| Titre | La commercialisation du service d'eau potable à Windhoek (Namibie) : inégalités urbaines et logiques marchandes | |
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| Auteur | Sylvy Jaglin | |
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Revue | Flux |
| Numéro | no 30, octobre-décembre 1997 | |
| Page | 16-29 | |
| Résumé anglais |
The commercialization of the Namibian Department of Water Affairs is an institutional answer to a double problem: the shortage of both water and public funds in the face of increasing urban demand. This practice aims at bringing the legal statutes and the practices of bulk water supply management into compliance with the commercial principles of this sector of activity. However, in a context characterized by increasing and evolving post-apartheid intra-urban inequalities, in which a small Black elite does not yet possess the technical control of the major urban services, combined with disparities in the implementation process of recent decentralization, this institutional reform seems inadequate to contend with two sizeable challenges: managing water shortage as well as sharing the resource among users in a sustainable and thrifty way; providing the urban poor with an adequate supply for which the technical and financial arrangements remain to be invented. Source : Éditeur (via Persée) |
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| Article en ligne | http://www.persee.fr/web/revues/home/prescript/article/flux_1154-2721_1997_num_13_30_1212 |
