Current situation to the access of water supply in ger area Case sudy: Bayankhoshuu, SKH district of Ulaanbaatar

Abstract

The study examed the access of the households in ger districts to water sources and according to the definition of “human water rights” to “sufficient, safe and acceptable, physically accessible and a ordable water”, at household level. Totally 333 households from Bayankhoshuu sub center were involved in the survey.

Descriptive statistical method was used in main results. The main results of the survey were as follows: (1) only 1.2 percent of the households fully satisfied the criteria f human water rights (2) 88.5-95.6 percent of the total households cannot use the necessary human consumption of 20 liters of water (3) Quality of private protected dug well kiosks does not meet the requirements of MNS 900:2005. And 58.9 percent of the total households use some kind of water disinfection (4) 63.9 of the total households take water within 200 meters, 91 percent spend less than 30 minutes in taking water, which meets the requirements. (5) All the households spend 0.5 percent of their average monthly income or 2729 tugrugs to water, which meets the requirements. But the households with minimum monthly income (< 370.000) spend 1453 tugrugs to water, while the households with maximum income (1.063.000<) spend 4200 tugrugs.