Urban Water Politics and Water Security in Disadvantaged Urban Communities in Ghana
Urban Water Politics and Water Security in Disadvantaged Urban Communities in Ghana
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加纳弱势城市社区的城市水政治和水安全
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2009
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Kweku Ainuson
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作者：
Kweku Ainuson
与大多数发展中国家一样，加纳正在努力改善其城市人口获得水和卫生设施的机会。目前，该国许多地区无法从国家电网获得清洁水。在被批准的公用事业公司服务的地区，供水服务大多不稳定，越来越不可靠。现有证据表明，只有59%的城市居民能够获得改善后的饮用水。旨在改善供水的主要政策工具是私营部门对水部门的参与。城市供水不足在处境不利的社区或城市周边社区感受到的不成比例。通常，弱势群体的需求隐藏在较大城市地区的总体统计数据中。这项研究的理论是，由于弱势社区的独特特征--低收入居民、棚户区和糟糕的基础设施建设的高度集中--私营部门的参与对弱势社区的影响往往非常有限。本研究采用多案例研究的方法，分析了城市弱势社区面临的独特的水问题。这项研究的结论是，采用多部门办法，利用所有资源，利用多种供水途径，作为确保弱势社区水安全的最佳办法。
Ghana, like most developing countries, struggles to improve access to water and sanitation to its urban population. Presently, many areas within the country do not have access to clean water from the national grid. And in areas served by the approved utility company, water service is mostly erratic and increasingly unreliable. Available evidence indicates that only 59 percent of urban residents have access to improved drinking water. The main policy tool aimed at improving water supply is private sector participation in the water sector. The inadequacies in urban water supply are felt disproportionally in disadvantaged or peri-urban communities. Often, the needs of the disadvantaged communities are hidden in the aggregate statistics of the larger urban areas. This research theorizes that because of the unique characteristics of the disadvantaged community—a high concentration of low income dwellers, squatter communities, and poor infrastructure developments—private sector participation often has very limited effect on the disadvantaged communities. Using a multiple case study approach, this study analyzes the unique water problems faced by disadvantaged urban communities. The research concludes by espousing a multi-sectoral approach which utilizes all resources and uses multiple avenues for water delivery as the best approach to ensure water security to disadvantaged communities.