Access to potable water is rare in rural areas.
Nearly 70percentt of Haitians lack regular and direct access to potable water, experts say.
"We have people living in third-world conditions with no access to potable water or sanitation.
The result is then reduced, by the addition of distilled water, to potable proof.
The world's biggest soft-drink producers and bottlers see that they cannot manufacture their products without access to potable water.
According to the World Bank, 58m Latin Americans lack access to potable water and 137m lack sewerage.
Opinion polls suggest that access to potable water ranks fourth in public concerns, after jobs, crime and more paved roads.
For three months, I researched sites for hand-pumps and wells to be built in villages that have no access to potable water.
Although this water is treated to potable standards, we're not going to feed it into the potable water system; it will go to agriculture and so on.
To be sure, half of Nigeria's population lacks access to potable water, and the infant mortality rate is 1 in 10 births.
Most of the country now has access to potable water, and three-quarters of all households have electricity and access to sanitation.
