Service provision in rural water supplies: analysis of four community-based systems in Colombia

Community management is the tendency to provide water to rural areas worldwide. Despite the diversity of rural communities and their water supplies, policies tend to be uniform, failing to be effective. Four rural water supplies in the Colombian Andes were studied combining quantitative and qualitat...

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Autores:
Domínguez Rivera, Isabel
Oviedo-Ocaña, Edgar Ricardo
Restrepo-Tarquino, Inés
Tipo de recurso:
Article of journal
Fecha de publicación:
2016
Institución:
Pontificia Universidad Javeriana
Repositorio:
Repositorio Universidad Javeriana
Idioma:
eng
OAI Identifier:
oai:repository.javeriana.edu.co:10554/24158
Acceso en línea:
http://revistas.javeriana.edu.co/index.php/desarrolloRural/article/view/14417
http://hdl.handle.net/10554/24158
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Summary:Community management is the tendency to provide water to rural areas worldwide. Despite the diversity of rural communities and their water supplies, policies tend to be uniform, failing to be effective. Four rural water supplies in the Colombian Andes were studied combining quantitative and qualitative methods. Aspects of infrastructure, training of human resources, revenue collection, waterquality and post-construction support were studied. The study provides evidence on the need to design policies and programs that consider rural diversity to help communal water organizations to provide sustainable services.