Water and Sanitation in Africa

This blog will be focusing on social inequalities - the idea sparked when I was exploring the current situation of water and sanitation in Africa. I will be drawing on several examples in order to illustrate the huge gaps in the accessibility to clean water and improved sanitation between poor people and the middle class. To do so, I am going to start this blog by talking about the consequences of the absence of basic sanitation, followed by what the differences are between different groups of people in terms of the accessibility to clean water supplies and hygiene facilities. Fig.1: Water should be the human right for all Buea is a small town in Cameroon, which could largely represent water demands and supplies in Africa ( Adamu and Ndi, 2018 ). It is observed that, the deficit of water left by the national monopoly of water treatment company is filled by a range of sources such as hand-pumped well, boreholes, streams, springs, and rivers ( Adamu and Ndi, 2018 ). However, these unprot...

 Water and Sanitation in Africa: A Starting Point My first blog and the idea of writing blogs under the theme of water and sanitation in Africa was inspired by the article produced by Colin McFarlane and Jonathan Silver (2016) where I first encountered the socio-political complexity and inequality of sanitation delivery problems in the Cape Town. That sparked my interest in exploring further in water scarcity and its consequent, multiple effects. Sanitation is the safe disposal of human waste (McFarlane and Silver, 2016) . It builds the foundation of having healthy lives for people, while it is not accessible to everyone in some areas in the world or someone in parts of a city. Its importance and complexity pushed me to write about the topic. Before officially writing about water and sanitation in Africa, I came across the article 'Write about Africa' by Wainaina (2016) , and I recognised several difficulties in writing my blogs under this theme. Firstly, as suggested by Waina...