rr
fcr any major public works development for public water supply
and wastewater
disposal, funding be included for some expatriate management of thd
system after
completion.
Funding for training of local personnel, both formal y and on the
job, to take on the responsibility of management and operation
should also be included.
Table 6 presents a summary of the adequacy of the water suppily, sanitary
disposal
of human waste,
solid waste disposal
and
vector
(rats,
mosquitoes) control problems in the 20 islands surveyed as a part
this health plan.
flies,
and
developing
This represents about 82% of the total populdtion of the
Marshall Islands served by the facilities which were evaluated in
The adequacy of fresh water supplies in all the outer atoll¢?
is survey.
was mainly
based on approximate sizes and numbers of rainfall catchments and] cisterns or
tanks related to the number of people served and the rainfall amoun » except for
Enewetak
where
the
sizes
were
measured
and
numbers
determined
A water
consumption of 20 gallons per person per day was used for the Marshall Islands.
This
value
is
low because water
is
usually not used for flushing toilets,
watering lawns or running washing machines etc. and there is partial
ubstitution
of drinking water by the use of coconuts and bottled and canned be erages.
In
spite of low water usage, during low rainfall months water shortages
especially if there are no reserve or emergency storage tanks or cisterns on the
island.
No sanitary surveys of potable drinking water have been done
atolls.
pn the outer
Poor sanitary quality on these islands was assessed by obs
by questioning the health assistant and/or magistrate.
Only 4 of the 20 islands surveyed had adequate reserve or emerg
capacity while at least 7 were inadequate to meet present needs, at
east not at
Ebeye's water usage has been on
around 10
gallons per person per day over the last 2 years and they still have
o buy water
20 gallons per person per day.
from Kwajalein Missile Range almost every month.
When the new airpo t catchment
in Majuro is completed along with the new expanded reservoir abou
20 million
gallons per month can be caught and stored which is more than adegq ate for the
present population.
and quality)
But in order to adequately deliver that water
the distribution system will
have to be repaired
(possible funding from Community Improvement Grants appropriated
[in quantity
and replaced
py the U.S.
Congress, U.S. Housing and Urban Development Grants, etc.).
The sanitary quality of the potable water systems in Majuro
questionable.
total
dnd Ebeye is
The free residual chlorine level should be tested daily and the
coliform bacteriological
test 2 or 3 times weekly.
10
ThiB
increased