sentences:  About 20.4% of the urban and 17.2% of the rural population has access to drinking water.The 2007 national census reported a total population for this woreda of 112,395, of whom 56,488 were men and 55,907 were women; 4,746 or 4.22% of its population were urban dwellers.The majority of the inhabitants were Moslem, with 85.64% of the population reporting they observed this belief, while 11.9% of the population said they practised Ethiopian Orthodox Christianity, and 2.36% were Protestant.