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Showing 1 to 20 of 68 for “"Water services"”.
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Perceptions of water services and innovations to improve water services in Tanzania
Lack of access to safe drinking water is a crisis of great proportion. An estimated 1.8 billion people rely on unsafe drinking water. This study focuses on the case of Tanzania, in which an estimated 29 million people, or 44% of the population, lack access to safe drinking water. Furthermore, the …
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Commercialising Zambia's urban water services : a critical analysis.
… analyses reforms undertaken in Zambia's water sector. Its main focus however, is on the corporatisation of Zambia's urban water services. The objective is to apply some selected indicators of water services improvement to establish whether the commercialisation of urban water services has …
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Responding to climate change to sustain community-managed water services in Vanuatu
… guidance on the ways in which community-managed water services are affected by and sustained against climate change disturbances. Climate change poses one of the most significant challenges to the world with potential for far-reaching, detrimental impacts on water access in rural areas of …
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Voluntary job mobility within the Water Services Corporation : analysing motivating factors across employee groups
… influence voluntary job mobility within the Water Services Corporation (WSC). The list of variables includes situations and conditions at work, wage, training opportunities and career development, and family situations. The study also aims to determine any significant statistical differences …
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Development of a Performance Assessment System to Improve Water Services Sector in Iraqi Kurdistan
In many parts of the world, the key issue for water stakeholders is the lack of reliable information about the quality of the water services sector and the performance efficiencies of the water utilities’ functional components. Without effective performance assessment over time for the water …
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The effectiveness of Vhembe District Municipality in the provision of potable water services at Thohoyandou
… Municipality in the provision of potable water services at Thohoyandou. Access to potable water is a fundamental human right and an essential public service, central to health and socio-economic development, as highlighted in recent studies on water justice and governance in developing …
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Sustainability of Rural Water Services in Low-Income Countries: Case studies in sub-Saharan Africa
Access to adequate water and sanitation is fundamental to enhancing the quality of life for rural populations. Over the past few decades substantial amounts of money have been spent and efforts made to provide rural water supply services in various developing countries. However, the provision of …
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Non-revenue water : most suitable business model for water services authorities in South Africa : Ugu District Municipality
Submitted in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Engineering in Civil Engineering and Surveying, Durban University of Technology, Durban, South Africa, 2016.
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Exploring the Potential of Multiple Use Water Services for Smallholder Farmers in the Western Middle Hills of Nepal
Rural water systems (RWS) are commonly used to provide water to households for domestic uses (drinking, cleaning, washing, and sanitation) in developing countries. Water supply practitioners often classify these systems as single-use water systems (SUS) or multiple-use water systems (MUS). …
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The Municipal Bond Market and Water Utilities: The Impact of Capital Markets on Local Communities and their Water Services
… majority of medium- to large-sized municipal water utilities in the United States rely on the 4 trillion USD municipal bond market to finance all or a portion of their operations, maintenance, and capital improvements. Despite the scale and power of the bond market in setting the guardrails …
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The development of a strategic framework for local government transformation with specific reference to water services in the Cape metropolitan area
… transformation which will ensure sustainable water services within a sustainable city model, and with particular reference to the provision of water services to the metropolitan area of Cape Town. The strategic framework provides a) a means of analysis of existing organizations and their …
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Energy Sensitive Urban Water Planning in Developing Countries: Unlocking the Potential of Distributed Recycled Water Systems to Reduce the Overall Energy Intensity for Urban Water Services
… is a significant operational expense for most water utilities, particularly in developing countries. The current linear approach to water management will further increase the overall energy intensity (kWh/kL) for water services as rapidly growing cities move towards remote sources of water, …
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Towards improved partnerships in the water sector in the Middle East : A case study of Jordan
… use of public-private partnerships (PPPs) in the water sector in Jordan, a Middle East pioneer with respect to experimenting with different approaches to delivering water services in both cities and rural areas. Jordan's efforts to decentralize water services began in the late 1990s at the …
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The perceptions of municipal water service officials on the Blue Drop programme : the case of Nkangala District Municipality
… was introduced in 2008 by the Department of Water Affairs (DWA) with the aim of maintaining and improving drinking water quality in South Africa. The programme is being implemented in order to protect consumers from water services providers who might not act in the interest of the public. For …
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Su ve yaşam: Suyun toplumsal önemi
As water, a main element of life, is the most basic human need, differently from othernatural resouces. It is currently considered, out of its own use value, as a commoditythat is susceptible to usage in accordance with social, economic and political benefits.Currently, water that is considered as …
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Spatial planning strategies for sustainable municipal household water service provision: a case study of Thohoyandou Town in Vhembe District Municipality of Limpopo, South Africa
… challenges when it comes to reliable municipal water supply. The root causes often lie in aging or inadequate infrastructure, the pressures of rapid town expansion, and ongoing governance issues that hinder effective service delivery. This study focuses on how spatial planning can play a key …
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Beyond the public-private binary: cooperatives as alternative water governance models
This thesis examines the concept of water cooperatives as an alternative model to create access, supply and manage water services in poor urban and peri urban areas. Two case studies from the Municipality of Moreno, Buenos Aires are presented in this thesis in order to account for the feasibility …
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Rainwater Harvesting and Community Water Security in south-west Uganda
… Uganda’s population has access to safe drinking water. Municipal water systems rarely reach the poorest, most remote communities, and where they do reach populations, quality and quantity are often inadequate due to poor system operation and maintenance. Decentralised water services, such as RWH …
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Assessment of local water distribution infrastructure management and maintenance challenges
… South African government’s vision of providing services to all is on-going maintenance of public infrastructure. Since 1994 the government focused on addressing backlogs in the provision of water services through new infrastructure investment; however it failed to make sufficient investment in …
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Public trusteeship and water management: developing the South African concept of public trusteeship to improve management of water resources in the context of South African water law
… challenges when it comes to managing its water resources. To redress the results of discrimination caused by Apartheid and its political antecedents, the modern constitutional state sought to address the issues of access to water resources and sanitation services by introducing section 24 …
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