Governance in Water Sector : Comparing development in Kenya, Nepal, South Africa and Finland
Juuti, Petri; Katko, Tapio; Mäki, Harri; Nyanchaga, Ezekiel Nyangeri; Rautanen, Sanna-Leena; Vuorinen, Heikki (2007)
Juuti, Petri
Katko, Tapio
Mäki, Harri
Nyanchaga, Ezekiel Nyangeri
Rautanen, Sanna-Leena
Vuorinen, Heikki
2007
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Water really does matter: presently some 1.2 billion people do not have access to clean water and more than 2.6 billion lack access to proper sanitation. Water-borne diseases cause the death of five to six million people in developing countries each year some fifteen thousand a day! Enormous efforts will be needed to meet the set goal of wider access to water and sanitation. In the last 10 years more children have died from diarrhoea than all the people lost in armed conflicts since WWII.
Improved water and sanitation services have many positive direct and indirect effects on public health and the national economy. Healthier people living to adulthood increase human resources and ultimately the productivity and well-being of nations. Besides, as regards the various water use purposes, a recent study showed that community water supply should be the first priority in all societies.
The United Nations General Assembly declared the period of 2005-2015 as the International Water Decade to raise awareness and to galvanise people into action for better management and protection of our most crucial resource.
“Water matters” is what the UN said in 2002. Through the Johannesburg Plan of Implementation, countries have committed themselves to the millennium target to halve the proportion of people lacking access to clean water and proper sanitation by 2015. Enormous efforts will be needed to meet the goal. How can it be achieved? Lessons learned from earlier industrialised and urbanised societies might help us understand the present crisis.
This book is based on the multidisciplinary research project “Governance of water and environmental services in long-term perspectives (GOWLOP) A Comparative Study” funded by the Academy of Finland (project number 210816). The study explores the long-term development of the relationships between water supply and sanitation, environmental health, and social change in a global context with a special focus on Kenya, Nepal, South Africa and Finland.
The general objective of the project was to enhance our knowledge and understanding of the development of water use, water supply, water pollution control and sanitation services, and their overall long-term political, economic, social, cultural, technological, environmental and health impacts. The study aimed to explain the strategic decisions made over the years and to identify the key drivers - strategies, principles and practices which have resulted in historically significant changes in public health and overall development of community water supply and sanitation services, their governance, social importance and impacts during two urbanisation periods in Africa (Kenya, South Africa), Asia (Nepal) and Europe (Finland).
Some key findings of the GOWLOP project are presented in this book.
Improved water and sanitation services have many positive direct and indirect effects on public health and the national economy. Healthier people living to adulthood increase human resources and ultimately the productivity and well-being of nations. Besides, as regards the various water use purposes, a recent study showed that community water supply should be the first priority in all societies.
The United Nations General Assembly declared the period of 2005-2015 as the International Water Decade to raise awareness and to galvanise people into action for better management and protection of our most crucial resource.
“Water matters” is what the UN said in 2002. Through the Johannesburg Plan of Implementation, countries have committed themselves to the millennium target to halve the proportion of people lacking access to clean water and proper sanitation by 2015. Enormous efforts will be needed to meet the goal. How can it be achieved? Lessons learned from earlier industrialised and urbanised societies might help us understand the present crisis.
This book is based on the multidisciplinary research project “Governance of water and environmental services in long-term perspectives (GOWLOP) A Comparative Study” funded by the Academy of Finland (project number 210816). The study explores the long-term development of the relationships between water supply and sanitation, environmental health, and social change in a global context with a special focus on Kenya, Nepal, South Africa and Finland.
The general objective of the project was to enhance our knowledge and understanding of the development of water use, water supply, water pollution control and sanitation services, and their overall long-term political, economic, social, cultural, technological, environmental and health impacts. The study aimed to explain the strategic decisions made over the years and to identify the key drivers - strategies, principles and practices which have resulted in historically significant changes in public health and overall development of community water supply and sanitation services, their governance, social importance and impacts during two urbanisation periods in Africa (Kenya, South Africa), Asia (Nepal) and Europe (Finland).
Some key findings of the GOWLOP project are presented in this book.