Water supply in developing African countries

Abstract

The provision of piped water for human consumption and industrial use, and the protection of water resources against pollution by water carried wastes from households or enterprises are problems fundamentally related to health and social well-being of a people and to their economic development. If proof is required there are well-known examples from the past to prove this statement, but evidence of such a basic relationship is observed in most countries of to-day’s world, whether they are developed or in the process of development.