sentences:  About 75% of the urban and 5.9% of the rural population have access to drinking water.The 2007 national census reported a total population for this woreda of 161,338, of whom 81,462 were men and 79,876 were women; 14,842 or 9.2% of its population were urban dwellers.The majority of the inhabitants were Moslem, with 72.6% of the population reporting they observed this belief, while 24.41% of the population said they practised Ethiopian Orthodox Christianity, and 2.72% were Protestant.