Abstract
Water and sanitation are taken at the heart of achieving a number of goals and critical targets of sustainable development goals. But achieving sustained water and sanitation service in a rural context is problematic from the viewpoint of technical, financial, environmental, and social, and governance aspects of functionality. Therefore, good governance in the operation and management of rural water and sanitation schemes are a key component to determine the other aspects of functioning and longer-term sustainability. The study sees the working of five indicators of functionality, five layers of priority ranking indicators, four service indicators of quantity, accessibility, reliability, and quality (QARQ), and ten indicators of assessing governance level sustainability. In all aspects of assessment, most RWSS found to stand at the level of partial sustainability. This urged for giving higher priority to upgrading such schemes in the status of full sustainability.
Highlights
AttributesSustainability in Priority Ranking Un-Partially Sustainable sustainable Sustainable Total %N% Toward Sustainability Survey Districts Palpa Nawalparasi Geographic Area Tarai
It is obvious to conclude that scheme’s functionality status in terms of the proportion of the working taps to the total taps constructed at the beginning of the scheme, the number of households sharing a functional tap, and months of water availability in the taps is highly sustainable
From the point of view of quantity, accessibility, reliability, and quality aspects of service level, the water service of Rural Water Supply and Sanitation Schemes (RWSS) are at an intermediate level in the case of quality and accessibility components; it is at a satisfactory level in the case of proportion to getting high standard quantity service and reliability services
Summary
Nations Environment Programme(UNEP) defines sustainable development as ‘development that ensures that the use of resources and the environment today does not compromise their use in the future’. WASH at the Heart of MDGs and SDGs The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) accorded the increasing access to domestic water supply and sanitation services as catalytic elements to fight poverty and hunger, safeguard human health, reduce child mortality, promote gender equality, and manage and protect natural resources. The goal is based on extensive linking of water supply and sanitation management to improved health, family wellbeing, gender equality, child survival, and economic productivity Achievement of this goal is based on major changes in existing water management - to harmonise governance, data collection and sharing policies, and the use of models and tools for long-term sustainability.
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