The Management of Water Resource in Cameroon

ISBN-13: 9783847306108 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 308 str.

Saidou Baba Oumar

Opis

Cameroons total water resources is 342.66 Km3, and about 5% of it covered agriculture, households, hydropower and industry needs, leaving a surplus of 95%. Yet, households are deprived of clean water and sanitation due to state-owned water corporations deficiency. Enforcement of water supply privatisation led to tariff increase, decrease in connections and exposure of most households to irregular supply beyond a week per month. While households objected privatisation and services delivery worsened, bulk of them praised the water quality. The least and top households wished to pay per m3 exceeded the present rate. Households access to better sanitation also felt after privatisation. Further, households water demand was price and income inelastic, but unitary elastic to households size. Yet, if the husband and not the wife ran the water portfolio of the household, the demand increases by about 5%. Overall, these factors explained 64% of the model. Cameroon witnessed poor supply of clean water and sanitation due to poor water management institutions and policy frame evolution.

O autorze

Saidou Baba Oumar is a University scholar. He worked with the Department of Economics, University of Maiduguri in Nigeria (2000-2006). Since 2006, he is with the Department of Economics and Management, University of Buea in Cameroon. He has published several articles in peer-reviewed journals.