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Economic and gender benefits from domestic water supply

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posted on 2018-02-12, 15:09 authored by Christine van Wijk, Reema Nanavatti, Jennifer Francis, Mihir Bhatt, Joep Verhagen, A.J. James
Most domestic water projects are only designed and managed to improve welfare and health. Yet in (semi) arid areas, where water is a serious development constraint, women may use water and time gains also for economic purposes. This project investigated the scope and value of such uses and the impact on gender relations in north Gujarat (India). The research used case studies and PRA methods with women focus groups and also interviewed men. This paper presents the results and discusses the implications for the design and management of rural water services in (semi)arid areas.

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  • Architecture, Building and Civil Engineering

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  • Water, Engineering and Development Centre (WEDC)

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VAN WIJK, C. ... et al, 2001. Economic and gender benefits from domestic water supply. IN: Scott, R. (ed). People and systems for water, sanitation and health: Proceedings of the 27th WEDC International Conference, Lusaka, Zambia, 20-24 August 2001, pp. 452-455.

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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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2001

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