Mara, D.D. and Alabaster, G.P. (2008) A new paradigm for low-cost urban water supplies and sanitation in developing countries. Water Policy, 10 (2). pp. 119-129. ISSN 1366-7017
Abstract
To achieve the Millennium Development Goals for urban water supply and sanitation ,300,000 and ,400,000 people will have to be provided with an adequate water supply and adequate sanitation, respectively, every day during 2001–2015. The provision of urban water supply and sanitation services for these numbers of people necessitates action not only on an unprecedented scale, but also in a radically new way as “more of the same” is unlikely to achieve these goals. A “new paradigm” is proposed for low-cost urban water supply and sanitation, as follows: water supply and sanitation provision in urban areas and large villages should be to groups of households, not to individual households. Groups of households would form (even be required to form, or pay more if they do not) water and sanitation cooperatives. There would be standpipe and yard-tap cooperatives served by communitymanaged sanitation blocks, on-site sanitation systems or condominial sewerage, depending on space availability and costs and, for non-poor households, in-house multiple-tap cooperatives served by condominial sewerage or, in low-density areas, by septic tanks with on-site effluent disposal. Very poor households (those unable to afford to form standpipe cooperatives) would be served by community-managed standpipes and sanitation blocks.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Authors/Creators: |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2008 IWA Publishing |
Keywords: | Developing countries, sanitation, urban, water |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Engineering & Physical Sciences (Leeds) > School of Civil Engineering (Leeds) The University of Leeds > Faculty of Engineering & Physical Sciences (Leeds) > School of Civil Engineering (Leeds) > Inst for Pathogen Control Engineering (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Miss Elizabeth Winning |
Date Deposited: | 30 Apr 2009 14:03 |
Last Modified: | 15 Sep 2014 01:37 |
Published Version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.2166/wp.2008.034 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | IWA Publishing |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.2166/wp.2008.034 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:8559 |