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Title: | How Important is Improved Water Infrastructure to Microenterprises? Evidence from Uganda |
Authors: | Davis, Jennifer Kang, Alice Vincent, Jeffrey Whittington, Dale |
Year: | 2001 |
Periodical: | World Development |
Volume: | 29 |
Issue: | 10 |
Period: | October |
Pages: | 1753-1767 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Uganda |
Subjects: | small enterprises water supply Agriculture, Natural Resources and the Environment Development and Technology Economics and Trade |
External link: | https://doi.org/10.1016/S0305-750X(01)00059-6 |
Abstract: | This paper examines the importance of improved water supply infrastructure to micro and small enterprises (MSEs). The paper is based on data from surveys of MSE owners and managers in two small market towns in Uganda - Wobulenzi and Lugazi, where a natural experiment in water supply improvement occurred. The surveys were carried out in 1999. By interviewing MSE owners and managers in these towns and comparing their enterprises' water sources and water use, the authors found that improved water services are less important to MSEs than one might expect on the basis of studies of households in similar African towns. This is not to say that owners and managers of MSEs do not want improved water services. However, MSEs are not willing to pay as much for these services as are households, nor do they show as strong a preference for private water connections (as compared to public taps) as do households. These findings have important implications for the design of piped water systems and the pricing of water services in small market towns in developing countries. Bibliogr., notes, ref., sum. |