Africa's Water and Sanitation Infrastructure

Access, Affordability, and Alternatives

Sudeshna Ghosh Banerjee, Elvira Morella

• Publisher: World Bank
• Year: 2011
• eBook ISBN: 9780821384572
• Topic: Technology & Engineering
• Subtopic: Environmental Management
• Index: Technology & Engineering

The Africa Infrastructure Country Diagnostic (AICD) has produced continent-wide analysis of many aspects of Africa's infrastructure challenge. The main findings were synthesized in a flagship report titled Africa's Infrastructure: a time for transformation, published in November 2009. Meant for policy makers, that report necessarily focused on the high-level conclusions. It attracted widespread media coverage feeding directly into discussions at the 2009 African Union Commission Heads of State Summit on Infrastructure. Although the flagship report served a valuable role in highlighting the main findings of the project, it could not do full justice to the richness of the data collected and technical analysis undertaken. There was clearly a need to make this more detailed material available to a wider audience of infrastructure practitioners. Hence the idea of producing four technical monographs, such as this one, to provide detailed results on each of the major infrastructure sectors, information and communication technologies (ICT), power, transport, and water, as companions to the flagship report. These technical volumes are intended as reference books on each of the infrastructure sectors. They cover all aspects of the AICD project relevant to each sector, including sector performance, gaps in financing and efficiency, and estimates of the need for additional spending on investment, operations, and maintenance. Each volume also comes with a detailed data appendix, providing easy access to all the relevant infrastructure indicators at the country level, which is a resource in and of itself.

Table of contents

• Contents
• About the AICD
• Series Foreword
• Acknowledgments
• Abbreviations
• Chapter 1 The Elusiveness of the Millennium Development Goals for Water and Sanitation
• Chapter 2 Access to Safe Water: The Millennium Challenge
• Chapter 3 Access to Safe Sanitation: The Millennium Challenge
• Chapter 4 Improving the Organization of the Water and Sanitation Sectors
• Chapter 5 Urban Water Provision: The Story of African Utilities
• Chapter 6 Cost Recovery, Affordability, and Subsidies
• Chapter 7 Spending Needed to Meet Goals in Water and Sanitation
• Chapter 8 Bridging the Funding Gap
• Chapter 9 Policy Options for the Water and Sanitation Sectors
• Appendix 1 Access to Water Supply and Sanitation Facilities
• Appendix 2 Institutions in the Water and Sanitation Sector
• Appendix 3 Performance Indicators of Selected Water Utilities
• Appendix 4 Tariffs
• Appendix 5 Affordability of Water and Sanitation
• Appendix 6 Funding Gap for Water Supply and Sanitation
• Index
• Boxes
• Figures
• Tables