Table 1.

Share of each rural population’s source of drinking water in Malawi

Water source	1998, %	2008, %
Clean drinking water
Piped inside dwelling unit	0.62	0.67
Piped outside dwelling unit	2.91	1.54
Communal stand pipe	8.08	6.69
Protected well	11.89	6.39
Borehole	29.71	53.94
Spring	1.29	0.59
Unsafe drinking water
Unprotected well	28.69	20.21
Stream/river	14.86	7.85
Pond/lake/dam	1.70	0.79
Others	0.24	1.32
Total	100.00	100.00

Data from refs. 34 and 35; calculated by the authors.