Urban Water and Sanitation in Tanzania : Remaining Challenges to Providing Safe, Reliable, and Affordable Services for All
The purpose of the brief Urban Water and Sanitation in Tanzania: Remaining Challenges to Providing Safe, Reliable and Affordable Services for All is to outline the ways in which the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) framing of water and sanitati...
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2018
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/633471519163338316/Urban-water-and-sanitation-in-Tanzania-remaining-challenges-to-providing-safe-reliable-and-affordable-services-for-all http://hdl.handle.net/10986/29401 |
| Summary: | The purpose of the brief Urban Water and
Sanitation in Tanzania: Remaining Challenges to Providing
Safe, Reliable and Affordable Services for All is to outline
the ways in which the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
framing of water and sanitation is helping us to understand
not previously seen problems with urban services. For water
services we see a reduction in the gap in access to improved
and piped supply between rich and poor since 2005, with
overall coverage currently standing at 85 in 2016. However,
the low reliability of supply leads to a dependence on more
expensive, informal service providers as a secondary source.
This dependence can hit the poor hardest. In contrast, for
sanitation we see a persistent and widening gap between rich
and poor in improved access with a high proportion of shared
facilities. Furthermore, as the SDG standards point out,
lack of safe treatment and disposal of fecal matter can lead
to a greater risk of contaminated water being ingested by
the population, increasing the likelihood of waterborne
disease such as cholera. Tanzania's cities, have
experienced frequent outbreaks of cholera, with 4,985 cases
reported in 2017. |
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