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Government Commitments

Under the development Strategy for 2017–2021, improved access to clean drinking water is a government priority, to be implemented through the national reorganization of sector

institutions, financial and cost recovery reform, the construction of new water supply systems, and the introduction of modern, cost-effective, and efficient technologies.
In 2015–2017, the government endorsed legal provisions to transform the country’s water supply.⁷⁷ State unitary enterprises (Suvokava) in each province were reorganized and charged

⁷⁵ UN economic Commission for europe. 2015. Water Quality in the Amudarya and Syrdarya Water Basins. http://www.cawater-info.net/water_quality_in_ca/files/uzbekistan.pdf/.
⁷⁶ adB. 2017. Poverty and Social Analysis: Western Uzbekistan Water Supply System Development Project. Manila.
⁷⁷ president of Uzbekistan. 2015. On Approval of the Program for Development and Modernization of Engineering, Communications and Road Transport Infrastructure for 2015–2019 (decree No. 2313). 6 March. tashkent; Cabinet of Ministers. On Comprehensive Program of Measures to Mitigate the Consequences of Aral Sea Disaster, Rehabilitation and Socio-economic Development of the Aral Sea Region for 2015–2018 (Resolution No. 255). 27 august. tashkent; president of Uzbekistan. 2017. On Approval of the Program for Integrated Development and Modernization of Drinking Water Supply and Sanitation Systems for 2017–2021 (decree No. 2910). 20 april. tashkent; president of Uzbekistan. 2017. On Approval of the State Program for Development of the Aral Sea Region for 2017–2021. (decree No. 2731). 18 January. tashkent.
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Table 4: Access to Water Supply and Sanitation, 2014–2016

(%)

Level of Access	2014	2015	2016
Safe drinking water in urban areas (proportion of households whose source of drinking water is surface water, well water drawn with the help of buckets or a hand pump, or bottled water)	92.1	92.4	93.2
Safe drinking water in rural areas (proportion of households whose source of drinking water is surface water, well water drawn with the help of buckets or a hand pump, or bottled water	73.6	74.9	75.3
pipe sewerage system in urban areas (drainage system connecting economic-design wastewater flow network to centralized sewer network, absorbing wells, or septic tanks)	66.9	74.7	78.7
pipe sewerage system in rural areas (provision of drainage means connected to network flow economic- liquid waste waters to centralized sewer network or absorbing wells or septic tanks in the yard)	31.7	33.9	42.1

Source: data provided by the State Committee on Statistics to adB in September–October 2017 for this CGa update.
with developing and implementing WSS improvements. the State Inspectorate for the Control of the Use of drinking Water was established under the Cabinet of Ministers in 2017.

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