(In)formality: the meshwork of water service provisioning
(In)formality: the meshwork of water service provisioning
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（内）形式：供水服务供应的网络
DOI：
10.1002/wat2.1056
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发表时间：
2015
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R. Ahlers
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作者：
K. Schwartz;Mireia Tutusaus Luque;Maria Rusca;R. Ahlers
几十年来，发展中国家的城市一直以不同的服务提供模式并存为特征。这些模式通常包括正式的供水公司和一系列小规模的私营或社区服务提供商。近年来，供水非正式性的话题引起了政策制定者和学者的兴趣。通常，关于这一主题的文献区分了非正式提供者和正式提供者，表明提供者属于正式或非正式领域。通过强调莫桑比克大马普托地区小规模供水服务的基础设施、融资和监管机构，本文说明了非正式性和正式性是如何相互依存的，并渗透到整个供水过程中，形成了一个供水服务网络。参与服务提供的行为者体现了多重身份，并在各种治理场所使用这些身份，以发展其水业务。对非正规性采取这种做法，就不可能令人信服地区分正规和非正规提供者。相反，它导致了对供水的关注，而不是供应商，其中非正规性和正规性贯穿于服务提供过程。WIREs Water 2015，2：31-36。doi：10.1002/wat2.1056
Cities in developing countries have for many decades been characterized by the co‐existence of different service provision modalities. These modalities usually include a formal water utility and an array of small‐scale private or community‐based service providers. In recent years, the topic of informality in water provisioning has been subject to an upsurge in interest of both policy makers and academics. Frequently, literature on the topic distinguishes between informal providers and formal providers suggesting that a provider belongs to either a formal or informal domain. By highlighting the infrastructure, financing, and regulatory institutions of small‐scale service provisioning in Greater Maputo, Mozambique, this article illustrates how informality and formality are interdependent and permeate throughout the water provisioning process creating a meshwork of service provisioning. Actors involved in service provisioning embody multiple identities and use these identities in various sites of governance in order to develop their water business. By adopting this approach to informality, it becomes impossible to distinguish convincingly between formal and informal providers. Instead, it leads to a focus on water provisioning rather than providers, in which informality and formality traverse through the service provision process. WIREs Water 2015, 2:31–36. doi: 10.1002/wat2.1056