都市住民の生活用水利用と水道サービスの評価 : 中国内蒙古自治区烏蘭察布市隻寧区の事例調査

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This paper summarizes the main findings from a questionnaire survey, undertaken in Jining, Wulanchabu, Inner Mongolia, China in August 2006, with a view to obtaining a better understanding of the citizens' water use practices and perceptions. Under the reform and open-door policy, Chinese municipal water utilities are required to transform themselves to become more responsive to the needs and requirements of household water users. Thus the basic premise of the study is that an inventory and analysis of household water use and consumption patterns is the first step towards establishing a new style of demand-driven urban water supply management. With a total of 247 sample households in Jining, this empirical study has also analyzed the citizens' assessment of water supply services. Key policy implications derived from the study are concerned with (a) the need to broaden the scope of municipal water utility planning ; and (b) the need for devising a water pricing scheme capable of ensuring equitable access to water while promoting financially sound management of municipal water utilities.
2007-03-16