Water is the most essential component of life and is vital for sustenance. The importance of water in our diet is apparent as it helps the body to perform specific metabolic tasks and regulates our body temperature. Water is vital to all forms of life. Poor quality water can result in disease and death. Water is needed for good hygiene practices, such as hand washing. Without adequate water people cannot use good hygiene practices and are vulnerable to hygiene related illnesses and deaths, such a diarrhea.
Water is crucial not only for daily consumption by the people and for herders to maintain their livestock, but also for Mongolia’s economic development as an essential resource for industries such as the mining sector, which has driven the country’s economic growth. Water quantity and quality is also becoming a problem increasingly in the capital Ulaanbaatar. With nearly 50 percent of the population living in Ulaanbaatar, ensuring that there is sufficient and safe water for everyone is a challenge.
Water resources of Mongolia are highly vulnerable to climatic conditions. Mongolia has harsh continental climate with four distinctive seasons, high annual temperature fluctuations, and low rainfall. As a result of climate change, hundreds of Mongolia’s lakes and rivers have dried up, and there is significant desertification of land especially in the south around the Gobi desert.
Providing a clean supply of drinking water across the entire country is a difficult challenge – beginning with the need to lay freeze-proof water pipes over an area of 1.5 million square kilometers.

We should teach children to turn off faucets tightly after use, adjust sprinklers to water your lawn.We have to use high quality water to prevent from some diseases.The most important thing is government have to implement project of water quality and sanitation.