Golladay, Fredrick L.

Meeting the needs of the poor for water supply and waste disposal / Fredrick L. Golladay.

Washington, D.C., U.S.A. : World Bank, ©1983.

x, 52 pages ; 28 cm

World Bank technical paper, 0253-7494. Appropriate technology for water supply and sanitation ; v. 14 [i.e. 13]

This paper examines economic, political, social and cultural obstacles to meeting the needs of low-income people for water supply and waste disposal and it proposes steps to reduce these obstacles. Households are often poorly informed about available options and are unable to allocate resources efficiently among their members. The paper suggests ways in which communications, peer and family support for innovators and incentives can be strengthened. Communities organize and manage resources in order to carry out activities that cannot be profitably undertaken by households, encourage constructive change and sanction undesirable behavior. The paper proposes methods for facilitating the formation and operation of community organizations to carry out these functions. Formal bureaucracies provide professionalized technical and administrative services, and supply policy guidance, goods and financial resources to operating agencies and communities. Largely because of their inherent conservatism, formal bureaucracies often fail to satisfy these needs, especially for innovative activities. Governments must revise legal codes to permit adoption of affordable technologies, and must assist community organizations in dealing with legal, financial, technical and administrative problems.

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Water-supply Developing countries.
Sewage disposal Developing countries.
Sewage disposal.
Water-supply.
Developing countries.

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World Bank technical paper. Appropriate technology for water supply and sanitation ; v. 13.

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