Abstract

Like many low-income countries, Uganda is struggling to provide sanitation to its inhabitants. Meeting the Sustainable Development Goal related to sanitation (SDG6) will require major investments in sanitation. This study uses the concept of service regimes to analyze existing sanitation infrastructure and services and their respective costs. The service regimes investigated are the sewage regime and the fecal sludge (FS) regime. The results show that approximately 56% of the fecal flow in Kampala is estimated as 'safely managed'. The results also show that the annual per capita costs for the sewage regime (USD 186) are more than 13-fold those for the FS regime (USD 14). Additionally, there are large differences in subsidies between the regimes. When allocating public funds, decision-makers are advised to consider (i) number of customers within regimes, (ii) total capital and operating costs of services, (iii) cost allocation between stakeholders, and (iv) infrastructure performance.

Keywords

Annualized costs; fecal sludge management (FSM); life-cycle costs; service chain; sewage; treatment

Published in

Urban Water Journal
2019, Volume: 16, number: 8, pages: 584-593

SLU Authors

• Mcconville, Jennifer

  • Department of Energy and Technology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
    

Sustainable Development Goals

Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all
Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the global partnership for sustainable development


UKÄ Subject classification

Water Engineering


Publication identifier

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/1573062X.2019.1700290

Permanent link to this page (URI)

https://res.slu.se/id/publ/103625