Survey of water use behaviour in rural North Ghana

Kendie, Stephen B.

doi:10.1111/j.1477-8947.1992.tb00558.x

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“…In Black Tickle, seasonal work elsewhere and the remittance economy are altering women's water experiences. Here, as in sub‐Saharan Africa, gender remains a key factor and, significantly, the interrelationship between gender roles and water insecurity makes women feel powerless to varying degrees (Kendie ), meaning that water security is a vehicle through which women's disempowerment is maintained. Studies of this nature can help to explain environmental sexism and expose maps of power as understood by Doreen Massey ().…”

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Gender and water insecurity in a subarctic Indigenous community

Hanrahan

Mercer

2018

Canadian Geographies / Géographies canadiennes

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Indigenous communities in Canada suffer disproportionately from compromised water insecurity, with multiple negative implications. Some attention has been paid to gender and water insecurity in developing countries, especially in sub‐Saharan Africa, but the topic has been neglected for subarctic settings. We conducted long‐term research in Black Tickle, a remote Inuit community in Labrador, Canada, with no piped water and limited access to potable water. Our research was aimed at understanding the multiple dimensions of water security, identifying materialist responses, and conducting a pilot project in domestic rainwater harvesting. Water security emerged as a gendered phenomenon. We supplemented our reflective analysis on this research with two focus group discussions during which Inuit women described their experiences of water security. Participants reported that their physical and mental health are undermined by water insecurity and that water is a source of multiple stresses that demand resilience. Given a developing remittance economy, gender was identified as an increasingly significant determinant of water insecurity in this subarctic community. Having to retrieve water themselves, Inuit women experience altered gender norms and a persistent values conflict in addition to physical strain. Water acquisition is an added responsibility, impacting their labour load. Alternatively, in relying on available men to retrieve water, participants reported feeling guilty and anxious and they worried about men fetching water in dangerous weather conditions and in the vicinity of dangerous wildlife. Participants’ experiences make clear the urgency for a materialist response to water insecurity in the Indigenous subarctic.

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Section: Resultsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Gender and water insecurity in a subarctic Indigenous community

Hanrahan

Mercer

2018

Canadian Geographies / Géographies canadiennes

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“…The first three communities in Table 1, Dalun Station, Dalun Nayili Fon, and Dalun Kanbong Naa Fon are subsections of Dalun, which collectively consider the Nawuni Dam and the White Volta River as their environmental resources. This claim on the water resource influences their water use behaviour negatively, especially in terms of payment for water (see Whittington et al 1991;Kendie 1992). Table 1 shows that for the service year 2006 (before the TSP intervention), the total annual water tariffs (debit balances) were GH¢1441.17, GH¢2599.91 and GH¢1675.99 for Dalun Station, Dalun Nayili Fon, and Dalun Kanbong Naa Fon respectively.…”

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confidence: 97%

“…According to POI (2008), about 85% of the people of Dalun are engaged in food crop farming. The rain-fed nature of this sector in northern Ghana means that the income flow of the farmers is also annual (Kendie 1992). Thus, immediately after harvest, farming households are monetised enough to adequately pay for utility services including water.…”

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Water tariff conflict resolution through indigenous participation in tri-water sector partnerships: Dalun cluster communities in northern Ghana

Galaa¹,

Bukari²

2014

Development in Practice

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The paper examines how the perceived ownership of a water resource negatively influenced local people's attitudes towards payment of potable water tariffs and exacerbated conflicts between water users and service providers in the Dalun community of the northern region of Ghana. The paper presents a case study of how community participation and endogenous approaches to conflict resolution contributed to payment of water tariffs. The findings show that the establishment of a tri-water sector partnership (TWSP), consisting of the Ghana Water Company Ltd (GWCL), private sector development practitioners, and community water boards, led to positive mediation of water tariff conflicts using the institution of chieftaincy. Alternative, endogenous conflict resolution methods combined with modern methods in a tripartite partnership showed promise as an approach to managing conflicts in water projects and in broader poverty reduction efforts.Cet article traite de la façon dont la propriété perçue d'une ressource en eau a exercé une influence négative sur les attitudes de la population locale à l'égard du paiement du prix de l'approvisionnement en eau potable et exacerbé les conflits entre les utilisateurs de l'eau et les prestataires du service au sein de la communauté Dalun, dans la région du nord du Ghana. Cet article présente une étude de cas de la manière dont la participation communautaire et des approches endogènes de la résolution des conflits ont contribué au paiement de l'eau. Les conclusions montrent que l'établissement d'un partenariat tripartite dans le secteur de l'eau (tri-water sector partnership -TWSP), composé de la Ghana Water Company Ltd (GWCL), de praticiens du développement du secteur privé et des directions de l'eau au niveau des communautés, a abouti à une médiation positive des prix de l'eau en utilisant l'institution de la chefferie. Des méthodes de résolution des conflits alternatives et endogènes, conjuguées à des méthodes modernes dans le cadre d'un partenariat tripartite, se sont révélées prometteuses comme approche de gestion des conflits dans les projets d'approvisionnement en eau et dans le cadre d'efforts plus larges de réduction de la pauvreté.El presente artículo examina la forma en que la percepción de la propiedad de un recurso de agua por parte de una comunidad dalun en el norte de Ghana incidió negativamente en las actitudes de las personas a la hora de pagar las tarifas de agua potable, agudizando los conflictos entre los usuarios y las empresas proveedoras del servicio. Se presenta un estudio de caso que analiza la manera en que la participación comunitaria y los enfoques endógenos aplicados a la resolución de conflictos ayudaron a facilitar el pago del agua. Los hallazgos en este sentido dan cuenta de que la creación de una alianza tripartita en el sector agua (TWSP) -integrada por la Empresa de Agua de Ghana (GWCL), los operadores de desarrollo del sector privado y las juntas de agua locales-facilitaron una mediación positiva de los conflictos surgidos a raíz de las tarifas de agua...

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“…This is not so with the distillers although they are known to be heavy polluters of adjacent water bodies. Given that most rural areas depend on these streams for drinking water, the need to document their impact is obvious (Amonoo et al, 1985;Kendie, 1992).…”

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Some Polluting Effects of Small‐Scale Industrial Production in theCentral Region of Ghana

Kendie

Johnson²

1999

Singap J Trop Geogr

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Environmental impact assessments in developing countries are generally required for new large and medium-scale enterprises. However, a larger proportion of production takes place in the very small and micro-scale sector. This sector is characterised by low incomes and high levels of illiteracy among the operators, both of which limit awareness of the polluting effects of their activities. The paper examines the environmental impacts of small-scale alcohol distilleries in the rural areas of the Central region of Ghana. The distillers covered in the study lacked information about the pollution they caused and continued to discharge large volumes of stillage (hot wastewater) into adjoining streams which are important sources of drinking water supply in rural Ghana. The discharge of waste products from the distilleries polluted the streams with negative implications for aquatic life as well as human health. *US$1 = 2.75 cedis Source: West Africa Programmes Department, World Bank (1983).

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Survey of water use behaviour in rural North Ghana

Cited by 6 publications

References 13 publications

Gender and water insecurity in a subarctic Indigenous community

Gender and water insecurity in a subarctic Indigenous community

Water tariff conflict resolution through indigenous participation in tri-water sector partnerships: Dalun cluster communities in northern Ghana

Some Polluting Effects of Small‐Scale Industrial Production in theCentral Region of Ghana

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