Water is Life: Community-based research for sustainable safe water in rural Uganda
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2015-11-21
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Practical Action Publishing.
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This is a book about community-based research in the service of improving the
sustainability and equity of safe water production, consumption, and management at
community level in rural Uganda. It provides an account of the findings of a five-year
combined social science, natural science, and engineering research work programme
(2009–14) which took place within and with the community, in the sense that the
community identified their water needs and related their everyday struggles with water
resourcing to the research team, and they contributed to the outcomes. Our research
programme began 14 years after the Ugandan government enacted the 1995 Water
Statute (which provided the framework for the use, protection, and management of
water resources and supply, the constitution of water authorities, and the devolution
of water supply undertakings), 10 years after the 1999 National Water Policy was
rolled out, and six years short of the delivery date for the Millennium Development
Goals on water.
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Fagan, H., Linnane, S., McGuigan, K., & Rugumayo, A. (2015). Introduction: Water is Life: Community-based research for sustainable safe water in rural Uganda. Practical Action Publishing.http://dx.doi.org/10.3362/9781780448893.001