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  2. Water supply and sanitation in Azerbaijan - Wikipedia

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    The state works with donor communities to take the necessary measures to address these problems. The Azerbaijani government has adopted a program on the construction of water supply and sewage systems in more than 60 small towns (regional centers) in the country. The state has already started to implement more than 20 such projects.

  3. Water supply and sanitation in Germany - Wikipedia

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    The length of the drinking water network in Germany is estimated to be more than 500,000 km. The length of the sewer network in 2004 was estimated by the Federal Statistical Office to be 515,000 km, divided as follows: 238,000 km of combined sewers; 171,000 km of sanitary sewers; 106,000 km of stormwater sewers

  4. List of countries by access to improved sanitation facilities

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    The Joint Monitoring Programme for Water Supply and Sanitation of WHO and UNICEF has defined improved sanitation as follows: flush toilet, [4] connection to a piped sewer system, connection to a septic system, flush/pour-flush to a pit latrine, ventilated improved pit (VIP) latrine, pit latrine with slab, composting toilet and/or some special ...

  5. Sewerage - Wikipedia

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    Sewerage (or sewage system) is the infrastructure that conveys sewage or surface runoff (stormwater, meltwater, rainwater) using sewers. It encompasses components such as receiving drains , manholes , pumping stations , storm overflows, and screening chambers of the combined sewer or sanitary sewer .

  6. Utilities in Azerbaijan - Wikipedia

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    The Presidential decrees on State Program on Development of Fuel and Energy Complex (2005-2015) of the Republic of Azerbaijan dated 14 February 2005, State Program on Socio-Economic Development of the Republic of Azerbaijan in 2009-2013 dated 14 August 2009, “State Program on the socio-economic development of Baku and its settlements" dated 4 ...

  7. Water supply and sanitation in the European Union - Wikipedia

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    A controversial aspect of the directive is the requirement for all agglomerations with more than 2,000 inhabitants to have a wastewater collection system, which has been widely interpreted as requiring connection to a sewer system even if existing on-site sanitation systems perform adequately. The cost of connecting houses to sewers in small ...

  8. History of water supply and sanitation - Wikipedia

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    In 1863, work began on the construction of a modern sewerage system for the rapidly growing city of Frankfurt am Main, based on design work by William Lindley. 20 years after the system's completion, the death rate from typhoid had fallen from 80 to 10 per 100,000 inhabitants. [96] [86]: 43 [97] The sewer system of Memphis, Tennessee in 1880

  9. Environmental issues in Azerbaijan - Wikipedia

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    The following are the principal ecological problems of Azerbaijan: The pollution of water resources by way of introduction of contaminated water, including transnational pollution; The supply of low-quality water to inhabited regions, the loss of fresh water prior to its delivery to the end consumers, insufficient development of sewer systems