Rural Water Systems for Multiple Uses and Livelihood Security

Rural Water Systems for Multiple Uses and Livelihood Security
Author: M. Dinesh Kumar
Publisher: Elsevier
Total Pages: 324
Release: 2016-05-03
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 0128041382

Rural Water Systems for Multiple Uses and Livelihood Security covers the technological, institutional, and policy choices for building rural water supply systems that are sustainable from physical, economic, and ecological points-of-view in developing countries. While there is abundant theoretical discourse on designing village water supply schemes as multiple use systems, there is too little understanding of the type of water needs in rural households, how they vary across socio-economic and climatic settings, the extent to which these needs are met by the existing single use water supply schemes, and what mechanisms exist to take care of unmet demands. The case studies presented in the book from different agro ecological regions quantify these benefits under different agro ecological settings, also examining the economic and environmental trade-offs in maximizing benefits. This book demonstrates how various physical and socio-economic processes alter the hydrology of tanks in rural settings, thereby affecting their performance, also including quantitative criteria that can be used to select tanks suitable for rehabilitation. - Covers interdisciplinary topics deftly interwoven in the rural context of varying geo-climatic and socioeconomic situations of people in developing areas - Presents methodologies for quantifying the multiple water use benefits from wetlands and case studies from different agro ecologies using these methodologies to help frame appropriate policies - Provides analysis of the climatic and socioeconomic factors responsible for changes in hydrology of multiple use wetlands in order to help target multiple use water bodies for rehabilitation - Includes implementable models for converting single use water supply systems into multiple use systems

Community Management of Rural Water Supply

Community Management of Rural Water Supply
Author: Paul Hutchings
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 258
Release: 2017-07-14
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 1315313316

The supply of reliable and safe water is a key challenge for developing countries, particularly India. Community management has long been the declared model for rural water supply and is recognised to be critical for its implementation and success. Based on 20 detailed successful case studies from across India, this book outlines future rural water supply approaches for all lower-income countries as they start to follow India on the economic growth (and subsequent service levels) transition. The case studies cover state-level wealth varying from US$2,600 to US$10,000 GDP per person and a mix of gravity flow, single village and multi-village groundwater and surface water schemes. The research reported covers 17 states and surveys of 2,400 households. Together, they provide a spread of cases directly relevant to policy-makers in lower-income economies planning to upgrade the quality and sustainability of rural water supply to meet the Sustainable Development Goals, particularly in the context of economic growth.

Rural Water Supply in Africa

Rural Water Supply in Africa
Author: Peter Harvey
Publisher: WEDC, Loughborough University
Total Pages: 23
Release: 2004
Genre: Hand pumps
ISBN: 1843800675

This book is designed to assist those responsible for planning, implementing and supporting rural water supply prograames to increase sustainability.

Community Management of Rural Water Supply

Community Management of Rural Water Supply
Author: Paul Hutchings
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 253
Release: 2017-07-14
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1315313324

Based on twenty detailed successful case studies from across India, this book outlines future rural water supply approaches for all lower-income countries as they start to follow India on the economic growth (and subsequent service levels) transition.

Rural Water Supplies and Sanitation

Rural Water Supplies and Sanitation
Author: Peter Morgan
Publisher:
Total Pages: 358
Release: 1990
Genre: Water-supply, Rural
ISBN: 9780333485699

The Blair Research Bulletins are already established, the world over, as leading documents in the complex issue of water supply: building, maintaining and producing quality water supply whilst giving priority to the safety standards and hygienic control of the water. This book brings together many of these bulletins as a filed manual with improved illustrative material and the most modern refinements to techniques and ideas.

Supporting Rural Water Supply

Supporting Rural Water Supply
Author: Harold Lockwood
Publisher: Practical Action Publishing
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2011
Genre: Water-supply, Rural
ISBN: 9781853397295

This book offers insights into ways countries and individual organisations can move towards a service delivery approach and is a valuable resource for professionals in who are interested in improving the design and implementation of rural water supply programmes. Published in association with IRC.