Access
According to the Joint Monitoring Program (JMP) for Water Supply and Sanitation of UNICEF and WHO, access to an improved water source increased from 85% in 1990 to 92% in 2010. Sanitation has long been regarded as a private responsibility, resulting in almost no connections to a sewerage system.
| Access to Water and Sanitation in the Philippines (2004) | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Urban (49% of the population) |
Rural (51% of the population) |
Total | ||
| Water | Broad definition | 93% | 92% | 92% |
| House connections | 61% | 25% | 43% | |
| Sanitation | Broad definition | 79% | 69% | 74% |
| Sewerage | 7% | 2% | 5% | |
Independent surveys estimate a lower access rate using a narrower definition of supply. One estimate indicates that in 2000 only 63% of the population had access to publicly provided drinking water, with the rest relying on self-supply.
Read more about this topic: Water Supply And Sanitation In The Philippines
Famous quotes containing the word access:
“Make thick my blood,
Stop up th’ access and passage to remorse,
That no compunctious visitings of nature
Shake my fell purpose.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“The last publicized center of American writing was Manhattan. Its writers became known as the New York Intellectuals. With important connections to publishing, and universities, with access to the major book reviews, they were able to pose as the vanguard of American culture when they were so obsessed with the two Joes—McCarthy and Stalin—that they were to produce only two artists, Saul Bellow and Philip Roth, who left town.”
—Ishmael Reed (b. 1938)
“Oh, the holiness of always being the injured party. The historically oppressed can find not only sanctity but safety in the state of victimization. When access to a better life has been denied often enough, and successfully enough, one can use the rejection as an excuse to cease all efforts. After all, one reckons, “they” don’t want me, “they” accept their own mediocrity and refuse my best, “they” don’t deserve me.”
—Maya Angelou (b. 1928)