When informal water providers get formal: who pays?
In low income areas in African cities, where the poor cannot afford to pay the bill, water is often supplied by informal providers. Focusing on a study case in Kenya, a new article by...
In low income areas in African cities, where the poor cannot afford to pay the bill, water is often supplied by informal providers. Focusing on a study case in Kenya, a new article by...
As the Sustainable Development Goals call for universal access to drinking water, Akosua Boakye points at how water utilities in the cities of the Global South are caught in between the neo-liberal principles of...
This blog is based on the publication by Maria Rusca, Akosua Sarpong Boakye-Ansah, Alex Loftus, Giuliana Ferrero, Pieter van der Zaag, “An interdisciplinary political ecology of drinking water quality. Exploring socio-ecological inequalities in Lilongwe’s...
“Pro-poor is a bottom up approach which ensures participation by low-income consumers in water provisioning issues……. It promotes a sense of ownership among such consumers leading to the reduction of vandalism of infrastructure and...