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Video 1.3: Forecasts of Coverage
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Water Supply and Sanitation Policy in Developing Countries Part 1: Understanding Complex Problems
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Introducing Key Facts about Water and Sanitation Services
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Prof Dale WhittingtonProfessor
Manchester Business School
Dr Duncan ThomasLecturer
Alliance Manchester Business School
In this video, I want to explore the question of where coverage is headed.
In terms of our conceptual framework, I want to examine the dynamic baseline.
What do we think will happen in the water
and sanitation sector if current population and economic trends continue?
The forecasts I'm going to show you are joint work with
Marc Jeuland and several other of my colleagues at UNC.
The reading for this lesson, is just been
published in POLS1 and you can access it there.
We're going to be looking at three questions.
First, how are the economic losses associated with water and sanitation,
have they changed at the global level from 1900 to 2050?
Are things getting better or are they getting worse?
Will economic growth solve WASH problems in the near or medium term?
And third, where should donors concentrate their efforts in this sector
given where coverage is headed, in terms of economic growth in population?
We use a simulation model to forecast coverage in the years ahead.
We need some kind of technique to do this.
And what we're going to use is a three equation simulation model.
In the first equation, piped water coverage is a function of national income.
In the second equation, wash related mortality is a function
of piped coverage, and in the third equation, we try to
estimate economic losses as a function of deaths, illnesses, and other costs
that households incur, from having poor water and sanitation conditions.
It's actually rather surprising, that this hasn't been done before.
But, what I'm going to to show you then, is a picture of where the
world's headed in terms of water and
sanitation coverage, and where problems will remain.
The data we're going to use to estimate
this simulation model are at the country level.
They're country level averages.
Now there are problems with using country
level averages, particularly for big countries like
China and India, which households are going to
have many different conditions in modern sanitation.
But, we're going to take an average of those conditions, for the whole country.
We also have con, variables for coverage, for piped water, and
sanitation services, from the JMP, from 1990 to 2008.
And, we have WASH-related mortality statistics
from 2004, from the World Health Organization.
In addition to these country level data we also are going to
use data on urbanization, world regions,
literacy, fertility, governance and some time trends.
We're also going to look to the literature to help us understand
the relationship between income and the value of a statistical life.
We need to do this in order to estimate economic losses associated
with poor water and sanitation conditions today and then on into the future.
So first I want to give you an overview
of some of the global data about these relationships.
So in this slide you see that there's a clear association
between development, or GDP per capita, and access to piped water supply.
As GDP per capita goes up, access to piped water
supply and coverage of piped water supply goes up dramatically.
This next slide shows you that there's a clear
association between WASH-related mortality and access to piped water supply.
Now it's important to think a bit about causal relationships
here, and we're not making any causal claims in this modeling.
In other words, we're only talking about an association between these variables.
Certainly the causation runs in both directions.
As people get richer, they have more money
to spend on piped water and sewer services.
On the other hand, as health gets better and they
have piped water and sanitation
conditions, this also supports economic growth.
So there's a dual relation that we're not trying to tease out in this model.
I'm going to show you the results of
the coverage forecast first for four countries.
Brazil, China, India, and Nigeria.
These are some of the largest countries, in terms of population in the developing
world, and some of the most interesting in terms of coverage statistics.
This next slide shows pipped water coverage, again in China,
India, Brazil and Nigeria from 1950 to 2050.
For a 100 year period, the shaded area in this
graph in the middle shows you where we have data.
So before 1990, we're actually backcasting coverage, and
then after 2010 we're forecasting coverage into the future.
These forecasts show that China and Brazil have been moving
to very high levels of coverage as economic growth proceeds.
This has happened over the last 20 years.
India and Nigeria show much lower levels of piped water
coverage, but India shows increasing coverage over the next few decades.
Nigeria looks much worse.
Again, this is coverage, and part of the reason that
Nigeria looks worse is that population is growing so rapidly.
So as, even though maybe more and more people are getting piped
water coverage, it's just barely keeping up in Nigeria with population growth.
This next slide shows WASH-related mortality
in China, India, Brazil, and Nigeria.
So what we've done here in this simulation is to translate
these forecasts of coverage into the, forecast of WASH-related mortality rates.
And in this next slide I'll show you WASH-related deaths.
So this slide shows WASH-related mortality rates.
And you can see in Brazil and
China WASH-related mortality has actually collapsed already.
WASH mortality rates in India are above
China and Brazil, but they're trending down, and
we expect from our forecast that they will
get, very low over the next couple decades.
Nigeria on the other hand, mortality rates are much higher.
They are trending down over the next few decades, but
they still remain in our forecast at quite high levels.
This next slide shows total WASH-related deaths, and which these are number
of people dying from WASH-related diseases in these four countries.
These are backcasts to 1900, and then forecasts from 1910 to 2050.
So as you can see the total number
of deaths in China probably peaked around 1980.
And these have essentially disappeared.
Similarly the number of WASH-related deaths in Brazil is now very low.
The number of deaths in India is much higher, but
is also trending strongly down over the next couple decades.
In Nigeria however the number of WASH-related
deaths, is actually forecasted to rise though the
forecast period, due to high population growth in
the low baseline levels of piped water coverage.
This next slide shows you total economic
losses in China, India, Brazil, and Nigeria.
Our estimates of total economic losses in monetary terms show even more dramatic
declines in China and India, and more dramatic increases in Nigeria.
The global projections by region are in your reading.
And I'm not going to go over them here, but they do look
similar to the projections for these four large countries in the developing world.
Let me conclude our discussion of coverage forecast with three observations.
First, economic growth will probably solve water and sanitation problems
in many parts of the world over the next couple decades.
For example, in East Asia, the East
Pacific, the Middle East and Latin America.
Second, the global community, international donors, and
NGOs should probably focus their efforts on
Sub-Saharan Africa and the rural parts of South Asia, such as the Ganges plain.
Third, there's nothing inevitable about these forecasts.
Policy interventions and deliberate actions can change them.
These are just trends in the dynamic baseline.
They're not inevitable.
So to wrap up this week, we've learned about
the spatial distribution of wash coverage statistics around the world.
And that they're big differences in WASH coverage between
urban and rural areas, and different regions in the world.
Next week we're going to continue our discussion
of the dynamic baseline and status quo
conditions by looking at water vending, and
corruption issues in the water and sanitation sector.
Don't forget to watch the video with Clarissa Brocklehurst
about the JMP coverage statistics, and how these were collected.
Thank you for watching the video this week.
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