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Dimension Economy
Sub-Dimension Infrastructure

Category Water and Sanitation
KPI Name Potable Water Supply
KPI No. EC: I: WS: 2C Type: Core Type: Sustainable

Definition / Percentage of households with a safely managed drinking water service
Description

Rationale / This indicator measures the percentage of the urban and rural population using
Interpretation / safely managed drinking water services, as defined by the WHO/UNICEF Joint
Benchmarking Monitoring Programme. This indicator goes beyond the “basic water supply”
indicator as it has been designed to incorporate an assessment of the quality and
safety of the water people use.
Households are considered to have access to safely managed drinking water
service when they use water from a basic source on premises. The term “safely
managed” is proposed to describe a higher threshold of service for water. This
includes measures for protecting supplies and ensuring that water is safe to drink.

A house shall not be considered to have access to a safely managed drinking
water service when an individual house or group is served by a conduit system
built, for example, of wood, bamboo, or rubber hose, connected directly to a river,
well, or to another house.
An improving trend and higher values are considered positive.

Source(s) NOTE – WHO/UNICEF. Joint Monitoring Programme for Water Supply and
Sanitation. Retrieved from <https:// www .washdata .org/ >

Methodology Calculate as:
Numerator: Number of city households with a safely managed drinking water
service.
Denominator: Total number of city households.

Multiply by 100.
Unit Percentage
Data Sources Data can be collected through the local water utility.
/ Relevant
Databases

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