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Rural poverty or misplaced priorities?
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posted on 2018-02-12, 15:09 authored by F. Mawuena Dotse, Nii Odai LaryeaIn an attempt to stem the tide of water and sanitation
associated diseases and to provide social and economic
infrastructure towards an improvement in the living
standards of citizens, water supply to rural areas was free
in the 1960s in Ghana. The Ghana Water and Sewerage
Corporation was established in 1966 to facilitate expansion
in water supply and sewerage disposal. While in 1960 only
10.8% of the rural population had access to water supply,
by 1977 the coverage had increased to 19.7%. This was
because during the 1970s, an accelerated rural development
plan was launched during which rural populations under
500 were targeted for special attention with respect to
water supply (WASH, 1984).
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- Architecture, Building and Civil Engineering
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- Water, Engineering and Development Centre (WEDC)
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DOTSE, F.M. and LARYEA, N.O., 2001. Rural poverty or misplaced priorities? IN: Scott, R. (ed). People and systems for water, sanitation and health: Proceedings of the 27th WEDC International Conference, Lusaka, Zambia, 20-24 August 2001, pp. 103-105.Publisher
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This is a conference paper.Other identifier
WEDC_ID:12769Language
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