Eine Plattform für die Wissenschaft: Bauingenieurwesen, Architektur und Urbanistik
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The Perception of Water Quality Among Rural Communities in South-Western Nigeria: Lesson for Planners
“Clean water for all” is one of the goals of the UN International Drinking Supply and Sanitation Decade 1981–90. This goal to be accomplished, requires a level of governmental investment which is difficult to reach in many developing countries. This is particularly so of Nigeria where a vast majority of rural people is yet to benefit from improved water supply and where the level of priority accorded domestic water supply is dismally low, with some states devoting just about 1% of their total capital expenditure to water supply provision.
At the same time, there is evidence that the rural people in many places, aware of the advantages of good water sources and the disadvantages of bad ones, show preferences for and undertake development programmes connected with good quality water supply: this is here exemplified by three rural communities in southwestern Nigeria. Not only are these people knowledgeable about water quality and its relationship with health, they are also eager to seize any feasible opportunities to improve their water supply situation.
It is argued that rather than rely on gigantic time-consuming, capital intensive and difficult to maintain schemes, as we have presently with government projects, more modest ones within the competence of the rural communities should be encouraged.
The Perception of Water Quality Among Rural Communities in South-Western Nigeria: Lesson for Planners
“Clean water for all” is one of the goals of the UN International Drinking Supply and Sanitation Decade 1981–90. This goal to be accomplished, requires a level of governmental investment which is difficult to reach in many developing countries. This is particularly so of Nigeria where a vast majority of rural people is yet to benefit from improved water supply and where the level of priority accorded domestic water supply is dismally low, with some states devoting just about 1% of their total capital expenditure to water supply provision.
At the same time, there is evidence that the rural people in many places, aware of the advantages of good water sources and the disadvantages of bad ones, show preferences for and undertake development programmes connected with good quality water supply: this is here exemplified by three rural communities in southwestern Nigeria. Not only are these people knowledgeable about water quality and its relationship with health, they are also eager to seize any feasible opportunities to improve their water supply situation.
It is argued that rather than rely on gigantic time-consuming, capital intensive and difficult to maintain schemes, as we have presently with government projects, more modest ones within the competence of the rural communities should be encouraged.
The Perception of Water Quality Among Rural Communities in South-Western Nigeria: Lesson for Planners
Faniran, Adetoye (Autor:in)
Water International ; 11 ; 169-174
01.01.1986
6 pages
Aufsatz (Zeitschrift)
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