Water is Life: Progress to secure water provision in rural Uganda (Open Access)
Language: English
Published by Practical Action Publishing, 2015
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Author: McGuigan, Kevin Number Of Pages: 174 Release Date: 15-10-2015 Details: Excerpt. Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved. Water is LifeProgress to Secure Safe Water Provision in Rural UgandaBy G. Honor Fagan, Suzanne Linnane, Kevin G. McGuigan, Albert I. RugumayoPractical Action PublishingCopyright 2015 G. Honor Fagan, Suzanne Linnane, Kevin G. McGuigan and Albert I. Rugumayo and the individual contributorsAll rights reserved.ISBN: 978-1-85339-890-2ContentsList of figures and tables, Abbreviations and acronyms, 1 Water is Life: Community-based research for sustainable safe water in rural Uganda G. Honor Fagan, Suzanne Linnane, Kevin G. McGuigan, and Albert I. Rugumayo, 2 Women's access to safe water and participation in community management of supply Richard Bagonza Asaba, G. Honor Fagan, and Consolata Kabonesa, 3 Lived experiences of women as principal gatekeepers of water management in rural Uganda Joyce Mpalanyi Magala, Consolata Kabonesa, and Anthony Staines, 4 Leveraging community capacity to manage improved point-water facilities Firminus Mugumya, Ronaldo Munck, and Narathius Asingwire, 5 Towards understanding challenges to water access in Uganda Godfrey B. Asiimwe and Resty Naiga, 6 Water resources in Uganda Albert I. Rugumayo, Eleanor Jennings, Suzanne Linnane, and Bruce Misstear, 7 A school-based approach to community promotion of solar water disinfection Jacent Kamuntu Asiimwe, Charles K. Muyanja, Bríd Quilty, and Kevin G. McGuigan, 8 Solar water disinfection (SODIS) as a suitable treatment technology for harvested rainwater in rural Uganda Rosemary Nalwanga, Charles Muyanja, Kevin G. McGuigan, and Bríd Quilty, 9 Improving reliability and functional sustainability of groundwater handpumps by coating the rubber piston seals with diamond-like carbon Michael Lubwama, Brian Corcoran, John Baptist Kirabira, Adam Sebbit, and Kimmitt Sayers, 10 How a participatory geographic information system provides voice to demand services from government: A village case study Mavuto D. Tembo, Alistair Fraser, and Hannington Sengendo, 11 Water Is Life: Reflections on effective research capacity building Suzanne Linnane, Arleen Folan, and Edel Healy, CHAPTER 1Water is Life: Community-based research for sustainable safe water in rural UgandaG. Honor Fagan, Suzanne Linnane, Kevin G. McGuigan, and Albert I. RugumayoAbstractThis is a book about community-based research in the service of improving the sustainability and equity of safe water production, consumption, and management at community level in rural Uganda. It provides an account of the findings of a five-year combined social science, natural science, and engineering research work programme (2009?14) which took place within and with the community, in the sense that the community identified their water needs and related their everyday struggles with water resourcing to the research team, and they contributed to the outcomes. Our research programme began 14 years after the Ugandan government enacted the 1995 Water Statute (which provided the framework for the use, protection, and management of water resources and supply, the constitution of water authorities, and the devolution of water supply undertakings), 10 years after the 1999 National Water Policy was rolled out, and six years short of the delivery date for the Millennium Development Goals on water.Keywords: sustainability, research capacity building, water, equity, rural povertyThe projectThe programme of research which forms the basis of this book was Water is Life: Amazzi Bulamu, supported by Irish Aid/Higher Education Authority funding for research capacity building around sustainable water development. It involved the creation of a partnership between Irish third-level institutes and the University of Makerere in Uganda to involve Ugandan-based and Irish-based teams of academics in training Ugandan or Ugandan-based researchers to doctoral level in the practical action setting of a poor rural community. The involve.…
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- Water is Life: Progress to secure water provision in rural Uganda (Open Access)
- Author
- McGuigan, Kevin
- Publisher
- Practical Action Publishing
- Publication year
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- Binding
- Softcover/Paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 185339890X
- ISBN 13
- 9781853398902
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About the Author
Suzanne Linnane is Senior Lecturer, Centre for Freshwater and Environmental Studies, Dundalk Institute of Technology, Ireland
Kevin G. McGuigan is Professor at the School of Medicine, Dublin
Albert Rugumayo is Senior Lecturer, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda
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We specialise in bringing to market items that have never before appeared for sale to online book-lovers. Volumes such as low-circulation Irish local histories, programmes for seminal theatrical performances, influential 20th century political pamphlets, and important government and agency literature of enormous value to researchers have been dispatched to every corner of the globe with love and care from Dublin.
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