Integrated Resource Management of Potable Water

ISBN-13: 9783659532498 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 424 str.

Musingafi Maxwell

Opis

This study is a comparative analysis of the development of the IWRM induced public policies/legislation and services relating to potable water supply and their implementation in selected cases in Zimbabwe and South Africa. It looks at the diverse patterns of municipal governance, access to potable water, different intervention mechanisms made by the local authorities and the consequences of these interventions. The study hypothesises that the adoption of the IWRM policy framework in Harare, Masvingo, Tshwane and Vhembe was not followed by comparable implementation of the policy framework. It argues that lack of ownership, lack of political and public administrative will, and low prioritisation of potable water supply translated into a lack of policy implementation and enforcement, and a lack of adequate institutional facilities for dealing with potable water issues. Furthermore it hypothesises that the level of economic development and the status of technological/scientific knowledge within a community determine the adoption of the IWRM paradigm, its implementation, effectiveness and the efficiency of existing water frameworks and institutions.

O autorze

Maxwell is the chairperson of the Zimbabwe Open University Masvingo Campus Academic Research and Publications Coordinating Committee. He completed PhD and MPhil from NWU, South Africa; and MBA from ZOU, Zimbabwe. his area of interest is grassroots governance, community development, gender, water supply and poverty reduction.