Water Accessablity

Question 1

What % of the population is estimated to be on low income in 2030?

Answer 1

15-80%

Question 2

Where is the urban growth rate fastest?

Answer 2

Sub-saharan Africa

Question 3

By 2030, the worst performing settlements may have;

Answer 3

• 120/1000 infant mortality rates
• 20-30 life average expectancy
• 50% under 5yr olds being underweight and underheight

Question 4

Urban Poverty is multidimensional

Answer 4

• Limited or no safety net
• Poor quality, unsafe, crowded housing
• Inadequete public infrasturcture and service
• Unstable income
• Inadequete protection of rights

Question 5

What is there a rising gap between?

Answer 5

Provision of piped water and growing urban population

Question 6

Bustee K

Answer 6

• Dhaka slum
• 2005, life dominated by hanging toilets and shallow dug wells
• 2009, first generation of community latrines and waterpoints
• 2015, second generation of community latrines and waterpoints
• Diarrhoa cases have increased
• Faecal contimaination has increased

Question 7

Paper?

Answer 7

Anindita Sarkar (2020) Everyday practices of poor urban women to access water: Lived realities from a Nairobi slum, African Studies

Question 8

Who does the primary water collecting?

Answer 8

Women

Question 9

What are the problems with water accessablity in slums?

Answer 9

Water accessablity may be unpredicatable on varying timescales, and water collecting points may be distant and crowded

Question 10

Why is there a difficulty?

Answer 10

• Overstressed water reserves and absense of individual utility pipes

Question 11

How does water collecting affect women?

Answer 11

Damages their physicla health (back pain from carrying water) and mental health (unpredicatablity can create anxiety)

Question 12

Where was this study focused?

Answer 12

The Malthare slums in Nairobi, which grew from 0.8 million to 3.1 million 1999-2009.

Question 13

How many households was data taken from?

Answer 13

258

Question 14

Results

Answer 14

• 90% households rely on community standpipes
• Women collect water in 93% households
• Child occupy mothers, neglecting education
• Water is stored in any possible vesicle,
• Roughly 53m away but surronded by steep, narrow paths
• Water collection can take 30 min to 2 hours, women may wait for nightfall, leaving them exhausted
• Violence, theft and assult common
• Wife-beatings common in long queues
• In drought, people may open defecate to save water