WASH in Low income communities

Dhaka the capital city of Bangladesh has about more than 100 informal settlements having about 1,000,000 people ( estimated) taking water from Dhaka WASA system illegally mostly.

Dhaka WASA following MDGs and now present SDGs trying to give legal water connections to them with the help of donors.

Over the last  8 to 10 years it has given almost 6000 legal connections. The present operational model is called CBO (community-based organization), and there are local powers who are doing illegal business out of the water.

What do you think about sustainable O & M model of WASH services in these low-income consumers?

Taxonomy

• Sustainable Development
• Human Rights
• Water & Sanitation
• Water Supply
• Sanitation & Hygiene
• Water Management
• Urban Water Supply
• Governance & Planning
• Water Governance
• Water Supply Regulation
• Water Sanitation & Hygiene (WASH)
• Sustainable Development
• Sustainable Development Goals
• urban water security
• Water Supply Protection
• Millennium Development Goals (MDG) Sustainable Development Goals (SDG)

4 Answers

1. The World Bank did an interesting study on Rural Water Service Delivery Models which can be found here: https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/bitstream/handle/10986/27988/W17055.pdf?sequence=4&isAllowed=y

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   1. Many thanks and Rural Water Service delivery models and Low income community (slums) of a city, not same, for its complexity. 

      Regards

2.  Social entrepreneurship could be a possible solution,  but commercial policy or  strategy of DWASA needs to be build on that problem to address in a specific way.      

3. Two examples on how the problems can be tackle,  from different perspectives and same technical solution, one from a Water utility  point of view facing the same challenges, ilegal connections, "water cartels" etc. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dj2NFrKOpVo , and the other one from NGO perspective : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DHmjAJCi5-k&t=89s . In both cases the solution adds transparency to operators and at the same time benefits for the community.

4. We can create a model where they could be micro financed to buy www.watsan.in natural water purifiers  with iron and arsenic removal addons. This way we can avoid illegal water trading and people can use their own purifiers to get clean drinking water

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   1. problem is that.........here the water users habituated to collect water from illegal vendors and these vendors are very powerful. So called houseowner, does not want to have legal water supply. Now the situation is changing .......but bill preparation and collection is a big chalance. Thanks for your comments

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      1. SIR, our filters were tried and tested by Nobel laureate PROF. MOHD YOUNUS and he believed micro financing will work. micro finance those women in the region to buy our arsenic and iron removal stand alone systems, so that any source water they get, they can purify and drink www.watsan.in