Substitution of piped water and self-supplied groundwater: The case of residential water in South Africa

Aina, Ifedotun Victor; Thiam, Djiby Racine; Dinar, Ariel

doi:10.1016/j.jup.2022.101480

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“…The conceptualisation of self-supply as a promising and sustainable approach to service expansion was introduced in South Africa by an NGO in 2010 [89]. While the rise of the new concept led to an international frenzy of reports and scientific publications, this concept was only recently taken up in the national scientific discourse [75,[90][91][92][93]. Contesting this conventional and expert driven interpretation of self-supply, local activists and academics made use of the concept of self-supply to describe one of their strategies to claim the right to water access (in addition to litigation, engagement with the government, media advocacy and protest) [94][95][96].…”

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Rooted Water Collectives in a Modernist and Neoliberal Imaginary: Threats and Perspectives for Rural Water Commons

Hofstetter,

Bolding,

Boelens

2023

Water

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Water schemes that rely on user (co-) ownership and collective action have been described in the irrigation sector for a long time. Still, interest in such forms of (co-) investment in the domestic/multiple use sector is more recent. To address the persisting issue of rural water service, (what has been coined) self-supply is proclaimed to be a (supposedly) low-cost, sustainable manner to attain the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). User (co-) investments are to be promoted and realized through the creation of an enabling policy environment and development of, and training on, low-cost technologies through government and NGO support and private sector-steered access to such technologies. In this article, we apply the Rooted Water Collectives (RWC) framework to describe two such schemes, one in South Africa and one in Switzerland. The data collection followed an action research methodology, with the main author being involved in interventions in all three schemes. We show here that these collectives create positions of purpose within societies and that what motivates people is to help themselves and contribute to the greater good of the community. This article shows that interventions to foster and sustain such collective actions that follow a neoliberal/modernist imaginary negatively affect their viability since these collectives, through their other-than-capitalist interactions, form part of and depend on an alternative imaginary. We conclude that interventions aiming to strengthen forms of collective action can only succeed if they recognize contextuality, unequal power relationships, and grass-rooted forms of interdependence and collaboration, and actively build on and work toward such alternative, more convivial imaginaries.

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Rooted Water Collectives in a Modernist and Neoliberal Imaginary: Threats and Perspectives for Rural Water Commons

Hofstetter,

Bolding,

Boelens

2023

Water

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“…Some of the reasons include those beyond the reach of utilities [ 14 , 15 ], those served by municipal water systems, and those with insufficient water supplies [ 14 ]. Other reasons include rising population growth due to user demand and industrialization [ 15 ], increased awareness and low-cost technology, and a desire to source water locally [ 7 ], and as a long-term cost-cutting strategy [ 9 , 16 ].…”

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Self-supply groundwater in five communities: Moshie Zongo, Aboabo, Kotei, Ayeduase and Apemso in Kumasi Metropolis, Ghana

Bakobie,

Essandoh,

Oduro-Kwarteng

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Heliyon

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“…The conceptualisation of self-supply as a promising and sustainable approach to service expansion has been introduced in South Africa by an NGO in 2010 (Rosenfeld, 2010). While the rise of the new concept led to an international frenzy of reports and scientific publications, this concept was only recently taken up in the national scientific discourse (van Koppen et al, 2020;Matlakala et al, 2023;Aina et al, 2023;; see also Chapter 2). Contesting this conventional and expert driven interpretation of self-supply, local activists and academics made use of the concept of self-supply to describe one of their strategies to claim the right to water access (in addition to litigation, engagement with the government, media advocacy and protest) (SERI, 2020;Masiangoako et al, 2022;Scheba, 2022).…”

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Community, markets, and conviviality: a political ecology of rural water supply

Hofstetter

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Chapter 1 Introduction 1.1 "Look at the world through watery eyes" 1.2 Research questions 1.3 Conceptualisation 1.4 Positionality and the tale of my research odyssey 1.5 Research methodology 1.6 The regional context of the case studies 1.7 Scientific output 1.8 Outline of the dissertation Chapter 2 The emergence of collectively owned self-supply water supply systems in rural South Africa -what can we learn from the Tshakhuma case in Limpopo? 2.1 Introduction: South Africa's water services challenge 2.2 Background: The international interest in self-supply 2.3 Self-supply and the role of communities in water service delivery in South Africa 2.4 Conceptual notes 2.5 Methods 2.6 Results 2.7 Discussion and conclusionChapter 3 Addressing failed water infrastructure delivery through increased accountability and end-user agency: the case of the sekhukhune district, South Africa 3.1 Introduction 3.2 Conceptual take on failed service delivery 3.3 Methodology 3.4 Scrutinising four phases of service delivery to identify mechanisms that cause failure 3.5 Transformative servicing -the pilot project in ga-moela 3.6 Discussion: counter-mechanisms increasing accountability and improving service delivery 3.7 Conclusion Chapter 4 Conviviality under pressure of market-modernist expertocracy: the case of water commons in rural Switzerland 4.1 Introduction 4.2 Conviviality and the commons 4.3 The historical development of community owned water schemes 4.4 The four phases of a project establishing water access 4.5 The unification of three schemes 4.6 Conclusion: conviviality and the threats of market-modernist forces Chapter 5 Rooted water collectives in a modernist and neoliberal imaginary: threats and perspectives for rural water commons 5.1 Introduction 5.2 Analytical and conceptual framework 5.3 Methodology 5.4 Context of the three case study areas 5.5 Results: the three rooted water collectives 5.6 Discussion 5.7 Conclusion Chapter 6 Discussion and conclusion 6.1 A critical look at my conceptual journey 6.2 Reflection on rural water supply collectives 6.3 Future research 6.4 Reflection on positionality 6.5 Conclusion Chapter 7 Summary Chapter 8 Acknowledgments Chapter 9 Bibliography Chapter 10 NotesLocal context: Entlebuch the case is situated in a rural municipality located in the mountainous region of Entlebuch, within the Kanton of Luzern. Outside the urbanised zone of the village, there are six independent and user owned water schemes that abstract water from natural springs and deliver it to connected households. While the yield of these springs is not directly subject to temporary changes in weather, many are sensitive to longer dry spells as occurred in 2018 and 2020. The rainfall, despite climate change, is predicted to remain at around 1400mm (Kanton Luzern, 2022), but summer droughts and heavy rainfall events are expected to become more frequent (Regierungsrat des Kantons Luzern, 2021). The high protection status of the remaining natural springs means that collectives aiming to improve their water supply in most cases h...

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Substitution of piped water and self-supplied groundwater: The case of residential water in South Africa

Cited by 7 publications

References 35 publications

Rooted Water Collectives in a Modernist and Neoliberal Imaginary: Threats and Perspectives for Rural Water Commons

Rooted Water Collectives in a Modernist and Neoliberal Imaginary: Threats and Perspectives for Rural Water Commons

Self-supply groundwater in five communities: Moshie Zongo, Aboabo, Kotei, Ayeduase and Apemso in Kumasi Metropolis, Ghana

Community, markets, and conviviality: a political ecology of rural water supply

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