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Table 5 Accessibility and quality of water for informal settlement residents: price, source, and quality of water

From: Revisiting the Sphere standards: comparing the revised Sphere standards to living standards in three urban informal settlements in Nairobi, Kenya

 

Korogocho

Mukuru

Viwandani

Pay for water (%)

89

99

96

Average time to walk to water source (min)

2.6 (2.11)

2.43 (2.04)

2.4 (2.10)

Liters of water/person/day

17.6 (8.46)

21.6 (17.5)

20.3 (19.5)

Meeting 15 L/day threshold (%)

58.86

67.92

55.09

Main water source (%)

 Piped or tap water

95

95

81

 Water tanks

3

5

19

 Water vendors

2

0

0

 Lake, river, or well

0

0

0

Quality of water (%)

 Clean water

86

69

74

 Very clean water

10

1

14

 Dirty water

4

29

11

 Very dirty water

0

1

1

  1. Source: IDSUE February 2014. Standard deviations in parenthesis