TOPIC
Evaluating waterpoint sustainability
An assessment of the Impact of
Financial Performance and Operational
Sustainability of Rural Water Piped
Systems: Evidence from the Upper West
Region
KEY PAPERS AUTHOR
and access implications of revenue Foster, T., & Hope, R. (2017).
collection approaches in rural Kenya
The effectiveness of the local Braimah, I., Amponsah, O., &
management systems of rural water Asibey, M. O. (2016).
facilities for sustainable service
delivery: a case study
of the Sekyere East District, Ghana
Financial and operational Mwagomba, P., & Tilley, E.
sustainability of a gravity-fed rural (2021).
piped water supply system
in Malawi
Tracking user satisfaction of rural Kumasi, T. C., & Agbemor, B. D.
water services (2018).
in Northern Ghana
Problem Statement
Foster and Hope (2017) carried a research on waterpoint sustainability
and access implications of revenue collection approaches in Kenya.
According to them, there is no consensus on the optimal revenue
collection approach from financial, operational and safe drinking water
access perspectives and communities independently adopt a diverse rang
of strategies. They also argued in support of community-based financing
of rural water, stressing governments and donors are ill-equipped to
reliably finance recurrent water services cost.
In Ghana, Braimah, I., Amponsah, O., & Asibey, M. O. (2016) analysed
the effectiveness of the local management systems of rural water
facilities for sustainable service delivery. According to their analysis, the
community management module was ineffective in the light of MDGS.
However, the community management approached which existed for
decades has become unpopular in recent times evidenced from the
numerous breakdown of the water facilities
Again, emphasis was placed on waterpoint boreholes. In the case of
Ghana, there are over 1,000 rural water piped systems under difference
management. The Piped Water system serve large size of the Ghanaian
population, where water is brought to the door-step of household in line
with the SDG 6.
Moreover, there is a policy on revenue collection in Ghana with the reforms
in the rural water-sub sector by the Community Water and Sanitation.
Problem statement Cont.
Unsustainable approaches or systems for managing water facilities lead
to their breakdown (Mahmud et al. 2007; Carter and Danert 2003).
Communities, then relapse to the previous situation of using water from
unsafe sources.
Sound financial performance is crucial for the survival and
sustainability of every organization, be it public or private.
Research objectives
General: To examine the financial performance and Operational
Sustainability of Rural Water Piped Systems.
Specific:
1. To examine financial performance of rural water piped systems
2. To assess investments in rural water piped systems infrastructure
3. To link financial performance and rural water piped system
infrastructure investment to sustainability
4. To assess the operational sustainability of rural water piped systems
Conceptual framework

Financial performance of
rural water piped systems

Operational performance Sustainability of rural piped

Water systems

Investment in
infrastructure