Interviewer instructions
3. Water Supply
Verify whether the dwelling has water service provided through pipes that come from a public supply network or from a private facility.
In cases where the dwelling doesn't have pipes for their water supply, verify if the water is hauled in.
Mark the appropriate situation with an "X" in the corresponding box.
Whatever the system that provides the water supply to the dwelling, be it through pipes or hauled in, the origin must also be indicated, in other words, whether it comes from a public network of pipes, from a well or a water wheel (noria), or from some other source (spring, river, irrigation channel, etc.)
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A well or water wheel is a hole in the ground through which potable, subterranean water is collected. Mark an "X" in the corresponding box, depending on where the water used in the dwelling comes from.
Note that in all cases one box should be marked under the heading "The dwelling receives water" and another under the heading "The water comes from".
For example: in the case of a landlord's dwelling (casa patronal) in the middle of a rural area that has pipes for water service, with the water coming from a well, from which it is extracted by means of a pump. In this case, under the first heading box one will be checked, and under the second heading box two [will be checked].
In the case of a squatter settlement where the dwellings don't have pipes installed, but whose residents haul the water from a faucet or tap, or spout, fed by a pipe from a public network, under the first heading box two will be checked, and under the second heading box one [will be checked].
