Determinants of water accessibility in Kenya
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Date
2005-09Author
Ochieng, Ombok M
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The study examines the determinants of safe water accessibility in Kenya. Cross sectional
data analysis technique is used with a sample of 41 districts for the year 2000. The safe
water access model is estimated by the OLS method. Results show that safe water
accessibility is explained by water infrastructure, distance to water source and water
morbidity. The findings indicate that a 10% increase in water infrastructure results in a
10.1% increase in safe water access; a 1% decrease in time taken to fetch water results to
a 0.017% increase in safe water access and; a 1% fall in water morbidity implies a
0.038% rise in safe water access. Strikingly, water tariff effect on safe water necessibility
result was revealed to be insignificant. Therefore, to increase safe water accessibility.
efforts must be made to deal with non-operational water infrastructure. non-maintained
water infrastructure problems and water quality. Current efforts by the government and
individual organizations to improve and construct new water infrastructure need to be
encouraged.
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Masters thesis University of Nairobi 2005Publisher
University of Nairobi Department of Economics
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Research paper submitted to economics department. university of Nairobi in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of master or arts economic policy and management