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- The city faces infrastructure deficits in areas like water supply, sewerage, solid waste management, and transportation.
- Strategies to boost the economy include improving basic infrastructure, reforming taxes, leveraging public-private partnerships, and dedicating city buses to industrial workers.
- An investment of 1,749 crores is required
Marketing water at the local household level involves significant trading in social
capital. A financially sustainable model of community water management that
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extractors, transporters and retailers. The majority of Angola’s peri-urban
population still rely on informal mechanisms for its water supply because the
State’s post-war reconstruction programmes to provide water to all remain
incomplete. Communities have used informal mechanisms to fill the gap. The
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implementation across the country. The article is written from a practitioner point
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from USAID in taking MoGeCA to the national scale.
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3) An example of sensitivity analysis results for DHM parameters at different
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The Challange of Water Management in Coastal Urban Megacities
1. THE CHALLENGES FOR WATER MANAGEMENT IN COASTAL URBAN
MEGACITIES (BANGKOK, JAKARTA AND MANILA)
This paper is submitted as presentation material in
Link, Engage, Activate, Develop (LEAD) ASEAN Youth Summit, Manila, Philipines
3th-5th December 2013
Corresponding author : Putika Ashfar Khoiri (1)
(1)
putikaa@gmail.com
ABSTRACT
Over the last three decades, cities in Asia-Pacific have been growing rapidly and transforming
functionally and physically. The most spectacular phenomenon of urbanisation in the region is
undoubtedly the emergence of megacities, which are characterised by an intensive
urbanisation process in their adjacent suburban areas, the urbanised areas extending up to 100
km into cities hinterlands. The term megacity is used for the cities with at least 10 million
inhabitants. For the city managers this phenomenon pose both old and new problems, because
megacity development has gone hand in hand with urban poverty concentration and
environmental degradation, particularly in urban hydrological systems. Hydrological impacts
then include the effects of these changes on the natural drainage, runoff, groundwater,
sediment, water quality, water demands etc. Even where economic “miracles” have occurred
in Asian megacities during the last three decades, urban water supply and sanitation services
have remained well below standard. The objectives of this paper are to discuss the issues the
challenges of urban water management in three Asian tropical coastal megacities: Bangkok,
Jakarta and Manila. The paper also proposes an alternative to improve urban water
management to ensure the sustainability and equality of water related services.
KEYWORDS: megacity, urban water management, urban poor, water supply, sanitation and flood.
INTRODUCTION
Bangkok (Thailand), Manila (Philippines) and Jakarta (Indonesia) are national capital in
Southeast Asia. The three megacities have physical, environmental and socio-economic
similarities, but they have no obvious cultural and religious similarities (Bangkok is a
Buddhist city; Manila’s population is predominantly catholic and Jakarta is capital of the
biggest Islamic country). They lie within the tropical zone. Throughout a year, the average
daily temperature stays within range of 26-28°C. The wet season occurs between November
and April, with the rest of the year remaining dry. The average annual precipitation is over
2000 mm, 70% of which is concentrated in the wet season. The peak in rainfall is experienced
between January and February when the total reaches 400 mm/month.
Bangkok Metropolitan Administration is located on the lower reach of the Chao Phraya River
about 25 kilometres north of the Gulf of Thailand. The metropolitan area covers some 1,569
km² of flat low-lying land, most of which is only 0.5 to 1.5 m above sea level. The Chao
Phraya River, which originates in the northern mountains of the country and flows from north
to south through the fertile rice fields of the central plains into the Gulf of Thailand, covers
area of 162,000 km² almost one third of the whole country. The city was once criss-crossed by
canals and waterways. In the early years of Bangkok more than 100 canals were dug; these
functioned as highways, providing access to the commercial centres. Because of poor natural
drainage the city relied on the canal system for drainage, even though the water level of such
2. canals is only marginally lower than the land elevation throughout the year. Much of this once
extensive system of canals all draining towards the Chao Pharya River, has been filled in to
make way for roads; in its present state the canal network now accounts for only some 1.4 %
of the city’s surface area. Storm sewers, constructed in lieu of the canals and the remaining
canals area not totally capable of coping with the ever-increasing run-off.
Jakarta Metropolitan Area or Jabotabek is comprised of eight administrative units at different
levels: Jakarta city has provincial level status and seven municipalities and districts under the
jurisdiction of the West Java province (i.e. the municipalities of: Bogor, Tangerang, Bekasi
and Depok; and the districts of: Bogor, Tangerang and Bekasi). The city of Jakarta is located
on a flat, coastal plain which comprise alluvial land formed by 13 rivers with a total
catchment area of 1,058 km². The city, created in the sixteenth century at estuary formed by
these rivers where they enter the Java sea, covers 655 km². The northern coastal region, which
consist of a low-lying plain with an elevation below 50 m, composes 40% of the whole city
area and is subject to flooding from river overspill and heavy local rainfall. Adjacent to this
region, a zone of higher elevation of between 5.5 and 10 m gradually rises from the coastal
plain to compose some 25% of the city area. The south, an elevated area of between 10 and 50
m composes a further 25% of the city area, while remaining 10% is hilly and lies at an
elevation of over 50 m. Further south, the terrain is mountainous and it is there that the rivers
which flow trough Jakarta originate. The largest of the rivers is the Ciliung River, which has a
catchment area of 347 km² and a total length of 148 km.
Metropolitan Manila (MM) encompasses four cities – Manila Calloncan, Pasay and Quenzon
– and 13 municipalities, covering 636 km² (as large as Singapore). The western part of
Metropolitan Manila lies in a coastal margin stretching some 30 km along the Manila Bay and
is characterised by flat and low-lying terrain with elevations ranging from 0 to 1 meter above
mean sea level. The north-eastern part has a rolling topography and extends 20 km inland
until the foot of a mountain range. The southern part of Metropolitan Manila is between two
large bodies of water, i.e. Manila Bay to the west and Laguna de bay Lake to the east. The
Pasig river flows east to west through central Manila and is about 17 km from the confluence
of the Marikina river and Napindan channel to Manila Bay. The Pasig:Marikina chatchment is
estimated to be about 765 km².
The megacities are centres of political, social and economic activity in most Asian-Pacific
nations. For example, the Bangkok Metropolitan Region (BMR), with some 10 million
inhabitant accounts for about 15% of Thailand’s total population and about 60% of the nation
urban population. In economic terms, Bangkok’s primacy is even more overwhelming. It
produces 50% of Thailand’s gross national product (GNP), has 75% of the country’s
manufacturing firms (between 1960 and 1986 nearly 83% of the approved investments were
made in BMR), and 34% of the financial institutions, which control 70% of the country’s
commercial bank deposits. Over 90% of the country’s exports and imports pass through
Bangkok. Bangkok is now eleven times larger than the next three most populous cities in the
country. The same urban concentration is also found in Jakarta. The Jakarta Metropolitan
Area (JMA) accounts for 12% of the GNP, 61% of the country’s bank and financial activities
and 31% of domestic industrial output. In 1999, the JMA had an estimated population of
nearly 20 million (more than 10% of national population), which is expected to exceed 30
million by the year 2010. Metropolitan Manila is the Philippines’ primary administrative
centre, with a concentration of commerce, industry and services. The city is generating one-
third of the GNP and receiving 70 % of imported goods. Around 1960 the region accounted
3. for 2.5 million inhabitants, while current estimations are around 10 million. One out of every
six inhabitants of the Philippines and 40 % of its urban population live in the MM.
The massive demographic and economic growth taking place in the three megacities have
created urban water management problems: water supply, water pollution, flood, etc.
WATER MANAGEMENT RELATED PROBLEMS: DEGRADATION OF WATER
RESOURCES AND INEQUALITY OF WATER SERVICES
Bangkok Metropolitan Administration, Metropolitan Manila and Jakarta Metropolitan Area are
experiencing a number of water management problems: water supply, sanitation, water
pollution, saltwater intrusion on the freshwater supply and flooding.
Urban water supply
In different ways, water supply is problematic in three megacities, where river water is
abundant, are mostly due to the insufficient basic infrastructure for provision of clean water
and pollution of water sources. Relatively few households receive clean water piped into their
residences and these few are relatively rich households, their water being subsidised.
In Jakarta, only about 11% of the residents have access to piped water. The poor, unless they
have access to cheap shallow wells, must rely the relatively expensive water from standpipes,
which is usually delivered by vendors. River water passing through megacities is heavily
polluted by wastewater from households (liquid and human waste), commercial buildings and
institutions, as well as by discharges from industries, erosion, pesticides and fertiliser run-off
from agricultural land, solid waste1
, and fecal matter from overflowing or leaking septic tanks.
Thus, this water is not drinkable. Shallow wells are a cheap source of water for rich and poor
alike, but such water is also becoming increasingly polluted by seepage from domestic and
industrial wastes, and by saline intrusion due to over-extraction. Kjellén, Brat and
McGranahan (1995) reported that almost 80% of the unsalinated areas use well water for
drinking, while less than 10% do so in the areas which are classified as having saline ground
water. In the absence of potable ground water, the salinated areas have a higher rate of PAM2
connections and those without connections rely heavily on vendors, reselling piped water.
Vendors buy water from public hydrant managers working at least indirectly for the utility
and then sell it door to door3
.
In Metropolitan Manila, the upper-income residents have piped water, septic tanks with
effluent dispersed into covered drains and regular garbage collection. In contrast, about 2
million poor people live in dense and abject conditions in blighted areas. There most housing
is makeshift; water is carried from distant sources and the areas are subject to deep flooding
during rains. Sewerage, where it exists, is provided through a manual flush toilet to septic
tanks, cesspools, vaults and pits, which are often improperly designed. Effluent from these
facilities (black water) and grey water kitchen, bath and laundry waste drain to the nearest
1
As Jakarta’s rivers flow through the Metropolitan Area, they pick up large amounts of disposed effluents and solid wastes
originating from domestic and industrial sources (around 1400 m3 per day). The disposal of solid waste in water bodies not
only degrades water quality but also causes clogging of drains, which in turn causes flooding and littering in Jakarta Bay and
Kepulauan Seribu.
2
PAM Jaya = Perusahaan Air Minum Jakarta Raya, Jakarta’s municipal water authority.
3
Public hydrants in Jakarta are
4. watercourse. Impervious and saturated soils prevent the proper functioning of subsurface
drainage and seepage pits. Typhoid, cholera and gastroenteritis are endemic. More recent
statistics are unavailable and will be compiled under a proposed project.
Sources of water and protection of water quality will indeed become more critical with more
cases emerging of severe shortages that directly affect daily life. Meeting the problem of
water for human use will require application of macro-planning policies to improve the
allocation of water among competing interests, as well as better controls on water use within
households, industries and commerce. The implicit solution for these problems is to prepare
an integrated urban water management plan.
The inadequacy of water delivery network has caused other major side effects. In Bangkok
only 21% of the Metropolitan area was found to be serviced by the water network. The lack of
piped water led residents in the suburbs to dig water wells. Large scale extraction of ground
water has led to compaction of the clays layer under the city, leading to land subsidence and
increased frequency of floods. A 1990 study by the Asian Institute of Technology found that
metropolitan Bangkok has sank by 1.6 m during 1960-88 period, an average of about 5.7 cm
per year. Most of the land subsidence was caused by the widespread pumping of ground water
to serve the rapidly expanding metropolis. In 1991, groundwater accounts for 90-95% of daily
industrial water consumption (1.6 million m3 per day). Groundwater pumping has also
contributed to the intrusion of saltwater from the Gulf of Thailand into freshwater aquifers.
The same phenomenon has also been reported in Jakarta, seawater intrusion in the shallow
and deep aquifers had reached 10 - 15 km from the coastline (Tjahjadi, 1991).
Land subsidence, widespread flooding, and seepage of saline water into freshwater aquifers
pervade a city in which only 2% of Bangkok’s population is connected to the city’s antiquated
sewer network. The lower sections of the Chao Praya River are no longer able to support life.
With its population doubling every 15 years, ground water depletion has resulted in seepage
of the sea water into water tables under the centre of the city.
Sanitation and water pollution
Surface water pollution. Water of the rivers and canals crossing megacities are heavily
polluted by waste water from: households (liquid waste and human waste), commercial
buildings and institutions together with discharges from industries, erosion, pesticide and
fertilizer run-off from agricultural land, solid waste, and fecal matter from overflowing or
leaking septic tanks. As a result, the rivers system in megacities are biologically dead and the
shoreline of the bays are unsuitable for recreation. In Bangkok, about 1.5 million m3 of
wastewater is released into waterways every day and only 23% of Bangkok’s population is
connected to sewer systems. Jakarta having no sewer system, the people rely on septic tanks
and leaching pits, often improperly designed. Household liquid waste is estimated to
contribute 50-75% of the organic loading in the rivers in urban areas, and industrial pollution
has contributed in the range of 25-50%. Increasing levels of liquid, solid and toxic waste from
industrial and processing activities are causing a decline in fish productivity and increased
morbidity and mortality from the spread of infectious diseases. It is reported that mercury
pollution in Jakarta Bay has already led to brain disorders among children. In Metropolitan
Manila, the daily water pollution load generated in 1995 was estimated at about 980 tons of
biochemical oxygen demand (BOD), of which 40% was from residential wastewater, 38%
5. from industries and 22% from solid waste dumped in rivers. Water pollution causes adverse
effects for human health, particularly with increases in diarrhoea and cholera, as well as in the
cost of treatment for drinking water sources, and in the cost of transporting water from distant
sources.
Groundwater contamination. Groundwater is becoming polluted in much of the urban area by
seepage from domestic and industrial wastes, and by saline intrusion because of over-
extraction. In Jakarta, approximately 60% of the population and about 90% of the big
groundwater users (industries, hotels, business centres) rely on the ground water due to the
limitations in pipe water supply. Besides its impact on surface pollution, household liquid
waste is also polluting water supplies from shallow wells. A survey on shallow wells in
Jakarta, where 84% of the samples were contaminated by fecal coliforms, illustrates that
groundwater is contaminated on a large scale. Most of the households of Southeast Asian
megacities use individual septic tanks, which are without subsurface filters and are not
cleaned on a regular basis. Because of bad design, irregular cleansing and poor maintenance,
most septic tanks function poorly.
In the long term, the solution to wastewater disposal in the megacities is sewers. But sewers
are expensive. In 1977, the Indonesian government had completed a wastewater disposal
master plan for Jakarta that recommended phased construction of a conventional sewer
system. The World Bank was requested to finance the first stage but rejected it as too
expensive and, accordingly, urged the borrower to choose a cheaper alternative. In 1979, the
Bank and the Indonesian government agreed on a pilot project that combined piped sewerage
and low-cost sanitation. A master plan developed at the same time by the Philippines
authorities was similar to the Jakarta project, recommending comprehensive piped sewerage
for Manila. The World Bank approved a loan in 1980 to finance the project. In parallel, the
Asian Development Bank made a loan for a comprehensive rehabilitation and reconstruction
of the existing central sewer system. Bangkok has been undertaking a government-financed
wastewater treatment program executed by Bangkok Metropolitan Administration, with
partial funding from ADB.
Flooding
Bangkok, Jakarta and Manila suffer from repeated flooding. In many cases, changes in land-
use as part of the urbanisation processes increase the susceptibility of flooding. At the same
time, the growing concentration of population and economic activities exacerbate the human
suffering and economic loss, which results from such urban inundation. Other causes of
flooding in coastal megacities are the following factors: local heavy rainfall; high flow in the
rivers crossing the cities; the back-up effect of high tides on the rivers; typhoon; land
subsidence, and insufficient drainage capacity.
In Bangkok, one of the largest floods in the past several decades occurred in 1983 where
Bangkok remained flooded for more than three month. The flood which resulted in severe
flood damage was caused by a combination the above factors. In Jakarta the primary causes of
periodical flooding are intensive rainfall combined with high tides in Jakarta Bay. This is
exacerbated by land subsidence, which is up to 6 cm annually in some parts of the city, and is
linked to overexploitation of ground water resources. In Manila, flooding in 1986 that
inflicted tremendous damage in Metropolitan Manila and was the most serious to be suffered
in recent decades was caused by typhoon.
6. Efforts to control floods have long been made by the governments of each country. In Jakarta
the West Banjir Canal was completed in 1920 and in Bangkok the first formal flood control
master plan was established in 1968. The lag in the development of floods control in the
megacities are directly linked to the poor control urbanisation, aggravated by lack of human,
financial and organisational resources. In particular, the spread of informal settlements in
peri-urban areas.
URBAN POOR AND GROWTH OF SLUMS
In most megacities of developing countries (like Jakarta, Manila, Bangkok, Shanghai, Lagos,
Bombay etc.), a fairly large proportion of the urban population consists of poor people,
sometimes referred to as the “ informal ” population. They have come relatively recently to
the city from rural communities in search of a better life, and have settled down mainly in
squatter and slum areas in peri-urban. It is estimated that 60% of the urban population of Asia
living in slum or squatter settlements and the number of poor in Southeast Asian megacities
has doubled over the last 10 years, because of large influxes of migrants from rural areas and
from natural population growth. Thus most of the urban poor are not given proper public
services (water supply, sanitation, waste removal, electricity and other utilities), primarily for
the following reasons: (i) they are not considered to be entitled to this public service because
of their illegal settlement and non-tax paying status; (ii) they normally live in areas where
such a service is physically difficult, due to narrow streets and other transport conditions; and
(iii) they and/or the city authorities simply cannot afford such services even if they wish to
have them.
When rural poor migrates to urban areas, the implications of the dearth of assets becomes
underscored by their lack not only of land but also in the form of human capital. Everywhere,
the poor have no or a very low level of educational achievements or marketable skills. They
are thus condemned in urban areas to the very lowest paying unskilled work, if they find any
work/employment at all. Although urban incomes are generally higher than in rural areas,
they are needed for virtually any service or goods – to pay rent, transport costs, food, health
costs, so that the living costs of the urban poor are significantly higher than the rural poor.
Many items that have to be purchased in urban areas are free or cheaper in many rural areas,
as they are growing or are produced locally, e.g. freshwater, fuel, traditional building
materials, which has environmental consequences. Poor households thus have to deliberately
put out their labour for such income and where possible, diversify their sources of income to
reduce the risks that adverse circumstances could cause by a sharp drop of income from one
source.
The situation of the urban poor is further exacerbated by their lack of access to the decision-
making mechanisms that determine how resources are utilised. The urban poor exist at the
fringes of societal activities such as employment, access to social services and are often
displaced to environmentally unsafe areas of societal space without any recourse or voice in
any of these decisions. Local authorities are still very reluctant to shift their attitudes from a
paternalistic approach to an empowering approach, as they view this as loss of control over
resources as well as a reduction in their power. Many projects and programmes however, have
recognised the importance of civil society participation in terms of encouraging community
involvement in decision-making processes and influencing how resources are utilised. This
could lead to an increase in self-esteem of individuals and households, stimulating better
7. community organisation and enhance a community capability to negotiate its role in the
development process.
In Asia-Pacific megacities, even where economic “miracle” has occurred during around three
decades, significant proportions of the urban population receive income below basic need
poverty lines and live in sub-standard housing. It is predicted that 60% of the urban
population of Asia would be found living in slum or squatter settlements by the turn of the
century unless drastic reforms were undertaken. In Jakarta, Bangkok, Manila, Ho Chi Minh
City and Seoul, we still find people making incomes from refuse dumps, the official
percentage of families living in sub-standard housing stock in this city remained at around 17
to 25% (Par, Kim, and Yang, 1986). Widening income disparities concurrent with increasing
economic growth resulted in an increase in absolute poverty in some megacities.
In Metropolitan Manila, during the past decades the economic growth has been modest and in
some years it has been even negative, which could be partly attributed to a debt-service ratio
of nearly 40%. The unemployment rate persists at around 30% or 3.2 million people could be
considered as poor. Recent calculations even indicate that the actual number could be as high
as 4.3 million. These figures indicate the central problem confronting the management of
Metropolitan Manila: stagnating economic growth, considerable population increase and high
unemployment and poverty rates. To these we can add urban environmental problems, such as
the pollution of water and air and large slum areas where people live under appalling
conditions (van Naerssen, Ligthard and Zapanta, in Ruland 1996).
When viewing environmental distress and poverty together, the major conclusion to be drawn
is that the consequences of environmental deterioration fall heaviest on the poor4
. They are
most affected by the lack of water supply and sanitation facilities, flooding, over crowding,
poor ventilation, etc, and consequently they suffer most from environmental diseases. What is
more, their houses are constructed over areas of periodically flooding where there is no
sewerage system. In many instances, it is the poor who actually are the de facto caretakers of
the environment through the types of jobs generated by environmental disregard on the part of
the affluent and elite. Far from “causing” environmental deterioration, poverty is more
accurately a manifestation of disempowerment, delegitimation, marginalisation and
exploitation of the lower strata of society. Much of the economy of the poor is derived from
deteriorating environmental condition in the cities of Asia. Three things characterise the poor
societies: lack of assets hence their dependence on their labour for generating income, lack of
access to income-generating opportunities and to participate in decision-making.
The link between poverty and environmental degradation in megacities is often most visible
in slum settlements. Slum communities in the BMA are typically found in peri-urban area. In
1992, 19.4 % of the BMA urban population, or nearly 1,5 million people, were living in slum
communities (NESDB, 1991). In Metro Manila, too, the growth of the population and massive
increase of squatter areas all over the metropolitan area urgently demand a well-considered
policy towards both illegal subdivisions and large-scale housing and habitat programmes.
Two-thirds of the population in Jakarta live in impermanent or semi-permanent housing.
Rapid urbanisation, coupled with growing poverty and income inequality, could give rise to
higher rates of slum formation in the coming years, and thus expose even people to unhealthy
and degraded environmental conditions.
4
Poverty line usually corresponds to World Bank estimates (1985) whereby being poor is associated with per capita income
levels of $370 per annum and absolute poverty as those households earning $275 per annum.
8. Based on poor condition of the megacities, we have to find both a conceptual and
programming framework for urban water management and poverty eradication in a
sustainable manner. It embraces the principles of sustainable human development through
participation, empowerment, gender equity and good governance. The operational framework
of the approach will be based on a participatory process which brings together various actors,
local government and municipal authorities as well as local communities in processes of
decision-making, policy formulation and implementation. Special emphasis will be also
placed on rising public awareness among poor community, i.e. providing poor community and
local informal organisation with better understanding on how to reach access to water supply
and sanitation facilities and then how to get better organised to participate in system
management.
CONCLUSION: TOWARDS INTERDICIPLINARY APPROACH AND CROSS-
SECTORAL INITIATIVE IN URBAN WATER MANAGEMENT FOR THE
URBAN POOR
Megacities managers (government) in Asia have proved themselves to be largely unable to
reverse the inequality of public services -particularly water supply and sanitation- of their
cities and have been particularly inefficient in attempts to assist the poor in their efforts to
manage the environments of slum and squatter settlements being produced and reproduced in
and around cities. The reasons for these failures are manifold and systemic. One is the general
pattern of top-down exercise of political authority works against the inclusion of needs of
much of the population in the routine of governance and planning in the public domain. This
concentration of political and planning power has a spatial as well as social or class
dimension. Specifically, local municipal governments are rarely given the power to
effectively manage the environmental problems they face. Although problems are often better
understood and management more appropriately organised at the local level, local
governments in most Asian countries are endowed with neither significant political nor
economic power and also remain largely unaccountable to the citizenry in their geographical
domain.
Governments can and should have a central role in reducing or removing many forms of
inequality – for instance in access to water supply and sanitation facilities which ensure that
low-income households no longer suffer from the diseases and injuries that are easily
prevented or treated. Of course, governments should also guarantee equality in civil and
political rights. Competent and effective public services can reduce the level of inequality.
Where public agencies ensure that all shelters within cities have adequate provision for water,
sanitation, drainage and garbage removal, this also greatly reduces the health burden of
having a low income. But in general, governments do little to address such inequalities – and
in many instances, they actually reinforce it. Middle and upper-income groups often receive
more benefit from publicly funded infrastructures and services than low-income groups. They
often underpay for the environmental services they receive from public agencies. Meanwhile,
the inadequacies in environmental legislation (or in its enforcement) mean lower costs for
many enterprises but increased environmental health risks for many citizens. Most
governments will also tend to avoid discussions of inequality since growing health
inequalities between rich and poor, that are evident in many nations, raise questions about the
full costs of their economic and social policies. In addition, many local authorities are
constrained in the possibilities of reducing inequalities both by their national governments and
by the conditions imposed by development assistance agencies.
9. There is an important new element in the thinking about urban water management and
poverty reduction. This is the recognition that it is the poor’s lack of influence on government
policies and institutions and their lack of protection from the law that explain a significant
part of the deprivation they face. There is also the recognition that governments will not
address urban poverty and its underlying cause unless “the poor” have more political
influence.
This paper proposes the following strategy to urban water management, which could ensure
that low-income households access to water supply and sanitation facilities.
- Improvement public awareness of the right for everybody have sustainable access to
water supply and sanitation facilities. The poor have to know how to use the strength
of the community (particularly the low income) and look for social response (informal
community group, NGO and international organisations) to impose demand for basic
water supply and sanitation to local governments.
- Fostering regular, formal interaction between local government and civil society
(including through community-based, non-governmental organisations and public-
private organisations);
- Creation of interdisciplinary networks on urban water management and poverty
alleviation that would consist of: central and local government, national and
international universities, international organisations, NGOs, local community, etc.
Strengthening institutional framework of urban governance (urban planning and management)
and human resources capacity on urban water management. Special emphasis should be also
placed on offering political and technical responses to urban water problems that the poor are
faced in coastal megacities.
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