The implication of water accessibility challenges to urban water governance in Morogoro municipality, Tanzania
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2024-03-13
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Elsevier
Abstract
This study investigates water accessibility challenges in urban and peri-urban areas and its
implication to urban water governance in Morogoro Municipality, Tanzania. A cross-sectional
research design was adopted using a survey of 90 randomly selected households. The key
informant interview was used to collect key information. Quantitative data were analyzed using
descriptive statistics. The Mann-Whitney U Test was employed to establish the extent to which
factors affected water accessibility differently in urban and peri-urban areas. Content analysis was
used to analyse qualitative information. Approximately 69% of the respondents accessed water
from public piped water system. Some accessed water from public water taps while others used
private boreholes and tank carts. Water supply, more so in peri-urban areas, was not reliable. In
addition, water leakage, cost of connecting to the public piped water system, cost for constructing
a borehole, climatic and environmental factors piled up into challenges of water accessibility
suggesting poor urban water governance. The Mann-Whitney U Test showed that households in
peri-urban areas were significantly affected by the challenges compared to households in urban
areas at 5% level of significance where p = 0.000. The study concludes presence of challenges in
water access due to multiple factors with implications on urban water governance. Therefore,
urban water governance should be improved to heighten water accessibility. Further studies
should focus on developing an urban water governance framework in Tanzania.
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Water accessibility, Urban, Peri-urban, Water governance Morogoro municipality, Morogoro municipality
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https://doi.org/10.1016/j.heliyon.2024.e28194 Received 10 October 2023; Received in revised form 2 March 2024; Accepted 13 March 2024 Available online 17 March 2024 2405-8440/© 2024 The Author. Published by Elsevier Ltd. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).