Charging the non-networked: water pricing governance of the heterogeneous infrastructures beyond the utility network in Dar es Salaam

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dc.contributor.authorDakyaga, Francis
dc.contributor.authorSchramm, Sophie
dc.contributor.authorLupala, John M.
dc.contributor.authorMagembe-Mushi, Dawah Lulu
dc.date.accessioned2025-09-08T07:46:33Z
dc.date.available2025-09-08T07:46:33Z
dc.date.issued2024-03-14
dc.description.abstractThough urban scholars have drawn our attention to the multiple water infrastructures serving urbanites in the global South, studies rarely explored the practice through which prices are produced and governed within the heterogeneous infrastructures that supply water beyond the utility. Drawing perspectives from everyday pricing practices and heterogeneous water infrastructures, we contribute to the scientific discourse on heterogeneous infrastructures, everyday practices and infrastructure governance by showing how multiple infrastructural systems beyond the utility network, such as hydro-mobile and private network water providers produced prices to mediate water collection. Prices were established based on the cost of electricity, fuel, repairs and maintenance, location and/or distance, nature of road connectivity to clients’ residences, and providers’ expected profit margins. Water providers’ discretions and learning by doing enabled the continuity of pricing practices. The conventional practice of non-collective negotiation and bargaining produced specific prices between water providers and end-users. The novelty of the paper emanates from the ways in which prices are produced and governed. In contrast to conventional tariff systems, reflectivity, creativity, practical knowledge and experiences acquired by non-state actors over time works to produce prices. The involved non-state actors exercised regulatory power over prices of water produced and supplied beyond the utility. When prices were established, they remained subject to modification. We argue that the focus on pricing sheds light on an important aspect of heterogeneous infrastructure provision and governance: where varied prices are established outside formal regulation, they reflect, shape and exacerbate fine-grained socio-spatial differences between individuals within single neighbourhood.en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2003/43943
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dc.relation.ispartofseriesEnvironment and planning; 7(4)
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.subjectUrban infrastructureen
dc.subjectWater pricingen
dc.subjectGovernanceen
dc.subjectDar es Salaamen
dc.subjectHeterogeneous infrastructureen
dc.subject.ddc710
dc.titleCharging the non-networked: water pricing governance of the heterogeneous infrastructures beyond the utility network in Dar es Salaamen
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dc.type.publicationtypeResearchArticle
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eldorado.secondarypublication.primarycitationDakyaga, F., Schramm, S., Lupala, J. M., & Magembe-Mushi, D. L. (2024). Charging the non-networked: Water pricing governance of the heterogeneous infrastructures beyond the utility network in Dar es Salaam. Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space, 7(4), 1868-1892. https://doi.org/10.1177/25148486241238402
eldorado.secondarypublication.primaryidentifierhttps://doi.org/10.1177/25148486241238402

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