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Community financing of rural water supplies in Timor-Leste

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posted on 2018-02-12, 15:11 authored by Alex Grumbley
Timor-Leste is a new and emerging nation that has a history of instability and a large rural population. There has been a significant investment in rural water supply infrastructure, however sustaining this infrastructure has proven to be a challenge. Current research has shown that community management and in particular community financing of the operation and maintenance of water supplies has been the main constraint to sustainability. This paper then investigates the actual costs of operation and maintenance of the infrastructure, what communities can afford to pay and the current reality of community financing of rural water supplies in Timor-Leste.

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  • Architecture, Building and Civil Engineering

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  • Water, Engineering and Development Centre (WEDC)

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GRUMBLEY, A., 2011. Community financing of rural water supplies in Timor-Leste. IN: Shaw, R.J. (ed). The future of water, sanitation and hygiene in low-income countries - Innovation, adaptation and engagement in a changing world: Proceedings of the 35th WEDC International Conference, Loughborough, UK, 6-8 July 2011, 8p.p.

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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/

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2011

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This is a conference paper.

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WEDC_ID:9976

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  • en

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