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A willingness to pay for maintenance and operation of rural DWS schemes
conference contribution
posted on 2018-02-12, 15:08 authored by Betman Bhandari, Miriam Grant, Shauna CurryImproved planning methodology is sought for sustainable and replicable rural water schemes. Improved methodology
should have a mechanism to recover the necessary resources for operation and maintenance costs from water users. This
paper analyses the differences between the users’ willingness to pay in rural markets and village DWS schemes of Nepal
based on information collected through a questionnaire survey of 205 households and institutional survey of 12 DWS
water user committees. Due to different socio-economic scenarios among rural villages and rural market centres, core
problems in management and operation of their DWS schemes are immensely different. Weak institutional capability is
the prime problem in rural village DWS schemes. On the contrary, technicalities such as insufficient water quantity and
inconvenient locations of water points are the major problems in rural market centres. Moreover, users’ satisfaction level
is influential for operation and maintenance of both rural DWS schemes.
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- Water, Engineering and Development Centre (WEDC)
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BHANDARI, B. ... et al, 2006. A willingness to pay for maintenance and operation of rural DWS schemes. IN: Fisher, J. (ed). Sustainable development of water resources, water supply and environmental sanitation: Proceedings of the 32nd WEDC International Conference, Colombo, Sri Lanka, 13-17 November 2006, pp. 354-357.Publisher
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