Abstract
Water is life, for people and for the planet. The supply and demand for improved water plays a paramount role in the analyses of community health. The general objective of this study is to investigate whether improved water supply reduces incidents of water-borne disease and that access to latrines and water for washing reduces incidents of sanitary/hygienic-related disease, enhancing peoples’ livelihood as a result. Arising from the dearth of knowledge on rural water supply services in Kenya, this study intends to show the extent to which rural households participate in decision-making about improved water supply, assess their choices of water supply, and identify the likelihood of exclusion from the use of improved water sources among the rural households. The study proposes to use the Ordinary Least Squares Method in the analysis to verify the hypothesis that greater access to water supply will provide more available time for individuals (mostly women), to utilize in other endeavors that can influence the economic welfare (or wellbeing), and improve overall health and basic sanitation of the community.
This happens to be the first statement of Chapter 1 in the Introduction to the Overview. UN Millennium Project (2004), p 9.
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Notes
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See UN Millennium Project (2004). This MDG goal is the stated target of reducing by half the proportion of people without sustainable access to safe drinking water (and basic sanitation), p. 29.
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See Interim Report of Task Force 7 on Water and Sanitation, UN Millennium Project (2004), in particular, the Task Force’s outlined goals, p. 17 and “The Way Forward: Who needs to do what?”, p. 110.
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A Public Private Partnership, (PPP), is typically a partnership between the public and private sector for the purpose of delivering a project or service traditionally provided by the public sector. It is a different method of procuring public services and infrastructure by combining the best of the public and private sectors with an emphasis on value for money and delivering quality public services.
See also co-authored article “Entrepreneurial Strategies for Millennium Development Goals: A Differential Diagnosis Framework” at http://www.africanexecutive.com/ 28–05 July 2006
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See “Who lacks service? A typology of communities lacking access to water supply and sanitation”, Chapter 6, for depiction of a typology of communities with low water supply and sanitation service coverage, p 58, UN Millennium Project (2004).
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See Table 6.1, “Water supply: typology of un- and under-served communities”, p 66, and Table 6.2, “Sanitation: Typology of un- and under-served communities”, p 71, UN Millennium Project (2004).
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See Making rural water supply sustainable: Recommendations from a global study. The study found that sustainability was markedly higher in communities where household members made informed choices about whether to build a system and what type and which level of service they preferred, p 4.
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In the soft paperback publication, The end of poverty: How we can make it happen in our lifetime, 2005, pp 82–89, Professor Jeffrey Sachs describes in Table 1, p 84, “a seven-part diagnostic checklist that should be part of the ‘physical exam’ of any impoverished country”.
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According to the Interim Report of Task Force 7, Water and Sanitation, (2004), the term “water resources” is used to refer to the management of water as a resource for meeting the MDGs as a whole, including the infrastructure needed to manage the resource.
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See UN Millennium Project (2004). The report lists: From environmental protection and food security to increased tourism and investment, from the empowerment of women and education of girls to reductions in productivity losses due to morbidity and malnutrition – p 9.
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Nerubucha, D.W. (2010). The Determinants of Improved Water Supply for Rural Households in Kenya: A Differential Diagnosis Framework for Community Health. In: Gökçekus, H., Türker, U., LaMoreaux, J. (eds) Survival and Sustainability. Environmental Earth Sciences. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-95991-5_60
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