Access
Public water supply systems cover about 95% of the households in urban areas and about 80% in rural areas.
Drinking Water Supply
| Year | Urban | Rural |
|---|---|---|
| 1996 | 95% | 71% |
| 2002 | 98% | 83% |
| 2006 | 94% | 80% |
In 2002 96% of all urban households were connected to a sewer system. Nearly half (46%) of rural house connections were connected to a pipe sewerage system in 2002. In 2002 about 30% of the rural households were connected to a pit latrine.
Improved Sanitation
| Year | Urban | Rural |
|---|---|---|
| 1996 | 97% | 56% |
| 2002 | 98% | 75% |
Read more about this topic: Water Supply And Sanitation In Syria
Famous quotes containing the word access:
“Whilst the rights of all as persons are equal, in virtue of their access to reason, their rights in property are very unequal. One man owns his clothes, and another owns a country.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“The Hacker Ethic: Access to computers—and anything which might teach you something about the way the world works—should be unlimited and total.
Always yield to the Hands-On Imperative!
All information should be free.
Mistrust authority—promote decentralization.
Hackers should be judged by their hacking, not bogus criteria such as degrees, age, race, or position.
You can create art and beauty on a computer.
Computers can change your life for the better.”
—Steven Levy, U.S. writer. Hackers, ch. 2, “The Hacker Ethic,” pp. 27-33, Anchor Press, Doubleday (1984)
“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)