SOLUTIONS TO ACCESS SAFE AND DRINKING WATER IN AFRICA Edited by Mammo Muchie & Angathevar Baskaran AFRICA WORLD PRESS www.africaworldpressbooks.com MUCHIE & BASKARAN Political Economy, Innovation & Environment Studies/AFRICA The contributions in this book explore the issue of water from various per- spectives using a combination of primary and secondary data to generate new and original insights to advance knowledge related on how clean water and sanitation can be accessible to all the people in Africa. The move from MDGs to SDGs will no doubt make a big difference and there is a need to do research on how clean water and sanitation can be made accessible to all the people in Africa. We believe this book makes a critical contribution to the knowledge and understanding of the challenges faced by African countries regarding clean water and sanitation. “Access to clean and safe drinking water is a major challenge across African countries. In sub-Saharan Africa, over 300 million people are without access to reliable drinking water sources and this is causing water-borne diseases and time loss collecting water which are affecting people’s ability to contrib- ute to the economic development fully, especially the women. This book makes a valuable contribution to understand this challenge and is a welcome addition to research in this area”. --Professor Banji Oyelaran-Oyeyinka, Director, Monitoring & Research Division (MRD), UN-HABITAT “A number of countries in Africa still face huge challenges in attempting to achieve the United Nations water-related Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) due to weakness in effectively developing and managing their water resources sustainably. The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) makes countries particularly in Africa to continue their focus on access to clean and safe water. This book is an important contribution towards understanding the critical problems faced by African countries and identifying possible pol- icy solutions”. --Professor Kwesi Prah, Director of CASAS, Cape Town, South Africa Mammo Muchie is a DST/NRF Research Professor in Science, Technolo- gy and Innovation for Development at Tshwane University of Technology (TUT) in Pretoria, South Africa. He is also NRF rated Research Professor and member of the African Academy of Sciences and the South African Academy of Sciences. Angathevar Baskaran is an Associate Professor at the Department of De- velopment Studies, FEA, University of Malaya, Malaysia & Senior Research Associate, SHARChI (Innovation and Development), Tshwane University of Technology, Pretoria, South Africa. SOLUTIONS TO ACCESS SAFE AND DRINKING WATER IN AFRICA Safe and Drinking Water-Cover.indd 1 3/1/2017 4:44:33 PM