Toward equitable urban water supply and sanitation in Dar es Salaam: The dialectic relationship between policy-driven and everyday practices

Pascale Hofmann

Utilities Policy, 2022, vol. 78, issue C

Abstract: Many cities in the Global South continue to struggle with providing services with increasing inequalities in the distribution of and access to safe drinking water. For lower-income inhabitants, access changes over time and is shaped by the interplay between practices driven by policy and the range of diverse everyday practices in low-income areas. Existing practices are entangled with the evolution of the natural and built environment in which human-nature interactions are continuously negotiated in situ and over time through different infrastructure and service configurations that can alter water flows, social relations, and practices. Focusing on the case of Dar es Salaam, this paper examines policy-driven practices by the utility (and other key players in formal service provision) and their interaction with everyday practices to spell out implications for urban (in)equality.

Keywords: Service provision inequalities; Dar es Salaam; Everyday practices (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jup.2022.101395

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