Specifika místních vodních zdrojů při zásobování obyvatelstva pitnou vodou

Relationships between Insufficient Drinking Water Supply and the Socio-Economic Development of Small Municipalities: Mayors’ Opinions from the Czech Republic

“…However, 578,000 inhabitants of the Czech Republic still have no secured supply of drinking water from a water supply connection. There are hundreds of water supplies with insufficient drinking water quality or a poor technical or operational quality of the supply system [27,28]. The third significant group of issues concerning the availability of drinking water is connected to the capacity of the present water supply infrastructure and the possibilities of its development in municipalities where new housing construction is taking place and the number of inhabitants is growing.…”

“…In order to reduce distortion and heighten the quality of acquired data, question sequence rotation was used. Based on the professional assessment and methodology of other studies [5,7,12,27], individual sub-questions were assigned weights which were entered into the DWSTI calculation. For the allocation of weights, the sub-questions A1-A10 were divided into three categories according to the potential impact on insufficient drinking water supply: (a) major problems (weight 0.2); (b) partial problems (weight 0.1); (c) additional indications of possible problems (weight 0.05).…”

“…There is justified concern that the local supply of ground water may not keep up with uncontrolled extraction for the needs of individual households. In recent years, these local sources in individual cases have already reached their limit and municipalities have had to deal with the temporary, provisional supply of drinking water [17,27]. Heightened interest in the use of local sources of ground water has also been recorded abroad [11].…”