The nexus of water and socio-spatial inequality in sub-Saharan Africa: legacies, strands and agenda for research

E Akpabio, SU Eti-ido, K Takara - 2017 - discovery.dundee.ac.uk
This article explores the dynamic relationship between society and access to water
resources. It addresses the question of how the various mechanisms of power manifested …

The colonial roots of inequality: Access to water in urban East Africa

B Dill, B Crow - Hydrosocial Territories and Water Equity, 2017 - taylorfrancis.com
While water access is a major concern for all residents in Dar es Salaam and Nairobi, the
difficulty of hauling water is particularly pronounced in the informal settlements that are …

Water poverty in Africa: a review and synthesis of issues, potentials, and policy implications

H Jemmali - Social Indicators Research, 2018 - Springer
This study details an application of an improved Water Poverty Index (iWPI) to investigate
and assess state of water resources in 53 African countries for the period 2000–2012 with a …

[图书][B] Legitimizing inequality: A political ecology of water in the Waterberg, South Africa

M Marcatelli - 2017 - repub.eur.nl
This dissertation is about inequality in water access in former 'white'rural South Africa. It
advances two major arguments. First, water inequality has largely been normalized and …

Urban‐rural water access inequalities in Malawi: implications for monitoring the Sustainable Development Goals

EA Adams, SL Smiley - Natural Resources Forum, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Urban‐rural inequalities in water access constitute one of the major obstacles to achieving
universal water coverage. In Sub‐Saharan Africa, these inequalities have persisted for …

The role of social actors in water access in Sub-Saharan Africa: Evidence from Malawi and Zambia

T Scanlon, OP Uguru, T Jafry, B Chinsinga… - Water Resources and …, 2016 - Elsevier
Access to water in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) continues to be a challenge to the extent that
there are more people without access to water in 2015 than in 1990. This indicates that …

Water and sociality in Khayelitsha: an ethnographic study

MM Kongo - 2022 - open.uct.ac.za
This study examines forms of social relationships created around unequal municipal water
distribution in South Africa. Using the case of Khayelitsha, the study investigates residents' …

Spatial inequality in safely managed water access in Ghana

A Dongzagla, F Dordaa, F Agbenyo - Journal of Water, Sanitation …, 2022 - iwaponline.com
This paper examines inequalities in drinking water access among regions and between
urban and rural areas in Ghana with a focus on access to safely managed water service …

The Worth of Water: A Look at the Water Scarcity Crisis and the Perceptions of the Basic Need of Water in South Africa

M O'Brien - 2014 - digitalrepository.trincoll.edu
Abstract Not every South African has access to the same amount of water, quality of water, or
infrastructure for water. A core question for me during this research was if and how attitudes …

Geographical inequalities in use of improved drinking water supply and sanitation across sub-Saharan Africa: mapping and spatial analysis of cross-sectional survey …

RL Pullan, MC Freeman, PW Gething… - PLoS medicine, 2014 - journals.plos.org
Background Understanding geographic inequalities in coverage of drinking-water supply
and sanitation (WSS) will help track progress towards universal coverage of water and …