!!!Trinkwasserversorgung

Drinking Water Supply: More than 185 waterworks are members of the 
Oesterreichische Vereinigung fuer das Gas- und Wasserfach (OeVGW, 
Austrian gas and water authorities). These waterworks supply drinking 
water for almost 5.1 million Austrians (63.3% of the Austrian 
population). 1.08 million Austrians are supplied by smaller 
regional waterworks, thus almost 7 million Austrians are supplied 
by central water supply systems. Only about 1 million have their 
own supply systems (wells, springs). The total amount of water 
withdrawn in Austria in 1993 was about 
730 million m%%sup 3/%. About equal amounts of groundwater 
and springwater are utilized by the Austrian waterworks (mainly on 
account of the existence of a special springwater supply system for 
Vienna). The amount of surface water utilized for the provision of 
drinking water is less than 1%.

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The entire length of the water pipe network of the Austrian waterworks 
is about 26,000 km, of which more than 20,000 km are 
distribution pipes and the remaining 6,000 are supply pipes. The 
waterworks have installed more than 599,000 connections with about 
615,000 meters to measure the volume of water used. In 1993 the 
waterworks made investments of about 1.1 billion ATS supply 
areas with more than 20,000 inhabitants. The average daily consumption 
of water in Austrian households is 130-135 l/per head. The 
highest water authority in Austria is the Federal Ministry of 
Agriculture and Forestry.


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