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Rural water tenure in East Africa: a comparative study of legal regimes and community responses to changing tenure patterns in Tanzania and Kenya

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By David Nilsson, Ezekiel Nyangeri Nyanchaga (samez@wananchi.com, david.nilsson@infra.kth.se) - Royal Institute of Technology, University of Nairobi

This paper looks at the water policy of Tanzania, and makes comparisons with the situation in Kenya. It focuses especially on recent attempts to move towards a participatory, demand-management approach to rural water supply. This focus on rural water availability is motivated by the fact that approximately 80% of the population of Africa is found in rural areas, and only about 37% of these people have access to 'safe' water sources.

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