Safe drinking water: in Uganda, it's more than a technology

Zimmermann, Karl; Wanyama, Kennedy; Ouma, Henry

doi:10.53014/weof7872

wspg 2023

DOI: 10.53014/weof7872

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Safe drinking water: in Uganda, it's more than a technology

Karl Zimmermann¹,

Kennedy Wanyama²,

Henry Ouma³

Abstract: Uganda has a large rural population with low access to water and sanitation. This article tells success stories of a local organization, Get Water Uganda, working at the household-levels to support sustainable development and improving WASH access.

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End-user participation in drinking water management through Awareness, Education, and Resources: Tools for Water Partnerships

Zimmermann

2024

Water Policy

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The long-term success of safely managed drinking water systems requires participation from many stakeholders, especially the water users, but also community leaders, technical experts, health practitioners, teachers, NGOs, and others. However, people may need to be empowered before they can be confident or able to contribute to meaningful decision making or governance roles in Water Partnerships. Discussions with water leaders from nine organizations on four continents revealed surprisingly a similar three-step approach to empowering end-user participation in water management. The first step is creating the Awareness of local water challenges and their impact on health. The second step is Education about the options for safe water. Together, Awareness + Education lead to people understanding their challenges and being able to devise a locally appropriate solution. The third step is Resources for water action. Through Awareness, Education, and Resources, water stakeholders including households can be empowered to participate in safely managing drinking water solutions.

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End-user participation in drinking water management through Awareness, Education, and Resources: Tools for Water Partnerships

Zimmermann

2024

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Water is the vessel through which we ride the waves of changing climates

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Sancho,

Kumaran

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Acting through water, climate change may affect livelihoods, societal structures, and political conflicts, hindering progress toward poverty reduction. Expanding on themes from the WEST Water Conference, this perspective paper considers how water insecurity from changing climates has unequal impacts within societies, water and gender roles, changing livelihoods, and shifting cultural norms. Opportunities are shared to build resilience into our future water systems. First, technologies are considered for tracking water availability, quality, and usage. Second, collaborating with nature to manage water builds into the idea of blue-green cities. And third, the route to community participation in managing resilient water systems is with an empowered population, made possible through a three-step process of Awareness, Education, and Resources.

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Safe drinking water: in Uganda, it's more than a technology

Abstract: Uganda has a large rural population with low access to water and sanitation. This article tells success stories of a local organization, Get Water Uganda, working at the household-levels to support sustainable development and improving WASH access.

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End-user participation in drinking water management through Awareness, Education, and Resources: Tools for Water Partnerships

End-user participation in drinking water management through Awareness, Education, and Resources: Tools for Water Partnerships

Water is the vessel through which we ride the waves of changing climates

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