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Sustainability of community water management in small towns of developing countries: case studies from Ghana

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posted on 2018-10-29, 12:49 authored by Steve R.K. Doe
This thesis investigated the sustainability of community water management in small towns of developing countries by using case studies from Ghana. Sustainability is investigated as a multi-faceted concept encompassing technical, managerial, institutional and organisational issues. The study is particularly relevant because over one billion of the world's population lacks access to safe drinking water with resultant poverty, morbidity and mortality among the World's most vulnerable, a significant proportion of who live in small towns of developing countries. Small town dwellers are likely to increase thus exacerbating the existing situation of poor sustainable water services. Efforts at providing solutions, largely through the public sector, were found to be ineffective and inefficient. Consequently, many governments have adopted community management a key paradigm for rural water supply and sanitation for small towns. The thesis however, hypothesises that community management is limited in achieving sustainable water supply solutions in small towns; hence modifications are needed in approach to the issues of small-town water supply. [Continues.]

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Loughborough University, WEDC and Great Britain, Department for International Developement (KaR project).

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  • Architecture, Building and Civil Engineering

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© Steve Doe

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This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/

Publication date

2003

Notes

A Doctoral Thesis. Submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the award of Doctor of Philosophy at Loughborough University.

Language

  • en

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