CARICOM CAPACITY DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME (CCDP)

National Census Report 2001, St. Vincent and the Grenadinesadditional 4 455 or 14.6 per cent of households and 167 or 0.55 per cent of households had tofetch this source of water from public standpipes, or public wells and tanks respectively.Kingstown had the highest proportion of households with public water piped into dwelling(74.32) followed by Calliaqua (70.98) while the lowest percentages were Southern and NorthernGrenadines with 1.21 and 1.35 per cents respectively. On the other hand, Calliaqua had thehighest percentage of households (29.2 percent or 4658) compared to Kingston (18.6 percent or2960) of the total households (15 936) with public water into dwelling.The households in Sandy Bay (32.32 per cent), Barrouallie (25.11 per cent) and Marriaqua(24.25 per cent) were more likely than those in the other administrative divisions to have hadpublic water piped into the yard, while public stand pipe was more commonly used inChateaubelair (39.11 per cent), Colonarie (33.22 per cent) and Georgetown (28.90 per cent).Compared to 1991, the use of public water supply piped into dwelling and yard has increased by76.15 and 33.72 per cent respectively, while the use of public stand pipe, wells or tanks hasdeclined by 44.06 and 43.66 per cent respectively. These changes are the result of government'sefforts to increase the access of potable water to all. Nevertheless, there remains a need forfurther expansion in areas where the use of public stand pipe is still relatively high.The use of private water supply was much lower than public supply with only 9.98 per cent(3 046) of households relying on this source in 2001. However, in North and South Grenadines,almost all the households used this source, 96.11 and 89.53 per cent respectively. There is nopublic water supply in these two administrative divisions.83