Waiting at the tap

Changes in urban water use in East Africa over three decades

Datos Bibliográficos

ID12242583
AutoresJohn Thompson (0000-0002-3102-4035, International Institute for Environment and Development, 3 Endsleigh Street, London, WC1H ODD, UK, autor de correspondencia), John H Thompson (0009-0009-9174-4817, autor de correspondencia), I Porras (International Institute for Environment and Development), Ina T Porras (Environmental Economics Programme, International Institute for Environment and Development, 3 Endsleigh Street, London, WC1H ODD, UK), Elisabeth Jean Wood (0000-0001-7504-8699), E F Wood (0000-0001-7037-9675, International Institute for Environment and Development), Elisabeth Wood (Environmental Economics Programme, International Institute for Environment and Development, 3 Endsleigh Street, London, WC1H ODD, UK), James K Tumwine (Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, Makerere Medical School, PO Box 7072, Kampala, Uganda), James Tumwine (0000-0002-3422-7460, Makerere University), Mark R Mujwahuzi (University of Dar es Salaam), Munguti Katui-Katua (Community Management and Training Services (East Africa), Park Place, Magadi Road, Langata, PO Box 292 Kiserian, Nairobi, Kenya), Nick Johnstone (0000-0002-8083-2290, Pollution Prevention and Control Division, Environment Directorate, Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, 2 rue Andre Pascal, Paris 75016, France)
Año2000
Volumen12
Número2
Páginas37-52
Fecha de publicación2000-10-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaEnvironment and Urbanization (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0956-2478 • E-ISSN: 1746-0301
EditorialSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/095624780001200204
OpenAlexW2036806094
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas24

This paper reports on changes in water supplies in 16 sites in nine East African urban centres (including Nairobi and Dar es Salaam) between 1967 and 1997. The sites included both low-income and affluent neighbourhoods. In most sites, water supplies had deteriorated. For sites that already had piped water in 1967, most received less water per day in 1997 and had more unreliable supplies. For households without piped supplies, the average time spent collecting water in 1997 was more than three times that in 1967. One of the most notable changes when comparing 1997 to 1967 was the much greater importance of private water vending through kiosks or vendors; these had become a booming business in many of the low- and middle-income sites. But on average, those using kiosks were spending almost 2 hours a day collecting water and the water from kiosks was nearly twice the price of piped supplies

Agricultural economics · Business · Economics · Geography · Interactive kiosk · Socioeconomics · Tap water · Water supply · Child Nutrition and Water Access · Environmental Science · Urban and Rural Development Challenges · Water Governance and Infrastructure · Environmental Engineering