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Title Access to water in a Nairobi slum: women's work and institutional learning
Full text http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/7h52n89v
Date 2010
Author(s) Crow, Ben D; Odaba, Edmond
Abstract This paper describes the ways that households, and particularly women, experience water scarcity in a large informal settlement in Nairobi, Kenya, through heavy expenditures of time and money, considerable investments in water storage and routinized sequences of defer red household tasks. It then delineates three phases of adaptive water and social engineering undertaken in several informal settlements by the Nairobi Water Company in an ongoing attempt to construct effective municipal institutions and infrastructure to improve residential access to water and loosen the grip that informal vendors may have on the market for water in these localities.
Subject(s) slums; water supply; water markets; institutions; deliberative democracy; gender; household water storage; Kenya; Social and Behavioral Sciences
Language english
Publisher eScholarship, University of California
Type of publication article
Format application/pdf
Source Crow, Ben D; & Odaba, Edmond. (2010). Access to water in a Nairobi slum: women's work and institutional learning. UC Santa Cruz: Center for Global, International and Regional Studies. Retrieved from: http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/7h52n89v
Rights public
Identifier qt7h52n89v
Repository Berkeley - University of California
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