Denying access to water? Moral values and commercialization policies in Khartoum governmental water management

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Beckedorf, Anne-Sophie:
Denying access to water? Moral values and commercialization policies in Khartoum governmental water management.
Bayreuth , 2012 . - 12 S. S.

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Abstract

This contribution draws on empirical fieldwork carried out in Khartoum/Sudan in 2009/2010 in order to examine the role of value systems in recent commercialization policies of Khartoum governmental water management. The first section provides background information about the current water supply system in Khartoum, which is a necessary precondition to understand current reform processes. The second section singles out three major aspects of commercialization policies and their contestations in greater detail: increases in water prices, increases in water cuts in case of unpaid water bills, and installations of prepaid water meters. The third section summarizes these contestations and argues that value systems are one major reason why current reform processes are not implemented in the way they were perceived.