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Title: | Far from basic rules: social dynamics, legal regulations and access to household water in Northern Ghana, 1965-2012 |
Author: | Eguavoen, Irit |
Year: | 2013 |
Periodical: | Canadian Journal of African Studies (ISSN 0008-3968) |
Volume: | 47 |
Issue: | 3 |
Pages: | 483-500 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Ghana |
Subjects: | water supply drinking water water management rural areas |
External link: | https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00083968.2013.827987 |
Abstract: | Northern Ghana has been a pilot region for implementing drinking water programmes. The Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) has acted as a key player in constructing hand pumps and small-town water systems, as well as in designing institutional frameworks for their delivery and management, which have been subsequently up-scaled to national level. Water rights are neither uniform nor immune to institutional drawbacks. This ethnographic study analyses the history of water supply in a rural settlement of Ghana from the mid-1960s through to 2012, and outlines the evolution of local water rights regimes. It shows that water development is a non-progressive, multi-directional and hegemonic process that is driven by institutional bricolage and rule making in external and local political arenas. Bibliogr., notes, ref., sum. in English and French. [Journal abstract] |