Factors Influencing Revenue Collection for Preventative Maintenance of Community Water Systems: A Fuzzy-Set Qualitative Comparative Analysis

Olaerts, Liesbet; Walters, Jeffrey P.; Linden, Karl G.; Javernick‐Will, Amy; Harvey, Adam

doi:10.3390/su11133726

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“…Thus, our analysis provides further evidence of the limits of community management alone for ensuring sustainable and resilient water supplies 43 . External support can be provided in different ways with potential roles for government, civil society and the private sector increasingly discussed in the literature [44][45][46][47][48] .…”

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Comparative performance of rural water supplies during drought

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As rural African communities experience more frequent and extreme droughts, it is increasingly important that water supplies are climate resilient. Using a unique temporal dataset we explore rural water supply (n = 5196) performance during the 2015-16 drought in Ethiopia. Mean functionality ranged from 60% for motorised boreholes to 75% for handpumped boreholes. Real-time monitoring and responsive operation and maintenance led to rapid increases in functionality of hand-pumped and, to a lesser extent, motorised boreholes. Increased demand was placed on motorised boreholes in lowland areas as springs, hand-dugwells and open sources failed. Most users travelled >1 h to access motorised boreholes but <30 min, increasing to 30-60 mins, for hand-pumped boreholes. Boreholes accessing deep (>30 m) groundwater performed best during the drought. Prioritising access to groundwater via multiple improved sources and a portfolio of technologies, such as hand-pumped and motorised boreholes, supported by responsive and proactive operation and maintenance, increases rural water supply resilience.

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Comparative performance of rural water supplies during drought

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“…Sub-standard services show a positive correlation with an issue of infrastructure in all scenarios. Unreliable water points through either poor initial drilling, seasonal variations, poor water quality and user perception can impact the willingness to pay and collection of financial resources for crucial O&M. [44][45][46][47] This further impacts the serviceability of infrastructure and highlights a wider concern of sustainability in low-income countries.…”

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Barriers to handpump serviceability in Malawi: life-cycle costing for sustainable service delivery

Truslove

Coulson

Mblame

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Environ. Sci.: Water Res. Technol.

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“…Uganda [30] Applying approaches to enhance learning and behavior change will help bring about beneficial program outcomes from investments in training. [74] Therefore, programs of investment in professional training and support for operation for at least two years post-construction promote practicality in the system [59,72]. The financial and technical support of NGOs, received by some communities, can assist in training for machine operation in a structured way.…”

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Review of Community-Managed Water Supply—Factors Affecting Its Long-Term Sustainability

Machado

Oliveira

Matos

2022

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Although water is considered a human right, rural communities in many countries face challenges related to the lack of a safe water supply. In rural areas, where there is no access to public or private water supply, populations have no other choice than to rely on other unsafe sources of water. Community-managed water supply (CMWS) has emerged as an alternative to address the lack of access to safe water. Nonetheless, this alternative has several critical characteristics that harm the sustainability of water supplies. Studies on sustainability and the long-term impact of the CMWS were explored through a review of recent literature using Scopus and Web of Science databases, which analyzed 86 papers reporting on research into the sustainability and efficiency of water supply systems managed and operated by local communities, as well as the long-term critical factors that can interfere with the functionality of these systems. Based on the critical factors most cited in the literature, we proposed a framework of strategies that interrelate and integrate the critical factors into levels of responsibility. The most critical factors are related to the community level, such as inadequate capacity and ineffective systems. This demonstrates the relevance of local characteristics in the implementation of water management systems. The most cited sustainability strategies refer to the local level as the one requiring action to promote effective community involvement and post-construction support. The framework helps to conceptualize what we called an enabling environment for decision-making, and thus, the achievement of the long-term sustainability of water supply.

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Factors Influencing Revenue Collection for Preventative Maintenance of Community Water Systems: A Fuzzy-Set Qualitative Comparative Analysis

Cited by 18 publications

References 39 publications

Comparative performance of rural water supplies during drought

Comparative performance of rural water supplies during drought

Barriers to handpump serviceability in Malawi: life-cycle costing for sustainable service delivery

Review of Community-Managed Water Supply—Factors Affecting Its Long-Term Sustainability

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