TITLE:
Policies for Sustainability of Water Services in Transitional Democracies
AUTHORS:
Joseph O. Obosi
KEYWORDS:
Sustainable Water Supply, Community Water Management, Public-Private Partnerships, Water Governance, Water Policy
JOURNAL NAME:
Open Journal of Political Science,
Vol.13 No.4,
October
26,
2023
ABSTRACT: The paper has interrogated various policies that
different countries have put in place to
mitigate sustainable water services thereby ensuring the achievement of universal and equitable access to safe and affordable
drinking water for all by 2030 in line with the United Nations’ Sustainable
Development Goal (SDG 6.1) targets. By using a comparative analysis of
institutional arrangements under the theoretical framework of New Public
Management, we assessed the main approaches that have directly or indirectly
been implemented by government in transition democracies and the results
realized. The paper has argued that the application of New Public Management
approaches has been responsible for the dynamism witnessed in water service policies
and the different results realized towards
sustainable water supply to the deserving population in transition
democracies.