 What Determines Access to Piped Water in Rural Areas? Evidence from Small-Scale Supply Systems in Rural BrazilJulia Alexa Barde World Development, 2017, vol. 95, issue C, 88-110 Abstract: This paper investigates whether small-scale water supply systems implemented and operated by water user associations increase access to piped water supply in rural Brazil by more than systems by local governments. Starting from 15% to 16% in the year 2000, access rates in rural areas with water user associations increased to 33.4% in 2010. In areas with local government supply systems, access rates only increased to 24.9%. Based on data from Brazilian census and the national water and sanitation survey, the empirical analysis in this paper shows that the observed difference is effectively due to project-type choice. Additionally it points toward higher accountability as a potential reason for better results of community-based projects. In municipalities where social groups requested a new system before the local government started implementation and therefore public awareness for the project was higher, the increase in access rates is comparable to the increase in municipalities with water user association projects. The same is true if local media is present or political competition in local elections is higher. Keywords: water supply; community-based development; rural development; Latin America; Brazil (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eee:wdevel:v:95:y:2017:i:c:p:88-110 DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2017.02.012 Access Statistics for this article World Development is currently edited by O. T. Coomes More articles in World Development from Elsevier |
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