Water Economics and Governance
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2024-03-28T16:01:53ZINVESTIGATING THE IMPACT OF PREPAID METERS ON COMMUNAL WATER POINTS IN MALAWI: A CASE STUDY OF LILONGWE PER-URBAN AREAS.
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INVESTIGATING THE IMPACT OF PREPAID METERS ON COMMUNAL WATER POINTS IN MALAWI: A CASE STUDY OF LILONGWE PER-URBAN AREAS.
CHIUMYA, Don
Water is usually obtained from communal water points such as kiosks in Lilongwe's peri-urban
areas. Increased indebtedness, which resulted in more waterpoints being disconnected,
prompted the Lilongwe Water Board to implement a new prepaid metering system, known in
Malawi as the E-Madzi system, in order to provide access to water 24 hours a day, seven days
a week and increase revenue collection. The purpose of this study was to look at the impact of
prepaid meters on communal water points in three communities: Kawale 1, Kawale 2, and
Mchezi. The study's goals were to examine the impact of prepaid meters on water affordability,
people's perceptions of the new system, the influence of prepaid meters on revenue collection,
and the reliability of the prepaid metering system. A total of 111 households who uses prepaid
metering systems were sampled, a questionnaire and focus group discussion were used to
collect data. The findings revealed that 98.2 percent of the sampled households were pleased
with the new system because it has made water more affordable and people can access water
on a daily basis, while the remaining 1.8 percent were dissatisfied because it does not allow
residents to draw water on credit because they must pay before use, and there is low pressure
at the water point when the weather is cloudy. Finally, this study recommended that the
Lilongwe Water Board should consider re-sizing the system in order to calculate the energy
daily requirement which will ensure water access even during the cloudy days
2021-11-17T00:00:00ZAssessing the use of Digitalization and Artificial Intelligent in the measurement of progress and the implementation of SDG 6 alongwith synergy and tradeoffs with 2, 7 in Africa.
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Assessing the use of Digitalization and Artificial Intelligent in the measurement of progress and the implementation of SDG 6 alongwith synergy and tradeoffs with 2, 7 in Africa.
COMLAN SESSI, Vicky Phemia
The United Nations has formulated integrated global goals for transformation with targets and indicators. These goals are aligned with those of Agenda 2063 which is presented as a strategic framework for structural transformations and sustainable development with the support of digitalization and artificial intelligence as tools with great potential to accelerate the achievement of integrated objectives. However, there is little clear on how digitalization and artificial intelligence can enable the goals for positive and sustainable transformation. This work aim to explores the degree that the digitalization and Artificial Intelligent has been used to measure progress and in the implementation on the SDG 6 with alongsynergy and trade-offs with 2, 7 in Africa. The Study is based on series of case studies. With the pairwise comparison to establish the lists of interconnected indicators that belong to the decision support tool based on multi-criteria analysis (MCA) and established the similitude between Agenda2063 targets. Sustainable Digitalization Matrix (DSM) has enabled the different practices and challenges of digitization and artificial intelligence for the progress and implementation of SDG 6 with synergy and trade-offs with 2, 7 in Africa. In order to establish the different pathways for the promotion of digitalization and artificial intelligence to achieve progress in the implementation of SDG 6 with synergy and compromises with 2, 7 in Africa.
The method used made it possible to establish 12 main indicators interconnect, the links that exist with the targets of Agenda 2063 and raise the potential of digitalization and artificial intelligence for progress. Therefore there is a large gap between knowledge and practices on the mutual relations between digitalization and artificial intelligent (D&AI) and SDGs research-based Nexus-based approach for promoting D&AI in order to benefit from the power of D&AI while minimizing these possible risks. Overall D&AI is a potential enabler end pathways for SDG progress and also represents a perspective for the effective use of D&AI for the SDG’s for making progress thought implementation of SDG 6 with synergies and trade-offs with 2, 7 in Africa, with a complexity of indicators and their transdisciplinary interactions of digital technologies that implies relevant, irrelevant and sometimes neutral impacts.
2021-10-01T00:00:00ZEFFECTIVENESS OF THE SANITATION AND HYGIENE POLICY LINKS IN KAKAMEGA COUNTY, KENYA
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EFFECTIVENESS OF THE SANITATION AND HYGIENE POLICY LINKS IN KAKAMEGA COUNTY, KENYA
MWENJE WEFWILA, Rabecca,
Sanitation is one of the major issues confronting humanity today. Many households within the developing world are exceptionally a long way from accomplishing adequate degrees of sanitation and hygiene notwithstanding the policies put in place. The majority of the sanitation facilities in the developing nations are inadequate and unimproved. The broad objective of the study was to assess the effectiveness of sanitation and hygiene policies through the provision of essential and fundamental services like sanitation and hygiene in Kakamega County. This study was done in an informal and rural setting of Lurambi Sub-County, Kakamega County. The study adopted a descriptive cross-sectional study design whereby 156 households were selected by simple random sampling in Lurambi Sub County. Six officers in the WASH sector were purposively sampled for the interviews. Study tools that were used included structured questionnaires, Key Informant Interview schedules and observation checklist. Management of the collected data was done using the IBM Statistical Packages for Social Sciences (version 25).Data analysis was done using descriptive statistics including the cross tabulation and frequencies were used. The study results demonstrated that the level of knowledge and awareness among the community members on the sanitation and hygiene policies was poor; the sanitation and hygiene facilities were unkempt, unmaintained and inadequate in more than 70% of the households. This demonstrated that little investment had been made in proper sanitation and hygiene facilities. The predominance of WASH related-diseases like diarrhea among the community members was attributed to the inaccessibility to safe water for drinking, and poor sanitary and hygiene conditions. I concluded that the sanitation and hygiene policy links in Kakamega are least known by both the residents of the study area and the actors which has contributed to poor sanitation and hygiene behaviors that has contributed to the high prevalence of the water-related diseases in the region. The study revealed that everyone has a role to play in ensuring proper implementation of sanitation and hygiene policies and also holds the government responsible to the people because it is for the people. There is need for cooperation amongst all stakeholders including national and county governments as well as development partners in order to achieve the objectives of efficient and effective service delivery and good governance in the Sanitation and hygiene sector. All actors should play their role to increase the level of compliance to the set policy and reduce the risks associated with poor sanitation and hygiene.
2021-11-20T00:00:00ZThe Socioeconomic Impact on the Water Management in Algeria: Tlemcen as a Case of Study
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The Socioeconomic Impact on the Water Management in Algeria: Tlemcen as a Case of Study
Bouchenak Khelladi, Racha Medjda
Water shortages experienced by the locality of Boujlida-Tlemcen are not only a consequence of the drought which has occurred in the city over the last decade, but also a delicate and difficult management issue due to the use of archaic investigative tools.
The main idea of the study is the analysis of data provided by l’Algérienne Des Eaux (ADE) about water production, distribution and consumption, in order to evaluate the efficiency of the water supply network, and on interviews to assess the role of water in the organization of the relationship between habitat and users.
The data analysis has shown that the water supply network of Boujlida is efficient at 55% meaning that about half of the volume introduced into the network is lost and that the water bill covers 92% of the total cost of water.
The survey highlighted the irregularity of water supply in the 160 households surveyed where the majority receives water 3 to 5 times a week, and use water only for cooking and not for drinking. The majority buys bottled water and/or fills water from fountains, and 55% had a water tank at home to satisfy their water needs during water shortages. Only 42% of the housings are connected to the sewage network.
Those results confirms that the water and sanitation management need a serious taking charge by decision-makers to improve its efficiency, where the water demand as much as on supply is of critical importance in a country with limited fresh water resources. Reducing water demand must be a major long-term challenge for the management of water resources that integrates sustainability issues in terms of environmental and economic dimensions. The ultimate aim is to consume less by consuming better.
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