Govenance Systems And Sustainability Of Rural Deep Underground Water Sources Of Lwengo District In Uganda

Introduction

Water scarcity experience is severe in many of the emerging economies globally, with about 1.2 billion people, who do not have access to safe water. It is estimated that, more than 1 billion people who do not have access to safe drinking water and domestic use live in Africa and yet water is insurance to life (Heinrich Boll 2014) The effective Governance Systems and Sustainability of Rural Deep Underground Water Sources concept is crucial and calls for sense of citizen based participation in the management system. The inappropriate governance of underground water sources is attributed to failure of adopting community based participation approaches and practical models for effective management of water sources (Hacker, 2013a). Community involvement makes inhabitants accountable and promotes local development in form of popular representation in governance, empowerment and participation of local people in planning, decision-making and initiative water project implementation. It will also give an analysis on water users’ management committees’ functionality and impact of rules and regulations in respect to shade light on constraints that hinder effective governance and sustainability of the water sources. This chapter therefore, will present the background to the study, gives the statement of the problem, objectives of the study, the research questions, hypotheses, conceptual framework, study significance, justification and operational definitions of selected terms.