The phrase "access to mains" is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used in contexts related to utilities, such as electricity or water supply, indicating the ability to connect to the main supply lines.
Example: "The new apartment offers easy access to mains electricity, ensuring a reliable power source for all appliances."
Alternatives: "connection to main supply" or "access to utility lines".
It's very convenient, assuming you've got access to mains water.
Around the world approximately 1.7 billion people still live off the grid, with no access to mains electricity.
Pioneered in Uganda, where 80% of the population has mobile phones but only 5% has access to mains electricity, the system offers customers access to a portable grid.
Woo Woo is a London-based company that installs dehydrating toilets for UK clients without access to mains sewerage, such as allotments.
The International Energy Agency estimates that 600m people in sub-Saharan Africa do not have access to mains electricity; only 40% of these would benefit from extending the grid.
But if those extra features appeal — if you're travelling with other people or equipment, for example, or have regular access to mains power — then this might be worth a look.
In many poor urban areas, from Bangkok to Nairobi, people must buy water from private vendors at a cost many times more – in some cases up to 50 times more –than those in the wealthier neighbourhoods who have access to water mains.
He meant that he could build the phone company ducts to run beneath the water main, thereby skirting the city's rule against phone company conduits on top of its main -- the city wants quick access to its water mains.
When Vivendi employees sought to shut off a nonpaying customer's water, Mr. Abdala and other protest organizers sent demonstrators who stood on manhole covers and blocked access to the water mains.
Since only about one-third of Myanmar's citizens have access to electricity from the mains, the government is also demanding that the country's domestic needs be met first.
It is, therefore, obvious that massive reliance on water tankers and other forms of water vending is neither as result of lower cost or more convenience but because of lack of access to water from public mains.
