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Sand-storage dams : an alternate method of rural water supply in Namibia
Bibliography: leaves 95-99.
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| spelling | oai:open.uct.ac.za:11427/13881 Sand-storage dams : an alternate method of rural water supply in Namibia Hartley, Peter Alexander Largier, John Environmental Science Bibliography: leaves 95-99. The costs of establishing and installing a borehole are high, ranging from R 57 000 to R 180 000 depending on the depth of hole drilled and type of pump installed (DR WS, 1996). Because of these high costs, the Namibian Government has historically taken responsibility for the provision, operation and maintenance of rural water supply. However, in accordance with the principles advocated in the country's new Water and Sanitation Policy (WASP), an emphasis has been placed on shifting this responsibility to the communities utilising these water supplies (DWA, 1993). In April 1997, the Directorate of Rural Water Supply (DRWS) implemented a programme for the "Community Management of Rural Water Supply". This programme is to be phased in over nine years and during this time rural communities are expected to gradually take over full responsibility for the operation and maintenance costs of their water supply. In the final stage of this programme it is envisioned that these communities will be required to replace broken equipment, and provide new installations themselves (DR WS, 1996). Expecting rural communities to pay for the full cost recovery of their water supply will result in obvious socio-economic impacts on these communities (Sekhesa, 1997). However, the present reliance of many rural communities on groundwater resources gives them little alternative but to accept responsibility for the high costs associated with boreholes. This dissertation therefore, aims at assessing the feasibility of developing sand-storage dams as an alternate supply of water in the rural areas of Namibia. 2015-09-14T18:04:23Z 2015-09-14T18:04:23Z 1997 Master Thesis Masters MPhil http://hdl.handle.net/11427/13881 eng application/pdf Department of Environmental and Geographical Science Faculty of Science University of Cape Town |
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| title | Sand-storage dams : an alternate method of rural water supply in Namibia |
| title_full | Sand-storage dams : an alternate method of rural water supply in Namibia |
| title_fullStr | Sand-storage dams : an alternate method of rural water supply in Namibia |
| title_full_unstemmed | Sand-storage dams : an alternate method of rural water supply in Namibia |
| title_short | Sand-storage dams : an alternate method of rural water supply in Namibia |
| title_sort | sand storage dams an alternate method of rural water supply in namibia |
| topic | Environmental Science |
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