Water purification plants (especially in large cities which recycle their sewage waste right back into the drinking supply) will hopefully get prioritized for energy allocations when rationing starts.

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When storms hit, these systems can overflow, sending untreated sewage into rivers, lakes, beaches, and drinking water supplies.

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If all goes according to plan, by the year 2001, the city's sewage water will be treated and recycled right into the drinking tap.

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While the source of water currently received by the Hubli-Dharwad Municipal Corporation is filtered, sewage leakage and the poor management of waste often contaminates drinking water on its way into the homes.

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One year later, Jones joined a number of state and private efforts to rebuild Liberia by setting up FACE Africa, a U.S.-based non-profit organization that's working to provide access to clean drinking water in Liberia's rural communities, where running water and sewage infrastructure is often a rare luxury.

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Delhi draws three-quarters of its drinking water from the Yamuna river, into which the city dumps quantities of sewage, almost all of it untreated, to join a cocktail of farm chemicals and industrial effluents, including arsenic.

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