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World Bank - Appropriate Technology for Water Supply and Sanitation: A summary of technical and economic options
Abstract
Over the past decade the focus of development planners has broadened
from an overriding concern with economic growth to a parallel concern with
the distribution of the benefits made possible by that growth. In his address
to the Board of Governors of the World Bank at the 1978 Annual Meeting,
Mr. McNamara stated that, in order to achieve the twin objectives of growth
and equity, countries must modify the pattern of growth so as to raise the
productivity of the poor, and also improve the access of the poor to essential
public services.
Among these essential public services are water supply and waste
disposal. Few other services contribute as much to an improvement in health
and living standards as the. provision of an adequate supply of safe water and
the sanitary disposal of waste. It has become apparent, however, that projects
have to be specifically designed to reach the urban and rural poor in order to
provide them with services that they can afford and that meet their needs.
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