Inadequate equipment

While the necessary skills for water pollution management are available in most central and eastern European countries in 1994, local personnel often do not possess the appropriate methods, technologies and tools.

1. Limited access to society's resources
2. Inadequate working conditions

1. Unsafe industrial, laboratory and medical equipment
2. Unavailable road machinery
3. Unavailability of construction equipment
4. Scarcity of hand tools
5. Old musical instruments
6. Obsolete machinery
7. Limited plumbing material
8. Limited farm mechanization
9. Limited drilling equipment
10. Lack of specialized technology
11. Lack of shared machinery
12. Lack of lumber tools
13. Lack of irrigation equipment
14. Insufficient educational material
15. Inadequate maintenance equipment

1. Shortage of equipment and materials needed to act against problems
2. Prolonged repair services
3. Overpriced equipment replacement parts
4. Insufficient means for community initiative
5. Ineffective fishing methods
6. Inadequate industrial services
7. Conflicting demands on available machinery
8. Community demoralization

1. Unsurveyed consumer needs
2. Underutilization of second-hand equipment
3. Technological underdevelopment
4. Long-term shortage of machinery and transport equipment
5. Inappropriate emphasis on prestige technology
6. Acquisition of inappropriate equipment

1. Replacing worn out implements
2. Reducing mechanical breakdown problems
3. Providing sufficient tools
4. Providing equipment
5. Increasing amount of non-electrical machinery
6. Improving equipment
7. Doing without adequate tools
8. Breaking equipment