期刊
ENVIRONMENTAL EARTH SCIENCES
卷 75, 期 16, 页码 -出版社
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s12665-016-5978-6
关键词
Groundwater; Self-supply; Governance; Peri-urban; SDG 6; Accra
资金
- Department for International Development (DfID)
- Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC)
- National Environmental Research Council (NERC) under the UPGro Programme [NE/M008045/1]
- NERC [NE/M008045/1] Funding Source: UKRI
- Natural Environment Research Council [NE/M008045/1] Funding Source: researchfish
Poor urban dwellers tend to be disadvantaged in terms of public service delivery, often relying instead on groundwater through self-supply, but their specific needs and opportunities-and own level of responsibility-are seldom on the agenda. The Greater Accra Region of Ghana and the country as a whole serve to illustrate many interconnected aspects of urbanization, inadequate service provision, peri-urban dwellers' conditions, private actors' involvement and user preferences for packaged water. Based on interviews and a household survey covering 300 respondents, this case study aims to provide insights into the water-related practices and preferences of residents in the peri-urban, largely unplanned township of Dodowa on the Accra Plains in Ghana and to discuss implications of low accountability and a complex governance landscape on the understanding of reliance on groundwater. Self-sufficient from wells and boreholes until a distribution network expansion, Dodowa residents today take a combinator approach to access water from different sources. The findings suggest that piped water supplies just over half the population, while the District Assembly and individuals add ever-more groundwater abstraction points. Sachet water completes the picture of a low-income area that is comparatively well off in terms of water access. However, with parallel bodies tasked with water provisioning and governance, the reliance on wells and boreholes among poor (peri-) urban users has for long been lost in aggregate statistics, making those accountable unresponsive to strategic planning requirements for groundwater as a resource, and to those using it.
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