The paper presents the variability in tap water consumption in a 17-thousand poviat town located in the eastern part of the Lesser Poland voivodeship. The recipients were divided into households, industrial plants, service facilities along with other recipients. Based on the analysis conducted in a multi-year period of 2000-2012, with a decrease in the total water consumption by 15.0%, the water consumption indicators were determined in relation to one connection to the water supply network of individual water consumers. Their mean values were 0.744; 60,359 and 1.606 m3× d-1, respectively. During the study period the mentioned indicators decreased - by 31.2% in the case of households, by 43.8% for service facilities, while in the case of industrial plants they increased by 15.0%. The conversion water consumption per capita in households was also determined as an average of 82.96 dm3× d-1. This ratio decreased from 91.08 dm3× d-1 in 2000 to 79.57 dm3× d-1 in 2012 (reduction by 12.6%). In the structure of water consumption, households were the predominant users (52.0%) followed by industry (30.8%) while the remaining amount of water (17.2 %) was consumed by service facilities along with other recipients. ...
The paper assesses the development level of water and sewerage infrastructure in the Kujawsko-Pomorskie voivodeship in the period of 1999-2014. The analysis included the infrastructure in 144 communes. The outcome has ascertained large irregularity in water and sewerage network coverage saturation in particular years, especially in southern and eastern parts of the voivodeship. The growth dynamics of the sewerage network surpasses the water network growth in the analyzed period but still does not reach the development degree of the water system. The Kujawsko-Pomorskie voivodeship has the second densest water network in Poland. However, taking into account sewerage network density, it is ninth. Disproportion in both networks development degree is mitigated by building household sewage treatment plants, especially in the communes with lower population density, in which building sewerage network is too expensive. In 2014 two communes had no sewerage network at all and two others had that network very sparse (over 100 km of water network per 1 km of sewerage network). The most intense water and sewerage infrastructure development was recorded in 2007 and 2014, mainly in rural and urban-rural areas. It is related to increased expenditure on water and sewerage infrastructure within the Regional Operational Programme in the ...
