Improved | Unimproved | |
---|---|---|
Use of drinking water | Piped water into dwelling yard or plot | Unprotected dug well |
Public tap or standpipe | Unprotected spring | |
Tube well or borehole | Cart with small tank or drum | |
Protected spring | Tanker truck | |
Protected dug well | Surface water (river, dam, lake, pond, stream, canal, irrigation channel) | |
Rain water collection | Bottled water (considered to be improved only when the household uses drinking water from an improved source for cooking and personal hygiene) | |
Use of sanitation | Flush or pour flush to a piped sewer system, septic tank or pit latrine | Flush or pour-flush to elsewhere (ie, not to piped sewer system, septic tank or pit latrine) |
Ventilated improved pit | Pit latrine without slab, or open pit | |
Pit latrine with slab | Bucket | |
Composting toilet | Hanging toilet or hanging latrine | |
Shared or public facilities of any type |
Adapted from the WHO/UNICEF Joint Monitoring Programme.21