Safe drinking water is essential. The sources of drinking water may be improved or unimproved. An improved source includes sources that, by nature of their construction or through active intervention, are protected from outside contamination, particularly faecal matter these include piped into dwelling/yard/plot, piped to neighbor, public tap/standpipe, tube well/borehole, protected dug well, protected spring, rainwater, and bottled water/refilling station. Based on the results of the 2017 National Demographic and Health Survey (2017 NDHS), 95 percent of households in the Philippines got their drinking water from improved sources. Region XII was among those regions with high distribution of households whose drinking water came from improved sources. . . .