<One quarter of a billion households have no access to piped water.
(Source: The Councillor as Guardian of the Environment.United Nations
Environment Programme.)
http://www.unep.or.jp/ietc/Publications/TechPublications/TechPub-7/challenge.asp
Thirty-one countries ans over 1 billion people lack access to clean
water. (Source: Save the Children.)
http://www.savethechildren.net/new_zealand/teachers_resources/water.html
Number of wells around the world.
United States ? 15.9 million (282,828 public supply wells and 15.1
individual household wells).
India ? 12.3 million
China ? 3.4 million
Germany ? 500,000
South Africa ? 500,000
Taiwan ? 37,100
Mongolia ? 27,000
Botswana ? 7,500
Costa Rica ? 5,000
Percentage of population dependent on ground water.
US - 47 percent.
Asia-Pacific ? 32 percent
Europe ? 75 percent
Latin America ? 29 percent
Australia ? 15 percent.
(Source: National Ground Water Association. Wellowner.org)
http://www.wellowner.org/agroundwater/gwsupplyanduse.shtml
Canada ? 2 million wells.
(Source: WaterCan.com.)
http://www.watercan.com/issues/cawaterffs.shtml
Ireland has an estimated 200,000 wells with at least a quarter
contaminated. (Source: Geological Survey of Ireland.)
http://www.gsi.ie/workgsi/groundwater/newslet/35/35-01.htm
Scotland ? there are an estimated 30,000 private wells and springs.
35 boreholes and 103 springs for public water supply (54 million litres per day)
120 industrial bore holes
300 for farm irrigation
(Source: Scottish Parliament.)
http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/business/research/pdf_res_brief/sb02-81.pdf
Norway ? 80,000 (Source: European Environment Agency.)
http://reports.eea.eu.int/92-9167-032-4/en/page014.html
Turkmenistan ? 3,300
http://64.233.183.104/search?q=cache:ibOKacf2tyEJ:www.isse.ucar.edu/centralasia/orlovsky.pdf+%22new+water+wells%22+%22every+year%22&hl=en
Bangladesh ? 6 to 10 million private wells. (Source: National
Institute of Environmental Health Sciences.)
http://www.niehs.nih.gov/dert/profiles/hilites/2002/grndwtr.htm
Romania ? 1 million wells in rural areas. (Source: European Centre of
Enterprises with Public Participation.)
http://64.233.183.104/search?q=cache:Q2MVBzz8i-oJ:www.ceep.org/en/documents/contributions_speeches/CEEPCongress2004/Discours%2520Opran%2520EN.doc+%22million+private+wells%22&hl=en
In England at least there are at least 2,000 groundwater sources for
public drinking water supply. (Source: Environment agency.)
http://216.31.193.171/asp/1_about_spz.asp?language=English
1% of households in England and Wales have access to a private supply
of water. (Source: Accepta.)
http://www.accepta.com/Water_Analysis/Private-water-supplies.asp
Mekong Delta, Vietnam ? 19,500.
http://mekongriver.org/tuwsmd.htm>
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