The role of water vendors in water service delivery in developing countries: a case of Dala local government, Kano, Nigeria

Ahmad, Muhammad Tajuri

doi:10.1007/s13201-016-0507-z

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“…al, 2012;Giovannoni & Fabietti, 2013;Kyessi & Ka'Bange, 2014;Brown and Heller, 2017. Environmental & Health management abilities; Though informal water supply market is an old urban development phenomenon and has received abundant of jsd.ccsenet.org scholarly rhetoric (Kjellén & McGranahan, 2006;Wutich et. al., 2016;Ahmad, 2017), the complexities and spatiality surrounding their operations in Sub-Saharan Africa, make research on this phenomenon largely unexhaustive. Historical recounts of the evolution of informal water supply markets are inconsistent.…”

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“…Previous studies on this phenomenon entirely made used of either case study, qualitative or ethnographic research strategy (Kjellén, 2006;Kjellén & McGranahan, 2006;Van Dijk, 2008;Kyessi, 2011;Crow & Odaba, 2014;Ahmad, 2017;Wutich et. al.…”

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“…The recognition of access to water in development agendas demonstrates its universality to the human development agenda (Mehta, 2014). Yet, though the developed world is on a steady progress to achieving the targets of the SDG 6 (UN, 2016), a roadmap to realizing the SDG target standpipes (Crow and Odaba, 2014;Ahmad, 2017;Cain, 2018). The effects are enormous and may manifest in both financial and non-financial cost; including reduction in productivity as active workers leave offices in search of water (Bacho, 2002).…”

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“…al. 2016;Ahmad, 2017) and Small-scale entrepreneurs (Solo, 1999;Mkanga & Materu, 2006;Wutich el. al, 2016).…”

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Water Access Today and Tomorrow: Domestic Water Sustainability under Informal Water Supply Markets in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

Dakyaga¹,

Kyessi²,

Msami³

2018

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The article examined domestic water access sustainability under informally driven water supply market, drawing on suppliers-consumers’ perspectives. Analysis was done on the capacities of the informal water suppliers for sustainable water provision, how the informal water markets operate, and clients’ perspectives of water access today and tomorrow. Four different data set were comparatively analyzed from interviews with the Municipal Water Engineer (MWE), Ward Health Officer (WHO), 3 Mtaa leaders from 3 informal settlements, interviews with 43 informal water sellers from three informal settlements, including a survey of (n = 292) clients in three informal settlements. It was realized that though informal water suppliers are sociocultural capable of providing flexible and gender-sensitive water supply services, households have unsustainable access to improved water due to the financial, hydro-technical, institutional and organizational in capacities of the informal water sellers coupled with the low financial abilities of low-income earning households to continuously purchase water for domestic activities. It was observed that informal settlements’ dwellers are less likely to meet their water supply needs in the near future if their income status together with the financial, hydro-technical, organizational and institutional capacities of the informal water sellers are not improved.

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“…al. 2016;Ahmad, 2017) and Small-scale entrepreneurs (Solo, 1999;Mkanga & Materu, 2006;Wutich el. al, 2016).…”

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Water Access Today and Tomorrow: Domestic Water Sustainability under Informal Water Supply Markets in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

Dakyaga¹,

Kyessi²,

Msami³

2018

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“…This means societies must work on water supply reliability to achieve equity by recognizing vendors formally. This could come in the form of public private partnership so that technical and financial support can be given, thus their activities and charges may be regulated [4].…”

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The Implication of Unreliable Urban Water Supply Service: The Case of Vendor Water Cost in Langata Sub County, Nairobi City, Kenya

Ochungo¹,

Ouma²,

Obiero³

et al. 2019

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Studies on urban water supply service improvements continue to draw interest across the world. The pressure on freshwater resources is increasing in every region in the face of an increasing demand and climate change dynamics. Langata sub County in Nairobi city, Kenya faces drought induced water shortage and households rely on water vending and bottled water purchases to augment the inadequate municipal water supplies. Little to our knowledge has been done to assess the cost implication of such a practice here. So the study used household survey method to collect monthly households' water bills comprising; utility company, water tanker delivery and bottled water purchase from a randomly sampled 382 households spread within the five wards; Karen, South C, Mugumoini, Nairobi West and Nyayo Highrise. The gated communities identified are 57. Simple stochastic analysis of the data was done after data cleaning using MS Excel. It was found that the municipal water serves up to 91.15% of the total average household monthly water demand with a cost share of 27.91%. Water tanker delivery meets 8.61% of the household water demand with a cost share of 50.74%. The bottled water purchases serve 0.24% of a typical household water demand with a total cost share of 21.35%. The water supply deficit which is a mere 8.85% met by tanker deliveries and bottled water purchases has a total average cost share of 72.09%. The computed cost burden is 258%. This means that the households pay more than two and a half times extra above the utility bill per month. The study recommends a new water policy that will incorporate the role of water vendors operated on a cooperative model by the gated communities using standard guidelines. How to cite this paper: Ochungo, E.A., Journal of Water Resource and Protection vulnerability of public water supply systems to impacts of climate variability [26] [27] [28].Accordingly, households nowadays do supplement with vended water transported by one or a number of these methods: head-ported or hand-held water containers [29], walking tractors, bicycles, hand-carts/donkey carts [30] [31], motorbikes and owner-managed water access systems for a home or a community [32]. One other popular coping strategy is buying from neighbors; a practice found in Accra city, Ghana according to [33]. Such daily distressful struggles for water access service makes urban dualism concept real as the beneficiaries are known to be living in urban settings with on-site water utility infrastructure [34] [35]. Further, the selection of a choice of water source with a suitable quality is not easy [36]. Despite the prevailing choice quandary, water vendors serve about 10% -69% of households in developing nations' cities [37]. On the other hand, selling of water to customers is a very important economic activity to the vendors [38]. That is why they always choose to ignore repugnant waterscape labels like 'mafias' as in Bangalore city, India [39].

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Poverty Penalty in Urban Water Market in Ghana

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The role of water vendors in water service delivery in developing countries: a case of Dala local government, Kano, Nigeria

Cited by 26 publications

References 19 publications

Water Access Today and Tomorrow: Domestic Water Sustainability under Informal Water Supply Markets in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

Water Access Today and Tomorrow: Domestic Water Sustainability under Informal Water Supply Markets in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

The Implication of Unreliable Urban Water Supply Service: The Case of Vendor Water Cost in Langata Sub County, Nairobi City, Kenya

Poverty Penalty in Urban Water Market in Ghana

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