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Elizabeth F Vicario1, Ebenezer F Amankwaa2, Kebreab Ghebremichael3
1Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, United States.
Water research
|February 20, 2025
概括
全球南方城市的水盗是受公用事业决策所驱动的,而不仅仅是需求. 减少供应以应对水损失可以通过破坏合法供应商来加剧盗窃行为. 解决方案包括社区公用事业伙伴关系.
科学领域:
- 水资源管理水资源的管理.
- 城市规划是城市规划.
- 发展研究研究发展研究.
背景情况:
- 到2030年实现全民安全管理的饮用水的全球进展不足.
- 全球南方的城市水利设施面临着满足不断增长的需求和高非收入水损失的挑战.
- 商业用水损失的原因,特别是盗窃,仍未得到充分研究.
研究的目的:
- 检查城市用水设施决策和非正式定居点的水盗行为之间的因果关系.
- 了解公用事业战略如何影响有限的正式连接的地区的商业水损失.
主要方法:
- 采用了协作式系统思维方法.
- 通过直接参与利益相关者和收集来自加纳阿克拉100多名参与者的数据,开发了一个因果循环图.
- 对影响非收入水损失的原型模式的分析.
主要成果:
- 确定了导致非收入水损失的三个模式:增长的局限性,反的修复和成功的成功.
- 公共事业的决定,比如减少管道供水以制损失,可以无意中促进盗窃.
- 供应减少影响了合法供应商,使盗窃更加普遍,并破坏了可行的业务.
结论:
- 非正式定居点的水盗与低估水价,执法不力,服务期望低等有关.
- 建议包括转移系统目标和实施结构性变化:将供应商销售与公用事业收入和社区基金与基础设施投资联系起来.
- 公用事业公司和非正式供应商之间的合作协议可以改善服务,支持合法的企业,并减少水损失,而无需昂贵的计量.
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