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2000 FSM Census of Chuuk StateChapter 12. HousingNorthern and Southern Namoneas (about 40 and 38 percent, respectively) was better than in Faichuk (about 17percent).Table 12.18. Water Supply of All Housing Units by Region, Chuuk State: 1994 and 20001994 Census 2000 CensusNumber Percent Number PercentTotal Hot & Cold No pipe Total Hot & Cold No pipe Total Hot & Cold No pipe Total Hot & Cold No pipeRegion units cold only water units cold only water units cold only water units cold only waterTotal 7,581 180 1,722 5,679 100.0 2.4 22.7 74.9 7,417 62 1,779 5,576 100.0 0.8 24.0 75.2Lagoon 5,823 173 1,690 3,960 100.0 3.0 29.0 68.0 5,585 59 1,756 3,770 100.0 1.1 31.4 67.5N. Namoneas 2,411 139 814 1,458 100.0 5.8 33.8 60.5 2,065 50 702 1,313 100.0 2.4 34.0 63.6S. Namoneas 1,645 20 599 1,026 100.0 1.2 36.4 62.4 1,745 4 609 1,132 100.0 0.2 34.9 64.9Faichuk 1,767 14 277 1,476 100.0 0.8 15.7 83.5 1,775 5 445 1,325 100.0 0.3 25.1 74.6Source: 1994 & 2000 FSM Censuses, H03Note: Piped water is only available in the Lagoon. The sources of water in the Outer Islands include individual cisterns and wells.Table 12.19 further presents the distribution of housing units in 1980, 1994 and 2000 by source of drinking water.Comparison of the data from the three censuses should be considered with caution because they differ in the level ofaggregation. The Department of Sanitation has been advising people to use water catchments as their main source ofdrinking water, which may have contributed to the shifting of the preference from piped water to catchment water.In all three years, the major source of drinking water was from catchments, tank and drums. In 2000, over 82 percentof all housing units reported catchments, tank and drums as their principal source of drinking water. Only about 6percent of all housing unit in 2000 reported public and community system as their source of drinking water.Table 12.19: Source of Drinking Water of All Housing Units, Chuuk State: 1980, 1994 and 2000Number Percent change PercentSource of drinking water 1980 1994 2000 1980-1994 1994-2000 1980 1994 2000Total 5,428 7,581 7,417 39.7 (2.2) 100.0 100.0 100.0Public & community systems 738 759 447 2.8 (41.1) 13.6 10.0 6.0Individual well 835 606 321 (27.4) (47.0) 15.4 8.0 4.3Catchment, tank, drums 2563 5,256 6122 105.1 16.5 47.2 69.3 82.5Public stand pipe 218 75 31 (65.6) (58.7) 4.0 1.0 0.4Others 1,074 885 496 (17.6) (44.0) 19.8 11.7 6.7Source: 1980 TTPI Census; 1994 & 2000 FSM Censuses, H03.Table 12.20 further examines source of drinking water in 1994 and 2000 by region. As can be seen from this table,significant variations existed in the source of drinking water between the regions in the Lagoon and in the OuterIslands. In 2000, almost all housing units in the Outer Islands reported water catchments, tanks and drums as theirsource of drinking water. The corresponding percentage in the lagoon was 77 percent. Individual well was reported tobe the second source of drinking water in Northern Namoneas. For Southern Namoneas and Faichuk, the secondsource was the category, “other” which include rivers and streams. Piped water from Chuuk Utilities Corporation wasavailable only in Weno, where only 26 percent of the total housing units were located. Thus, availability of drinkingwater from piped water in the regions aside from Northern Namoneas was not an alternative.Table 12.20: Source of Drinking Water of All Housing Units by Region, Chuuk State: 1994 and 2000Source of drinking waterPublic Comm. Pub. system Comm. sys. IndividualRegion Total Percent sys.only sys. only & catchment & catchment wellCatchmenttank & drumPublicstand pipePurchasedbottled water Others1994Total 7,581 100.0 3.4 2.6 1.8 2.2 8.0 69.3 1.0 0.8 10.8Lagoon 5,823 100.0 4.4 3.3 2.2 2.2 10.1 61.4 1.3 1.0 14.0N. Namoneas 2,411 100.0 9.5 0.7 4.1 2.0 5.9 67.2 0.5 0.4 9.5S. Namoneas 1,645 100.0 0.3 9.6 1.1 3.8 8.8 57.6 3.3 1.3 14.2Faichuk 1,767 100.0 1.2 0.9 0.6 1.1 17.0 57.0 0.5 1.7 20.0Outer Islands 1,758 100.0 … 0.2 0.6 2.1 1.0 95.5 - 0.2 0.32000Total 7,417 100.0 0.9 2.0 1.1 2.1 4.3 82.5 0.4 0.2 6.5Lagoon 5,585 100.0 1.2 2.6 1.5 2.6 5.7 77.1 0.6 0.2 8.6N. Namoneas 2,065 100.0 2.7 1.2 2.5 3.6 2.5 81.2 0.1 0.3 5.9S. Namoneas 1,745 100.0 0.5 4.0 1.3 3.6 8.4 72.7 0.1 0.1 9.5Faichuk 1,775 100.0 0.1 2.8 0.5 0.6 6.7 76.7 1.5 0.2 10.9Outer Islands 1,832 100.0 - 0.1 - 0.4 0.2 99.1 - 0.1 0.1Source: 1994 & 2000 FSM Censuses, H03.Chuuk Branch Statistics Office, Division of Statistics, FSM Department of Economic Affairs 121