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    Rural Households` Access to Domestic Water use in the Sebeta Hawas Disrict, Oromia Region, Ethiopia
    (Addis Ababa University, 2015-06) Misgana, Meseret; Abegaz, Assefa (PhD)
    The objective of this research is examining rural households` access to domestic water use in the Sebeta Hawas district, Oromia Region, Ethiopia. The major determinants to amount of water consumption are time from source of water and price. The paper analyzes households` water use both in the rainy and dry seasons. Via stratifying random sampling and purposive sampling techniques sorted the district in to four parts based on water accessibility. From total of 1764 households 120 households were interviewed using structured and semi structured questionnaire. SPSS software has been used for data analysis. Using the logit model for water demand that the paper found to be water demand is price inelastic. The vital determinates of water use are household size, education level, occupation of household head and distance. The survey result shows that more than half of the population consumed unsafe water in the dry seasons. Majority of rural household drinking water sources were surface water. It was contaminated by animals, birds, worm, insects and uncontrolled flooding. Maintaining and preserving of these sources is less compared to improved water source. The sampled rural households’ have the amount of water consumption in liters per day per household were 99.75liters in the rainy seasons and 118 liters in the dry seasons. Household apparently has small volume of available water per capital. The average water use was 14.25 and 16.86 Liters per capita per day in the rainy and dry seasons respectively. Amount of water demand liter per day exceeds supply in the study areas. Alternative water source of rural households` are protected and unprotected water sources. Many household uses unprotected sources. Water source required to be clearness of surrounding and protected from contamination. Households were dissatisfied with water supply services. The household satisfaction has been 34 percent in water supply service. Reliability of water supply sources was not good. Due to some water supply service was ceased