This report discusses water resources development activities and problems associated with community water supply in developing countries.
Title | U.S. strategy needed for water supply assistence to developing countries : report to the Congress of the United States |
Publication Type | Miscellaneous |
Year of Publication | 1981 |
Authors | U.S. General Accounting Office -Washington, DC, US |
Pagination | ix, 66 p. : photogr. |
Date Published | 1981-08-01 |
Publisher | US General Accounting Office |
Place Published | Washington, DC, USA |
Keywords | evaluation, financing, funding agencies, idwssd, institutional development, maintenance, manpower development, policies, recommendations, rural areas, sanitation, sdipol, usa, water resources development, water supply |
Abstract | This report discusses water resources development activities and problems associated with community water supply in developing countries. It deals with the funding of water resources development and the USA strategy; the obstacles to achieving the goal of the UN International Drinking Water Supply and Sanitation Decade; the constraints to providing safe water and adequate sanitation; funding; institutional and manpower needs; the needs of rural areas; and maintenance problems. It recommends that the United States should exert more active leadership in influencing the allocation of available funds for, and in removing constraints to, water resources development. |