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Perspectives on Self Supply

In order to stimulate your thinking and encourage debate, here are some perspectives on self supply from different rural water supply professionals.

Potential for Self Supply in sub-Saharan Africa

Sally Sutton

This desk study outlines the characteristics of Self Supply and the indicators from national statistics both for potential and existing household and small group supplies. It looks in slightly more detail at five countries, Malawi, Mozambique, Uganda, Tanzania, and Zambia.

The risks of a technology-based MDG indicator for rural water supply

Sally Sutton (Paper Presented at 2008 WEDC Conference)

The MDG indicator for access to safe water equates technology with water quality based largely on designed rather than observed capacity to block routes of faecal contamination. This is a useful driver for donor and government investment in rural water supply, but breeds donor dependency as generally accepted technologies are unaffordable to consumers.

 
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