Trends in sub-Saharan rural water supply and the essential inclusion of Self-supply to achieve 2030 SDG targets

Sutton, Sally

doi:10.3362/1756-3488.17-00013

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“…The tendency for populations to self-supply is increasingly recognised as an important element of domestic water supplies in certain contexts, particularly where publiclyprovided water supplies are not present or regarded as unreliable [12,[19][20][21][22][23]. Often presented as a rural phenomenon or a coping strategy for the urban poor [21,24,25], the role played by middle-and upper-income urban households in sourcing their own water supplies is gradually being recognised [7]. Using modelling techniques, it has been estimated that up to 79% of the total urban population of continental Africa could potentially supply themselves with groundwater, with the likely number estimated at 32% [26].…”

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Monitoring Groundwater Use as a Domestic Water Source by Urban Households: Analysis of Data from Lagos State, Nigeria and Sub-Saharan Africa with Implications for Policy and Practice

Danert

Healy

2021

Water

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The fundamental importance of groundwater for urban drinking water supplies in sub-Saharan Africa is increasingly recognised. However, little is known about the trends in urban groundwater development by individual households and its role in securing safely-managed drinking water supplies. Anecdotal evidence indicates a thriving self-supply movement to exploit groundwater in some urban sub-Saharan African settings, but empirical evidence, or analysis of the benefits and drawbacks, remains sparse. Through a detailed analysis of official datasets for Lagos State, Nigeria we examine the crucial role played by groundwater and, specifically, by household self-supply for domestic water provision. We then set this in the context of Nigeria and of sub-Saharan Africa. One of the novelties of this multi-scalar approach is that it provides a granular understanding from large-scale datasets. Our analysis confirms the importance of non-piped water supplies in meeting current and future drinking water demand by households in parts of sub-Saharan Africa and the role played, through self-supply, by groundwater. Our results demonstrate inconsistencies between datasets, and we make recommendations for the future. We argue that a key actor in the provision of drinking water supplies, the individual household, is largely overlooked by officially reported data, with implications for both policy and practice.

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Monitoring Groundwater Use as a Domestic Water Source by Urban Households: Analysis of Data from Lagos State, Nigeria and Sub-Saharan Africa with Implications for Policy and Practice

Danert

Healy

2021

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“…O fluxo de informações para a comunidade, que estimula a retroalimentação por meio da participação social efetiva, juntamente ao desenvolvimento socioeconômico e técnico do sistema, proporciona a transparência na gestão dos serviços e desperta o senso de pertencimento dos usuários em função do fortalecimento das relações entre o comitê de gestão e os demais indivíduos da comunidade (Madrigal;Alpízar;Schlüter, 2011;Kelly et al, 2017;Sutton, 2017;Rautanen;White, 2018). Além disso, colabora para o encorajamento da tomada de decisões e no incentivo ao senso de pertencimento e de liderança desses sistemas de distribuição, sendo a participação da mulher de suma importância nesses processos, previsto pelo ODS 5, uma vez que está intrinsecamente relacionada ao ODS 6, ou seja, ao sucesso da gestão comunitária de abastecimento de água, empoderando suas habilidades e sua autoconfiança (Madrigal; Alpízar; Schlüter, 2011; Kelly et al, 2017; ONU 2017).…”

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Cooperativas abertas e cooperativas modernas: Análise de dois conceitos para o cooperativismo contemporâneo

Lora¹

2020

Tópicos Em Administração – Volume 29

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“…It is important that water committees achieve synergy with supporting government institutions, community participants, and the entire local population to develop water supply management in rural communities [3,44,[66][67][68]. Without this support, management tends not to progress because of the problems arising from the lack of integration between the parties.…”

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“…Infrastructure development in these communities depends on raising financial resources that meet costs and developing operating systems as needed [23,76]. Some communities still suffer from inadequate funding, which makes it difficult to develop their infrastructure [66,79]. The ineffectiveness of watering points due to wear and tear and lack of equipment maintenance is a relevant factor that prevents communities from achieving quality in management; this is either due to the lack of foreign investment or taxation about the use of the resource [50,77,79].…”

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

Machado

Oliveira

Matos

2022

Water

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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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Trends in sub-Saharan rural water supply and the essential inclusion of Self-supply to achieve 2030 SDG targets

Cited by 10 publications

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Monitoring Groundwater Use as a Domestic Water Source by Urban Households: Analysis of Data from Lagos State, Nigeria and Sub-Saharan Africa with Implications for Policy and Practice

Monitoring Groundwater Use as a Domestic Water Source by Urban Households: Analysis of Data from Lagos State, Nigeria and Sub-Saharan Africa with Implications for Policy and Practice

Cooperativas abertas e cooperativas modernas: Análise de dois conceitos para o cooperativismo contemporâneo

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

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