Journal article
Drinking water for the third world - Problems and prospects in a medium-sized city
Journal of the American Planning Association, Vol.73(2), pp.223-237
03/01/2007
DOI: 10.1080/01944360708976155
Abstract
The proportion of Third World urban residents with access to safe drinking water has not increased appreciably in the past three decades. This article describes findings from a door-to-door survey of Imphal in northeast India, identifying problems that are widespread in the developing world:. Imphal's piped water supply system is deficient; a majority of residents procure drinking water from a variety of sources; and more than half the residents spend over a fifth of their incomes for water. While expanding the centralized piped water network would be consistent with the existing paradigm, the Imphal case highlights the potential of culturally accepted, community-based, water supply alternatives. I argue that planners and policymakers in the Third World should seriously consider such alternatives, which could provide feasible, sustainable means of addressing the global drinking water shortage at least in the near term, with currently available resources.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Drinking water for the third world - Problems and prospects in a medium-sized city
- Creators
- Jerry Anthony
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Journal of the American Planning Association, Vol.73(2), pp.223-237
- DOI
- 10.1080/01944360708976155
- ISSN
- 0194-4363
- eISSN
- 1939-0130
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis
- Number of pages
- 15
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 03/01/2007
- Academic Unit
- Center for Social Science Innovation; Public Policy Center (Archive); School of Planning and Public Affairs
- Record Identifier
- 9984271558902771
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