Persistent Water Shortage in Kigali City: Who are the Most Affected?

Felix Rubogora
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Kigali, the capital city of Rwanda has been demographically growing and is expected to double from 1.13 million of population in 2012 to two million by 2020. Both population growth and city surface expansion have created a burden that the existing basic infrastructures can’t sustain. The question is how such a huge burden is shared between those who are better-off economically and the poorer ones. In this paper, the issue was examined in the sense to investigate whether the shortage makes water expensive to the extent that poorer families get hard to afford it? Findings have shown that the poorer families are the most affected since they have limited financial means to afford a high cost to cover such a basic daily need. Most of them live in old suburbs whereby water pipes’ network does not ease water flow-in because they are old or damaged. They are also far from putting in place support equipments such as tanks to store water when it comes in the taps. Beyond all those cases, water becomes a very expensive product which they can’t afford given the minimum wages of a Rwandan laborer in Kigali.
基加利市持续缺水:谁受影响最大?
卢旺达首都基加利的人口一直在增长,预计到2020年,基加利的人口将从2012年的113万增加一倍,达到200万。人口增长和城市地表扩张都造成了现有基础设施无法承受的负担。问题是,如此巨大的负担如何在经济上较富裕的人和较贫穷的人之间分担。在本文中,这个问题是在调查短缺是否使水昂贵到较贫穷的家庭难以负担的程度的意义上进行研究的。调查结果表明,较贫穷的家庭受到的影响最大,因为他们的经济能力有限,无法支付支付这种基本日常需求的高昂费用。他们中的大多数人住在旧的郊区,那里的水管网络不能缓解水的流入,因为它们是旧的或损坏的。他们还远远没有将诸如水箱之类的支持设备安装到位,以便在水进入水龙头时储存水。除此之外,水成为一种非常昂贵的产品,考虑到基加利卢旺达工人的最低工资,他们负担不起。
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