The Impact of a New Piped Water System on the Well-being of Urban Residents: A Case Study in the City of Mandalay, Myanmar
Year: 2022
Type: dissertation
Abstract: The Impact of a New Piped Water System on the Well-being of Urban Residents: A Case Study in the City of Mandalay, Myanmar Access to safe water is a basic needs for all people, which is considered as one of the important elements of well-being of human beings.In 2015, the international communities set the SDGs' goal 6 to ensure access to water and sanitation for all.However, six years after, the number of urban residents without safe drinking water has even nearly doubled because of the population concentration in the cities.The rapid growth of urban population has increased the demand for water and the risk of water scarcity in many low-and middle-income countries.Under such circumstances, constructing a piped water supply system has been regarded as a solution to sustainably provide safe drinking water for urban residents.Yet, the installation of a piped water system requires a large financial investment.The authorities or water supply entities need to make the investment decision with careful planning and assessment on the returns to the investment.Despite the importance of academic research, empirical evidence on what would be brought by the installation of a new piped water system for urban residents have been scarce.Hence, the main objective of this research is to provide a new piece of evidence on the impact of a new piped water system on the well-being of urban residents.This research focuses on a piped water project (hereafter the Project) in urban area of Mandalay city, Myanmar.In the city of Mandalay, local authority (Mandalay City Development Committee: hereafter MCDC) had planned to expand the coverage area of the piped water system in Pyi Gyi Tagon township, located in the southern part of the city, to satisfy the increasing demand for safe water.While the households' connection rate of the piped water system in the northern townships of the city was about 80
Authors: 浅岡, 浩章, アサオカ, ヒロアキ, Asaoka, Hiroaki
Language: English
Subfield: Water Science and Technology
Field: Environmental Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W7038361440