Discourses of illegality and exclusion: When water access matters

Global Public Health

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 221-233

  Mudege, Netsayi Noris ^a   Zulu, Eliya M ^a  

^a Shelter Afrique Center   (Kenya)

Author keywords

Equity; Health; Politics; Poverty; Water

Indexed keywords

TAP WATER; WELL WATER;

ARTICLE; KENYA; LAKE; PERSONAL NEEDS; POLITICS; POND; POVERTY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIVER; STREAM (RIVER); TANK; WATER AVAILABILITY; WATER SCARCITY; WATER SUPPLY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMAN RIGHTS; HUMANS; KENYA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLITICS; POVERTY AREAS; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SANITATION; URBAN HEALTH; WATER SUPPLY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79952458198     PISSN: 17441692     EISSN: 17441706     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17441692.2010.487494     Document Type: Article

References (37)

1. Aegisson, G., 2002. The great water robbery. London: One World Action Standpoint.
2. APHRC, 2002. Population and health dynamics in Nairobi informal settlements. Report of the Nairobi Cross-sectional Slums Survey (NCSS) 2000. Nairobi: APHRC, 256 p.
3. Bernard, C., 2002. Water supply innovations in Côte d'lvoire: how cross-subsidies help the poor. Nairobi: Water & Sanitation Program.
4. Blommaert, J. and Bulcaen, C., 2000. Critical discourse analysis. Annual Review of Anthropology, 29, 447-466.
5. Burra, S., 2005. Towards a pro-poor framework for slum upgrading in Mumbai, India. Environment and Urbanization, 17, 67-88.
6. COHRE, 2008. Endorsement of the eThekwini declaration and the right to water and sanitation at the 2008 African Union Heads of State and Government Summit. Available from: http://www.cohre.org/store/attachments/RWP%20-%20Kenya%20-%20EN.pdf [Accessed 16 December 2008].
7. Cudjoe, F. and Okonski, K., 2006. The reality of water provision in urban Africa [online]. In: K. Okonski, ed. The water revolution: practical solutions to water scarcity. Available from: http://ipn.lexi.net/images/uploaded [Accessed 18 August 2008].
8. Derman, B. and Ferguson, A., 2000. The value of water: political ecology and water reform in Southern Africa. Paper prepared for the Panel on Political Ecology for the annual meetings of the American Anthropological Association, 15-19 November. San Francisco, CA: BASIS, 19 p.
9. Foster, S. and Tuinhof, A., 2005. Sustainable groundwater management lessons from practice Kenya: the role of groundwater in the water-supply of greater Nairobi case profile collection number. Washington, DC: World Bank Global Water Partnership Associate Programme.
10. Gadgil, A., 1998. Drinking water in developing countries. Annual Review of Energy and the Environment, 23, 253-286.
11. Gemon, C., 2008. The triangle of mistrust: a utility's struggle to engage effectively in the informal settlements of Nairobi. Thesis (MA). Lund University.
12. Gerlach, E., 2008. Regulating water services for Nairobi's informal settlements. Water Policy, 10, 531-548.
13. Gleick, P.H., 1996. Basic water requirements for human activities: meeting basic needs. Water International, 21, 83-92.
14. Government of Kenya. The water act No. 8 of 2002, Public consultation, Ministry of Water and Irrigation.
15. Gulyani, S., Talukdar, D., and Kariuki, M., 2005. Water for the urban poor: water markets, household demand and service preferences in Kenya. Water supply and sanitation sector board. Discussion paper series no.5 January 2005.
16. Human Development Report, 2006. Beyond scarcity: power, poverty and the global water crisis. NewYork: UNDP.
17. IISD (International Institute for Sustainable Development), 2004. Water-L news [online]. Available from: http://www.iisd.ca/Water-l/Water-L_News_9.html [Accessed 19 October 2007].
18. K'akumu, O.A. and Appida, P.O., 2006. Privatisation of urban water service provision: the Kenyan experiment. Water Policy, 8, 313-324.
19. Katui-Katua, M. and McGranahan, G., 2002. Public private partnerships and the poor: small enterprises and water provision in Kibera, Nairobi. Loughborough: WEDC, Loughborough University.
20. Kenya Human Rights Commission, 2006. January to June 2006 Bi-Annual Human Rights Report Vol. 8: No. 1.
21. Kimani, E.W., Zulu, E.M., and Undie, C., 2005. Health and livelihood implications of marginalization of slum dwellers in provision of water and sanitation services in Nairobi city. Paper presented at the 4th International Conference on Urban Health, 26-28 October, Toronto, Canada.
22. Long, N., 2001. Development sociology actor perspectives. London and New York: Routledge.
23. Long, N., 2004. Contesting policy ideas from below. In: M. Bøås and D. McNeill, eds. Global institutions and development: framing the world? London and New York: Routledge.
24. Matrix Development Consultants, 1993. Nairobi's informal settlements: an inventory. A report prepared for USAID/REDSO/ESA. Nairobi.
25. Mehta, L., 2000. Water for the 21st century: challenges and misconceptions. IDS working paper 111.
26. Mehta, L., 2001. The manufacture of popular perceptions of scarcity: dams and water-related narratives in Gujarat, India. World Development, 29, 2025-2041.
27. Miles, M.B. and Huberman, A.M., 1994. Qualitative data analysis: an expanded sourcebook. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
28. Narayan, D. and Petesch, P., 2007. Agency, opportunity structure, and poverty escapes. In: D. Narayan and P. Petesch, eds. Moving out of poverty: volume 1 cross disciplinary perspectives on mobility. New York: Palgrave Macmillan and the World Bank, ch. 2, 1-44.
29. Ngigi, A. and Macharia, D.X., 2006. Kenya water sector policy overview paper. ENABLE, Energy for Water Health and Education, European Commission.
30. Opiyo, D. and Mathenge, O., 2008. Kenya: free water for slum residents [online]. Daily Nation, Nation Media Group. 16 April. Available from: http://www.irc.nl/page/40278 [Accessed 10 August 2009].
31. Purvis, T. and Hunt, A., 1993. A discourse, ideology, discourse, ideology, discourse, ideology. The British Journal of Sociology, 44, 473-499.
32. Thompson, J., et al., 2000.Water use in East Africa: waiting at the tap: changes in urban water use in East Africa over three decades. Environment and Urbanization, 12, 37-52.
33. Undie, C., John-Langba, J., and Kimani, E.W., 2006. The place of cool water. Wagadu, 3, 40-60.
34. UNDP, 2008. Fighting climate change: human solidarity in a divided world. Human Development Report 2007/2008. New York: UNDP.
35. UN HABITAT, 2003. The challenges of slums: global report on human settlements. London: Earthscan Publications Ltd.
36. UN IRIN, 2007. Kenya: the fight for water-a valuable slum commodity [online]. United Nations, Integrated Regional Information Networks, 17 August. Available from: http://www.irinnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportId=73718 [Accessed 17 March 2008].
37. UN-WATER, 2006. Coping with water scarcity: a strategic issue and priority for system-wide action [online]. Rome: UNWATER. Available from: http://www.unwater.org/downloads/waterscarcity.pdf [Accessed 19 August 2008].