Global water policy and local payment choices in rural Africa
| Autor: | Rob Hope, Paola Ballon |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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Service (business)
Sustainable development Finance lcsh:TD201-500 business.industry Service delivery framework media_common.quotation_subject 0208 environmental biotechnology 02 engineering and technology 010501 environmental sciences Management Monitoring Policy and Law Payment Investment (macroeconomics) 01 natural sciences Pollution A share 020801 environmental engineering lcsh:Water supply for domestic and industrial purposes Quality (business) Business Cash management Waste Management and Disposal 0105 earth and related environmental sciences Water Science and Technology media_common |
| Zdroj: | npj Clean Water, Vol 2, Iss 1, Pp 1-9 (2019) |
| ISSN: | 2059-7037 |
| Popis: | Sub-Saharan Africa is least likely to meet the Sustainable Development Goal for safely-managed drinking water. Africa is estimated to require at least three times more annual investment, as a share of the gross regional product, than any other region to achieve ‘basic’ drinking water for everyone by 2030. If rural water users are to share some of these costs then the performance of current services needs to improve. In Africa, when a rural waterpoint fails, it takes a month or more to repair. We model water user choices across maintenance service models delivered by public, private and community providers with trade-offs in speed of repairing faults, payment levels and cash management. We find higher payments are associated with higher education and faster repair times. Household wealth, sex of respondent, seasonality, and waterpoint congestion, reliability and quality all influence payment choices. Understanding local payment choices provide behavioural clues to design more sustainable funding and service delivery models to align global and local drinking water goals. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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