Water Scarcity and Urban Africa: An Overview of Urban–Rural Water Linkages

2002 ◽  
Vol 30 (4) ◽  
pp. 621-648 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kate B. Showers
Keyword(s):  
Water Scarcity ◽  
Rural Water ◽  
Urban Africa ◽  
Urban Rural

scholarly journals Analysis of the water meter management of the urban-rural water supply system

2018 ◽  
Vol 44 ◽  
pp. 00051 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joanna Gwozdziej-Mazur ◽  
Kamil Świętochowski
Keyword(s):  
Water Supply ◽  
Water Demand ◽  
Supply System ◽  
Water Supply System ◽  
Water Losses ◽  
Rural Water Supply ◽  
Rural Water ◽  
Urban Rural ◽  
Water Supply Company ◽  
Water Meter

Water losses in the water supply network pose a continuous challenge for water companies. Already during designing new networks, the designer assumes that the amount of water demand must be increased by a certain percentage (usually by 10% of the total average daily water demand for municipal and industrial purposes) due to the possible occurrence of water losses. Water loss is meant the difference between the amount of water injected into the network and the amount of water used and invoiced, i.e. that brings income for the water supply company. Proper water metering management helps to limit water losses. This paper presents analysis of the water meter management of urban-rural water supply system.

scholarly journals Study on the model of domestic sewage resource utilization

2021 ◽  
Vol 252 ◽  
pp. 03044
Author(s):  
Zhuangzhuang Qu ◽  
Yangjing Wang
Keyword(s):  
Resource Utilization ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Suspended Solids ◽  
Anaerobic Fermentation ◽  
Water Environment ◽  
Domestic Sewage ◽  
Sewage Discharge ◽  
Economic Level ◽  
Rural Water ◽  
Urban Rural

In recent years, with the degree of urban-rural integration, the economic level of rural areas and the improvement of residents’ health awareness, the water quality pollution of rural domestic sewage has increased year by year, and the problem of rural sewage discharge has become increasingly prominent. In order to improve the rural water environment and solve the problem of random discharge of sewage, this paper takes the rural domestic sewage as the research object, and takes the natural sedimentation and anaerobic fermentation as the main means to study the on-site resource utilization technology of sewage. It was found that after 3 hours of sewage sedimentation, organic suspended solids settled naturally, resulting in a significant decrease of COD in the upper sewage to 93.29 mg/L. Because of the special bimolecular structure of LAS, the concentration of LAS in surface sewage increased sharply to 7.68mg/L, but it was lower than 10mg/L, which met the irrigation water standard.

scholarly journals Water Scarcity & Health in Urban Africa

Daedalus ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 150 (4) ◽  
pp. 85-102
Author(s):  
Julie Livingston
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Water Scarcity ◽  
Microbial Contamination ◽  
Urban Water ◽  
Rapid Urbanization ◽  
Political Relationships ◽  
Urban Africa ◽  
Significant Public Health ◽  
Water Provision ◽  
The Relationship

Abstract Water is the cornerstone of public health. Yet many people living in Africa's cities face serious challenges obtaining an adequate supply of clean water. This situation, which poses significant public health concerns, promises only to grow in magnitude in the coming years as rapid urbanization and climate change meet head-on to further constrain urban water provision. This essay explores the relationship between water supply and health in urban Africa through the lens of water scarcity and health as political relationships as much as environmental or technical phenomena. By bringing infectious diseases like cholera and chronic ailments like kidney disease into the same frame of analysis, this essay also directs attention beyond the overwhelming public health focus on microbial contamination to emergent forms of water-related illness and injury that proceed unchecked.

Urban–Rural Water Nexus

2018 ◽  
pp. 222-238
Author(s):  
R. Parthasarathy ◽  
Soumini Raja
Keyword(s):  
Rural Water ◽  
Urban Rural

scholarly journals Water Scarcity in Aligambai Village, Alayadivembu Divisional Secretariat, Sri Lanka

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 6-12
Author(s):  
H D R P Jayasinghe ◽  
M Riswan ◽  
P Ishaq
Keyword(s):  
Drinking Water ◽  
Water Supply ◽  
Research Methods ◽  
Water Scarcity ◽  
Cultural Theory ◽  
Water Productivity ◽  
Secondary Data ◽  
Integrated Approach ◽  
Contributing Factors ◽  
Rural Water

The scarcity of drinking water creates major impacts on the rural community, in particular. The people living in Aligambai have been facing numerous problems in getting a safe drinking water supply, even for their daily drinking purpose. This paper sets out to identify the contributing factors toward water scarcity and how to cope with it by increasing water productivity as an integrated approach in the study area. This study is a combination of research methods; quantitative and qualitative data collection techniques. It is built on the premise of the cultural theory, which can be used to study water scarcity issues in rural water points. Mainly, it tries to understand the gap between the performance of the rural water supply sector and the SDG Goal 6: ‘water & sanitation for all’ through networking with pluralist institutions and mechanisms. Research methods, such as interviews with key informants, direct observations, and Focus Group discussions, have been employed for the study. The secondary data were collected from the Aligambai Resource Profile, records from the GND/DS office, and the statistical records from the National Water Supply & Drainage Board. This study found that water scarcity has affected the community in terms of life and livelihood activities in Aligambai. Therefore, it tries to bring out potential solutions to coping with water scarcity by suggesting measures for water productivity at all levels through an integrated approach in the study area.

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