Africas Water And Sanitation Infrastructure

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Publisher : World Bank Publications
ISBN 13 : 0821386182
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Africa's Water and Sanitation Infrastructure written by and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2011-01-01 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Africa's Water and Sanitation InfrastructureùAccess, Affordability, and Alternatives integrates a wealth of primary and secondary information to present a quantitative snapshot of the state of the WSS sectors in Africa. It explains the sectoral institutional structures and utility performance and articulates the volume and quality of financing available over time. The authors also evaluate the challenges to the WSS sectors and explore the factors that govern the expansion of coverage over time. Finally, the authors estimate spending needs for WSS, arriving at a funding gap for meeting the MDGs. The proposed directions for the future draw on lessons learned from best practices and present the menu of choices available to African countries, bearing in mind that the challenges differ to a significant extent among countries and solutions must be tailored to national or regional conditions. --Book Jacket.

Author : Marco Schouten
Publisher : AFRICAN SUN MeDIA
ISBN 13 : 192010996X
Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Innovative Practices in the African Water Supply and Sanitation Sector written by Marco Schouten and published by AFRICAN SUN MeDIA. This book was released on 2009-10-01 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ?Innovative practices in the African Water Supply and Sanitation Sector is a must read for practitioners who are interested getting started on the path towards more sustainable water management. It is a rich collection of practical African case studies covering innovative ways to approach such diverse topics as financing, capacity building, community ownership and management through to water loss reduction and health risk prioritisation provide a variety of entry points for governments and NGOs to take action.? ? Carol Howe SWITCH Project Director

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs. Subcommittee on Africa and Global Health
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 56 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Africa's Water Crisis and the U.S. Response written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs. Subcommittee on Africa and Global Health and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Ambe J. Njoh
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317003632
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Urban Planning and Public Health in Africa written by Ambe J. Njoh and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-02-11 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Established indicators of development suggest that, as a group, African countries lag behind their counterparts in other regions with respect to public health. Particularly noteworthy is the fact that the public health problems of these countries are rooted in preventable causes associated with hygiene and sanitation. It is customary to attribute the problems that ail Africa to the lack of financial resources. This book deviates from convention by suggesting non-financial factors as the source of sanitation problems on the continent, and argues the need to re-connect urban planning to public health. These two professions are consanguine relatives and emerged to combat the negative externalities of the industrial revolution and concomitant urbanization. However, with the passage of time, the professions drifted apart. Today, more than ever, there is a need for the two to be re-connected. This need is rooted in the increasing complexity of urban problems whose resolution requires interdisciplinary initiatives. To this end, there is hardly any question that urban public health initiatives are unlikely to succeed without the collaboration of both public health and urban planning experts. The book recognizes this truism, and stands as the first major academic work to demonstrate the inextricably intertwined nature of urban planning and urban public health in Africa.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs. Subcommittee on Africa, Global Health, Global Human Rights, and International Organizations
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Impact of U.S. Water Programs on Global Health written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs. Subcommittee on Africa, Global Health, Global Human Rights, and International Organizations and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Joan Nyika
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031262719
Total Pages : 117 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Water Challenges in Rural and Urban Sub-Saharan Africa and their Management written by Joan Nyika and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-04-20 with total page 117 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sub-Saharan Africa grapples with many public health issues such as food insecurity, increased prevalence of infectious diseases, limited access to clean water supply, poor nutrition and lack of improved health services for its populace (IMF, 2021). Of all these challenges, the inaccessibility of clean water supply for both the rural and urban populace is the most pressing challenge, which has been exacerbated by extensive pollution and climate change crises. The issue of water access and supply affects both rural and urban populations. At rural areas water is accessed in yard taps and in arid regions through water kiosks managed by private owners. Among the urban poor, water access is compromised by poor supply infrastructure especially among informal settlers and risks such as contamination during the supply chain are imminent This book therefore seeks to close this knowledge gap by 1) generating a water resources inventory for Sub-Saharan Africa region, 2) exploring the water crises in both its urban and rural settings, 3) understanding the causatives of the crises and 4) suggesting viable solutions to manage the water challenges using named case studies. The aim is to improve understanding on the region’s water problems and advise scholars and policymakers on priority research areas and action plans to better water management for sustainable development.

Author : Yongxin Xu
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sustainable Groundwater Resources in Africa written by Yongxin Xu and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Disseminating investigations and providing pointers towards achieving sustainable groundwater supplies in community environments across the African continent, this book provides coverage of search integrated water, sanitation, hygiene delivery, and implementation best practices. The second part, through a variety of case studies, illustrates the current status and pitfalls that hydrogeologists experience--highlighting the relevant challenges that Sub-Saharan Africa still faces in this battle. The chapters assess the current situation, best practices, and contemporary challenges.

Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9264715436
Total Pages : 113 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book OECD Studies on Water Water Governance in African Cities written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2021-03-24 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The COVID-19 pandemic has acted as a magnifying glass on pressing water and sanitation challenges in African cities, stressing and widening inequalities, especially for the 56% of the urban population living in informal settlements, lacking basic handwashing facilities, and relying on public water points and shared toilets.

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Publisher : IIED
ISBN 13 : 1843694948
Total Pages : 55 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Privatization and the Provision of Urban Water and Sanitation in Africa, Asia and Latin America written by and published by IIED. This book was released on 2003 with total page 55 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : United States United States Agency for International Development
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781535306164
Total Pages : 26 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Water for Africa Through Leadership and Institutional Support (Walis) written by United States United States Agency for International Development and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-07-16 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite significant progress made through donor and NGO investments over the past thirty years, a large percentage of Africans still lack access to clean water and proper sanitation. The data that African countries report to the Joint Monitoring Programme (JMP) often masks significant disparities between rural/urban populations and between rich and poor. These statistics also fail to capture the impact of poor water and sanitation access on women and girls who bear the primary responsibility for collecting and managing household water supplies and hygiene. They also face greater health and safety issues when confronted with limited access to sanitation facilities. Many African countries are testing and applying different approaches to improve access to clean, safe water and improved sanitation. These offer good examples of market-oriented and public-private partnership approaches that can help countries address specific water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) challenges. Unfortunately, too often these examples and the lessons they generate get little notice or dissemination outside the country or city where they take place. Based on our experience, replicating successful WASH models requires two key ingredients: (1) wide availability of information about the approach and how it was developed (i.e. not just a simple success story); and (2) the local capacity to understand and adapt the approach to the different political, social, economic and environmental conditions reflected in the targeted country or region.