Homestead- and community-scale multiple-use water services: Unlocking new investment opportunities to achieve the millennium development goals

Since the early 2000s, a new participatory approach to water services delivery is emerging: multiple-use water services (MUS). By overcoming sectoral boundaries within the water sector, new opportunities are opened up that better align with people's practice of using water from multiple sources for...

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Autores principales: van Koppen, Barbara, Smits, S., Mikhail, M.
Formato: Journal Article
Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: Wiley 2009
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Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/21442
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author van Koppen, Barbara
Smits, S.
Mikhail, M.
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description Since the early 2000s, a new participatory approach to water services delivery is emerging: multiple-use water services (MUS). By overcoming sectoral boundaries within the water sector, new opportunities are opened up that better align with people's practice of using water from multiple sources for multiple uses. Two opportunities are discussed in this paper on the basis of past research by the CGIAR Challenge Program on Water and Food, among others. One new opportunity is homestead-scale MUS. Providing double or triple the quantities of the design norms in the domestic subsector in poor rural and periurban areas allows water users to take up significant productive activities besides meeting domestic needs. Cost-benefit ratios are favourable. Homestead-scale MUS is the most effective way of using water to contribute to all Millennium Development Goals. A related second new opportunity is community-scale MUS. This participatory approach to water services considers communities' holistic water-and landscapes and supports incremental improvements in infrastructure according to people's own priorities and needs, which are often in favour of homestead-scale MUS. New synergies in infrastructure intakes, storage and conveyance are tapped.
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spelling CGSpace214422025-12-02T10:59:51Z Homestead- and community-scale multiple-use water services: Unlocking new investment opportunities to achieve the millennium development goals van Koppen, Barbara Smits, S. Mikhail, M. water use gender multiple use water supply domestic water irrigation water poverty cost benefit analysis case studies Since the early 2000s, a new participatory approach to water services delivery is emerging: multiple-use water services (MUS). By overcoming sectoral boundaries within the water sector, new opportunities are opened up that better align with people's practice of using water from multiple sources for multiple uses. Two opportunities are discussed in this paper on the basis of past research by the CGIAR Challenge Program on Water and Food, among others. One new opportunity is homestead-scale MUS. Providing double or triple the quantities of the design norms in the domestic subsector in poor rural and periurban areas allows water users to take up significant productive activities besides meeting domestic needs. Cost-benefit ratios are favourable. Homestead-scale MUS is the most effective way of using water to contribute to all Millennium Development Goals. A related second new opportunity is community-scale MUS. This participatory approach to water services considers communities' holistic water-and landscapes and supports incremental improvements in infrastructure according to people's own priorities and needs, which are often in favour of homestead-scale MUS. New synergies in infrastructure intakes, storage and conveyance are tapped. 2009-02 2012-08-02T12:56:03Z 2012-08-02T12:56:03Z Journal Article https://hdl.handle.net/10568/21442 en Limited Access Wiley Koppen, B. van, Smits, S. and Mikhail, M. 2009. Homestead- and community-scale multiple-use water services: Unlocking new investment opportunities to achieve the millennium development goals. Irrig. Drain. 58: 73-86. doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/ird.486
spellingShingle water use
gender
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water supply
domestic water
irrigation water
poverty
cost benefit analysis
case studies
van Koppen, Barbara
Smits, S.
Mikhail, M.
Homestead- and community-scale multiple-use water services: Unlocking new investment opportunities to achieve the millennium development goals
title Homestead- and community-scale multiple-use water services: Unlocking new investment opportunities to achieve the millennium development goals
title_full Homestead- and community-scale multiple-use water services: Unlocking new investment opportunities to achieve the millennium development goals
title_fullStr Homestead- and community-scale multiple-use water services: Unlocking new investment opportunities to achieve the millennium development goals
title_full_unstemmed Homestead- and community-scale multiple-use water services: Unlocking new investment opportunities to achieve the millennium development goals
title_short Homestead- and community-scale multiple-use water services: Unlocking new investment opportunities to achieve the millennium development goals
title_sort homestead and community scale multiple use water services unlocking new investment opportunities to achieve the millennium development goals
topic water use
gender
multiple use
water supply
domestic water
irrigation water
poverty
cost benefit analysis
case studies
url https://hdl.handle.net/10568/21442
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