Uzbekistan Country Gender Assessment: Update

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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