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2020 | OriginalPaper | Chapter

20. Water and Sanitation Inequality in Africa: Challenges for SDG 6

Authors : Horman Chitonge, Amanda Mokoena, Minga Kongo

Published in: Africa and the Sustainable Development Goals

Publisher: Springer International Publishing

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Abstract

Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 6, which focuses on sustainable access to clean water and sanitation, pledges to ensure the ‘availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all’ people. Achieving this goal goes beyond the task of making water and sanitation services available to all communities; it entails measures that ensure that there is sustainable use and management of water resources. In this chapter, we examine water and sanitation services in Africa, highlighting the challenges of achieving the two dimensions of SDG 6. Using examples from South Africa, Uganda and Zambia, we identify some of the enduring challenges around providing sustainable access to water and sanitation in Africa. We illustrate that, although different African countries face different challenges in this regard, there is a common challenge around the huge disparities between rural and urban communities.

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Footnotes
1
Disaggregated data on water and sanitation are not readily available in most countries; we only had access to the 2008 data.
 
2
At 918 m3 per capita of freshwater availability, South Africa is below the water stress threshold of 1000–1666 m3 per capita (Falkenmark and Lundqvst 1989). With a 24.8% withdrawal of renewable freshwater, South Africa is just on the threshold which is 2%. The 24.8% figure is for 2005, the current withdrawal ratio is slightly higher than this [see Hadden (2016) for details].
 
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Metadata
Title
Water and Sanitation Inequality in Africa: Challenges for SDG 6
Authors
Horman Chitonge
Amanda Mokoena
Minga Kongo
Copyright Year
2020
Book
Africa and the Sustainable Development Goals

Print ISBN: 978-3-030-14856-0

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-030-14857-7

Copyright Year: 2020

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-14857-7_20