Village Site Selection in Rural Water Supply Projects in Developing Countries
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Green, Beverly
- Affiliation: Gillings School of Global Public Health, Department of Environmental Sciences and Engineering
- Abstract
- The purpose of this study is to address the research question "Given a number of villages, how would one go about ranking them as to priority for improvement of the water supply?" Improvement of the quality and quantity of water supplies in rural villages is a priority investment in developing countries; however, a review of the literature generally indicates that few countries have programs that are replicable, and that many services provided to date have been abandoned or underutilized. Since the purpose of a site selection procedure is to identify the villages that are most likely to satisfy the objectives of a water supply program, improvement of the site selection process can be expected to result in more successful projects. General agreement in the literature exists on the objectives of water supply improvement. Uncertainty is present, however, regarding: - how the objectives will best be accomplished, - how the variables indicating the objectives can be measured, - what the relationship of each objective's value is to each other and to the success of the project, and - the role of the village in the decision making process. This research paper presents a review of the site selection process, including a survey and comparative analysis of the site selection procedures currently in use. A recommendation of a site selection procedure concludes the paper.
- Date of publication
- November 1988
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- Advisor
- Whittington, Dale
- Lauria, Donald T.
- Andrews, Richard N. L.
- Degree
- Master of Science in Public Health
- Academic concentration
- Environmental Management and Policy
- Degree granting institution
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- Graduation year
- 1988
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- ad7e9272-7c4f-43e0-afeb-7a5f2526ad76
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