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Empty Buckets and Overflowing Pits - Urban Water and Sanitation Reforms in Sub-Saharan Africa - Acknowledging Decline, Preparing for the Unprecedented Wave of Demand (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020)
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Empty Buckets and Overflowing Pits - Urban Water and Sanitation Reforms in Sub-Saharan Africa - Acknowledging Decline, Preparing for the Unprecedented Wave of Demand (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020)
Series: Springer Water
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This book provides a multi-level and multi-dimensional insight into
urban water and sanitation development by analyzing sector reforms
in Africa. With the recent events in mind - water shortages in Cape
Town, widespread cholera in Haiti, mass-migration from low-income
countries, etc. - it elaborates a pressing topic which is directly
linked to the precarious living conditions of the urban poor in the
developing countries. It is urgent to acknowledge the proposed
findings and recommendations of the book which will help to improve
the situation of potential refugees in their home countries with a
realistic vision for the development of the most basic of all life
supporting services. So many efforts to reverse the negative trend
in water and sanitation development have failed or targets have
been repeatedly missed by far without notable consequences for
decision makers on different levels and institutions. It has
unnecessarily consumed many young lives, contributed to keep
billions in poverty until today and fostered discrimination of
women. The knowledge gap and the confusion in the sector lined out
in the book becomes evident when a national leader in a low-income
country declares a state of emergency in urban water and sanitation
while at the same time global monitoring publishes an access figure
for urban water of over 90% for the same country. It is time to
change this with an effective sector development concept for our
partner countries and a more realistic discourse on global level.
The book argues for a sweeping rethinking and combines extended
local knowledge, lessons learned from history in advanced countries
and thorough research on reforms in Francophone and Anglophone
developing countries. This was possible because the writer was
working in Sub-Saharan partner countries for almost 30 years as an
integrated long term advisor in different sector institutions
(ministry, regulator, financing basket and different sizes of
utilities) and had the opportunity to cooperate closely with the
main development partners. The reader has the opportunity to obtain
a comprehensive understanding of how the sector works and sector
institutions in low-income countries function and can discover the
reasons behind success and failures of reforms. The book also
covers issues which have a significant influence on urban water and
sanitation development but are hardly the subject of discussions.
It helps to make the shortcomings of the water and sanitation
discourse more apparent and assist institutions to move beyond
their present perceptions and agendas. All of this makes the book
different from other literature about urban water and sanitation in
the developing world.
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