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Title Conventional and makeshift rainwater harvesting in rural South Africa: exploring determinants for rainwater harvesting mode
Full text http://edoc.hu-berlin.de/18452/27649; http://dx.doi.org/10.18452/26960
Date 2021
Author(s) Lebek, Karen; Krueger, Tobias
Abstract This article was supported by the Open Access Publication Fund of Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. - In underserved rural areas, domestic rainwater harvesting has been gaining importance as an alternative water source. In rural South Africa, however, less than 1% of households use conventional rainwater harvesting systems. Instead, a household survey in KwaZulu-Natal reveals that many households harvest rainwater in a makeshift manner, using homemade gutters and drums. Statistical analysis shows that high income, a brick house with straight gutters and good water services facilitate conventional rainwater harvesting, while a household with only round huts is easily trapped into makeshift rainwater harvesting. For upscaling rainwater harvesting in rural areas, housing types need to be considered. - Peer Reviewed
Subject(s) Rainwater harvesting; household water insecurity; household survey; round hut; KwaZulu-Natal; Bayesian; 550 Geowissenschaften; ddc:550
Language eng
Publisher Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Type of publication article; doc-type:article; publishedVersion
Format application/pdf
Rights (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
Identifier urn:nbn:de:kobv:11-110-18452/27649-0; 1360-0648; 10.1080/07900627.2021.1983778
Repository Berlin - Humboldt University of Berlin
Added to C-A: 2023-07-17;10:04:29