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标题：Water Supply or ‘Beautiful Latrines’? Microcredit for Rural Water Supply and Sanitation in the Mekong Delta, Vietnam
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作者：Nadine Reis ; Peter P. Mollinga
期刊名称：ASEAS - Austrian Journal of South-East Asian Studies/Österreichische Zeitschrift für Südostasienwissenschaften
印刷版ISSN：1999-2521
电子版ISSN：1999-253X
出版年度：2012
卷号：5
期号：1
DOI：10.4232/10.ASEAS-5.1-2
出版社：Society for South East Asian Studies/Gesellschaft für Südostasienwissenschaften
摘要：Around half of the Mekong Delta's rural population lacks year-round access to clean water. In combi-nation with inadequate hygiene and poor sanitation this creates a high risk of diseases. Microcredit schemes are a popular element in addressing such problems on the global policy level. The present paper analyses the contradictory results of such a microcredit programme for rural water supply and sanitation in the context of the Mekong Delta, Vietnam, through a qualitative study primarily based on semi-structured interviews in rural communes of Can Tho City. We come to the conclusion that the programme has a positive e. ect regarding the safer disposal of human excreta as well as surface water quality, but a marginal impact on poverty reduction as it only reaches better-o. households already having access to clean water. The paper shows how the outcome of rural water supply and sanitation policies are strongly in. uenced by the lo cal ecological, technological, and social settings, in particular by stakeholders' interests. The authors challenge the assumption that water supply and sanitation should be integrated into the same policy in all circumstances
关键词：Water; Sanitation; Microcredit; Mekong Delta; Vietnam