Community Organized Household Water Increases Not Only Rural incomes, but Also Men’s Work

Ben Crow, Brent Swallow and Isabella Asamba

World Development, 2012, vol. 40, issue 3, 528-541

Abstract: This paper explores community-organized, household water supply in seven communities in western Kenya. We compare water use, labor use, income and the conditions for collective action in three sets of communities: two have protected springs and piped homestead connections; two have protected springs but no homestead connection; and three draw potentially contaminated water from unprotected springs.

Keywords: gender; collective action; water management; impact assessment; Lake Victoria; Kenya (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2011.08.002

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