Water Supply

• WATER SUPPLY: This is the ability to provide water sufficiently to people in an area. Most experienced by African, Asian and Latin American countries
• Clean water supply schemes include;

  • Digging wells and boreholes to reach underground water supplies
  • Using modern pumps and pipes
  • Boiling and treating water from river and lakes
• WATER POLLUTION: The contamination of water bodies by chemicals or other substances making them unsafe for consumption.
• Causes of Water Pollution:

  1. Industrial discharge
  2. Agricultural waste
  3. Rubbish disposal
  4. Oil spillage in water bodies
  5. Global Warming