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Measuring rural water supply access: Findings from a comparative analysis

This report produced by the Water and Sanitation Program (WSP) and the Cambodian Ministry of Rural Development analyses rates of access to water supplies in rural areas of Cambodia. The reason for the formulation of the project was the release of two national data sets, showing
a marked discrepancy in rural water supply (RWS) coverage rates between them.

It compares these two sets of data that provide significantly different rates of coverage for access to rural water supplies, and investigates the reasons behind the discrepancy. The report also provides a series of recommendations on how the issues leading to the discrepancies can be addressed and resolved in future.

The main national surveys considered in this report (the Census, the Cambodia Inter-Census Population Survey and Cambodia Socio-Economic Survey) all consider the following water sources to be safe:
 - Piped water
- Tube well
- Protected dug well

 

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