James Davis
ABSTRACT
This paper uses GPS loggers and interviews to measure the time taken to collect water in two Kenyan informal settlements. The time devoted to water collection is widely believed to prevent women and girls, who do most of this work, from undertaking more creative tasks, including income generation and education. We studied collection times in two settlements to compare Nyalenda in Kisumu, where the utility has introduced a new piped water system, with Kibera in Nairobi, where no such improvement has been made. In addition to the primary results of quantitative collections times, we discuss the use of GPS in this context and our findings that the two methods of measurement provide insights which neither would have provided alone.
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- Measuring water collection times in Kenyan informal settlements
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