Community-based monitoring to facilitate water management by local institutions in Costa Rica.

ABSTRACT: Water scarcity is a global problem that can be compounded by inefficient water management, including underinvestment in infrastructure, underpricing of water use, and underenforcement of user rules. Here, we explore whether these inefficiencies can be reduced in rural Costa Rica via an externally driven community monitoring program (i.e., a program initiated by an outside organization and run by citizens). The monitoring program aimed to reduce groundwater extraction from aquifers, as well as to improve water quality and user satisfaction, by supplying additional information about field conditions and additional scrutiny of user and management authority activities and by fostering citizen engagement in water management. Using a specially designed smartphone application (app) and WhatsApp,

SUBMITTER: Bernedo Del Carpio M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8307738 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature