Back to Search
Start Over
Water-poverty relationships in the coastal town of Mbour (Senegal): Relevance of GIS for decision support
- Source :
- International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation, International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation, Elsevier, 2012, 14 (1), pp.33-39. ⟨10.1016/j.jag.2011.08.001⟩, International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation, 2012, 14 (1), pp.33-39. ⟨10.1016/j.jag.2011.08.001⟩
- Publication Year :
- 2012
- Publisher :
- HAL CCSD, 2012.
-
Abstract
- International audience; Coastal area is always a zone with complex problems. Due to the attraction they exert, are facing many social problems. Therefore, a coastal city is usually a city with problems. Its extension, caused by the influx of people from different backgrounds, creates an increased demand for services. One of the problems frequently encountered, especially in Senegal, is access to water. The problem of access to water is poorly treated, without being correlated with the urban evolution, i.e. with increasing population and demand growth. The water resource is facing numerous complications such as the lack of integrated management, integration issues at the governance level, where the local factor is often forgotten. The town of Mbour, object of our study, does not come out of that lot, being an attractive coastal city, from an African country. This indicates the need for an integrated management oriented from local to a global basis and not vice versa. The study presented in this paper indicates that a large proportion of the population has not access to a verified drinking water system and uses water from wells or standpipes. Half of the surveyed population (50%) has no access to a water supply system. The water poverty map of the town overlaps with that of the general poverty excepting few neighborhoods. This means that even areas that are not affected by poverty have a very low or poor access to water, which so far remains the perverse effect of the reform of the Senegalese water sector in 1995.
- Subjects :
- Decision support system
Resource (biology)
Population
0211 other engineering and technologies
Water supply
02 engineering and technology
010501 environmental sciences
Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law
Social issues
01 natural sciences
Coastline
[SHS]Humanities and Social Sciences
Environmental protection
Sustainable development
11. Sustainability
Computers in Earth Sciences
education
Environmental planning
Poverty
Integrated management
0105 earth and related environmental sciences
Earth-Surface Processes
Global and Planetary Change
education.field_of_study
business.industry
Fresh water
Corporate governance
1. No poverty
021107 urban & regional planning
Gis
6. Clean water
Geography
business
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 03032434 and 15698432
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation, International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation, Elsevier, 2012, 14 (1), pp.33-39. ⟨10.1016/j.jag.2011.08.001⟩, International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation, 2012, 14 (1), pp.33-39. ⟨10.1016/j.jag.2011.08.001⟩
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....abcc297e70f0aebadb4997a7b55b27b7