The Problem of Drinking Water in Small Agglomerations and its Implications for Regional Development in Siliana, Tunisia
| Autor: | Mohsen Trabelsi |
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| Rok vydání: | 1979 |
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Urban agglomeration Restructuring business.industry media_common.quotation_subject Geography Planning and Development Population Social change Water supply Distribution (economics) Geography Promotion (rank) Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) Urban planning Anthropology education Water resource management business Environmental planning media_common |
| Zdroj: | Africa. 49:302-307 |
| ISSN: | 1750-0184 0001-9720 |
| Popis: | U RBAN planning cannot be conceived in isolation: rural development is also essential for solving urban problems (Trabelsi 1978). Nor can rural development be achieved without an accompanying urban development policy and both must be integrated into a framework of regional development planning, itself part of the national social development plan (Trabelsi 1979). The modern conception is of a region evolving in an organised space around at least a second order town as a pole of development. In Tunisia the rural population is not very far advanced in its restructuring round secondary urban centres as development poles at the micro-regional level. Regional development aims at simultaneous promotion of small urban centres and rural zones as a micro-regional unity. The region of Siliana is a typical example of the importance of the services provided by small centres for regional development, and an indication that rural development is actually blocked if they are lacking. By the law of June 1974, Siliana became the centre of a governorate, in order to promote the seven delegations into which the 575,825 hectares of the governorate are divided. Siliana is one of the least favoured regions of Tunisia, with dispersed population only 170% urbanized. The supply of drinking water to eleven localities in the different delegations is one of the most urgent projects for improving living conditions. To measure its success, we must describe the present system of distribution of drinking water and the general conditions of living, and evaluate the direct and indirect results of the project. |
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