Procuring Water:Foreign Aid and Rural Water Supply in Nepal
Sharma, Sudhindra (2001)
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Sharma, Sudhindra
Nepal Water Conservation Foundation
2001
Sosiologia - Sociology
Yhteiskuntatieteellinen tiedekunta - Faculty of Social Sciences
Väitöspäivä
2001-06-09Tiivistelmä
Water provisioning has become a major area of intervention by the modern state in developing countries. But, even before the modern state began engaging in water supply, people had been obtaining and managing water. What then is the provision of water (khane paani in Nepali) by the state all about? Though the official reason for involvement in water supply and sanitation is to ensure ´adequate water supply and sanitation coverage and service levels ´the study points out that for local people in the hills and the Tarai, the rationale for external support is different from established convention.
Traversing through the history of water supply and sanitation in Nepal with the Finn-supported Rural Water Supply and Sanitation Project and examining oral and written traditions on water, the study concludes that khane paani is as much about improving the conditions of life among the poor as about being modern. Piped water or tube-well brought with the help of the government, in turn made possible by foreign aid, is a symbol through which they posit themselves higher in the ' development' hierarchy. In the process, the rural communities increasingly come to participate in the global discourse on water, and share in the global values, preferences and ways of dealing with water.
Traversing through the history of water supply and sanitation in Nepal with the Finn-supported Rural Water Supply and Sanitation Project and examining oral and written traditions on water, the study concludes that khane paani is as much about improving the conditions of life among the poor as about being modern. Piped water or tube-well brought with the help of the government, in turn made possible by foreign aid, is a symbol through which they posit themselves higher in the ' development' hierarchy. In the process, the rural communities increasingly come to participate in the global discourse on water, and share in the global values, preferences and ways of dealing with water.
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