Publication: The Future of Water in African Cities : Why Waste Water? Integrated Urban Water Management, Background Report
Date
2012-12
ISSN
Published
2012-12
Author(s)
Echart, Jochen
Ghebremichael, Kebreab
Khatri, Krishna
Mutikanga, Harrison
Sempewo, Jotham
Tsegaye, Seneshaw
Vairavamoorthy, Kalanithy
Abstract
The primary objective of this report is
to provide a coherent and comprehensive review on integrated
urban water management (IUWM) approach to assist public
authorities to identify and address the future challenges of
urban water supply, sanitation and flood management in
African cities. This report presents the existing and future
challenges in Africa, the possible options for innovative
technologies and approaches for their breakthrough and a way
forward to achieve the objectives of IUWM. It highlights
technical and institutional constraints of the IUWM in
Africa. It presents the global and African best practices
and trends in IUWM which are linked to urban development and
which have very good lessons learnt that can be shared
within and among the cities in Africa. The report consists
of four chapters. Chapter two reviews the existing
condition, future challenges and opportunities in Urban
Water Sector (UWS) in Africa. The review covers the current
situation of urban water systems and their management
approaches; the major future change pressures (climate
change, population growth and urbanization, deterioration of
infrastructure systems) and their impacts on UWS; and
opportunities for implementing the IUWM approach in Africa.
Chapter three introduces the key concepts and conceptual
framework of IUWM. The framework has been supplemented by
appropriate technologies and innovative approaches of IUWM
that will be suitable for cities in Africa. This chapter
also presents the global experiences and best practices of
IUWM that can be shared within the Africa cities. Chapter
four presents case studies to demonstrate how the IUWM
framework can be operationalized and to select the
appropriate technologies and approaches as discussed in
chapter 3 based on the different typologies of the cities
and development stages in Africa. The typologies include an
emerging town in Uganda (Masindi), a city with partially
developed infrastructure in Ghana (Accra) and fully
developed city in South Africa (Cape Town). Based on the
cases, a few recommendations (road map) for the
implementation of IUWM approach for other cities in Africa
have been presented in chapter four.
Citation
“Echart, Jochen; Ghebremichael, Kebreab; Khatri, Krishna; Mutikanga, Harrison; Sempewo, Jotham; Tsegaye, Seneshaw; Vairavamoorthy, Kalanithy. 2012. The Future of Water in African Cities : Why Waste Water? Integrated Urban Water Management, Background Report. © World Bank, Washington, DC. http://openknowledge.worldbank.org/entities/publication/3fba2abb-7a9d-5fac-b5d2-0ce809d0f6d0 License: CC BY 3.0 IGO.”