Scandinavian Working Papers in Economics
EfD Discussion Paper,
Environment for Development, University of Gothenburg
No 20-6: A Decision Support Tool for Rural Water Supply Planning
Joseph Cook (), Jake Wagner () and Gunnar Newell
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Joseph Cook: Washington State University, Postal: School of Economic Sciences, Washington State University, Pullman, Washington
Jake Wagner: Washington State University, Postal: School of Economic Sciences, Washington State University, Pullman, Washington
Gunnar Newell: Washington State University, Postal: School of Economic Sciences, Washington State University, Pullman, Washington
Abstract: Over a dozen studies have examined how households who travel to collect water (about one quarter of humanity) make choices about where and how much to collect. There is little evidence, however, that these studies have informed rural water supply planning in anything but a qualitative way. In this note, we describe a new web-based decision support tool that planners or community members can use to simulate scenarios such as (1) price, quality, or placement changes of existing sources, (2) the closure of an existing source, or (3) the addition of a new source. We describe the analytical structure of the model and then demonstrate its possibilities using data from a recent study in rural Meru County, Kenya. We discuss some limits of the current model, and encourage readers and practitioners to explore it and suggest ways in which it could be improved or used most effectively.
Keywords: rural water supply; decision support; development economics; water supply engineering
Language: English
20 pages, April 2, 2020
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