• Mobile communications now offer major opportunities to advance human development from providing basic access to education or health information to making cash payments and stimulating citizen involvement in democratic processes
• This 2012 edition of the World Bank’s Information and Communication for Development Report analyzes the growth and evolution of mobile telephony
• and the rise of data based services delivered to handheld devices
• including ’apps’ or smartphone applications
• World Bank
• Decovidization through rurbanization
• De covidization
• Energy access
• Ecology driven shared value creation
• Water waste energy metrics
• Coronary Interventions
• Vascular Access
• Percutaneous Coronary
• Coronary Intervention
• Cardiac Arrest Survivors
• Percutaneous Intervention
• Shallow water
• Navigational and access channel bed scour
• Main ship propeller
• Channel bed
• Marine structures
• Public health
• Logistic regression
• National data
• Drinking water
• Health survey
• Non technical summary
• BMC Anesthesiology
• Lung edema
• Extravascular lung water
• Pulmonary vascular permeability index
• Transpulmonary thermodilution
• Femoral venous catheter