This 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 and natural science and engineering research work programme (2009-2014) 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 contributed to the outcomes.
There are clearly huge unmet water needs in this community requiring action by both community and non-community people. This book examines the unmet needs apparent in the community despite the enactment of the Water Statute (1995), the rolling out of the National Water Policy (1999), the improved water resources, the community-based management schemes and the gender ratios in their make-up that have been put in place. The deficiencies in these as enabling frameworks are apparent to the community and the researchers alike.
While much activity has been generated to meet the Millennium Development Goals (UN 2000) on water, this book tells the tale of how water resources, their quality and sustainability are currently distributed, protected and managed in one case study parish.
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