TITLE:
Thinking Development: African Culture and Sustainable Water Management
AUTHORS:
Akowanou Clément Ahouandjinou, Cheikh Ibrahima Niang, Abdoulaye Sene
KEYWORDS:
Culture, Sustainable Development, Water, Management, Ethics, Environment
JOURNAL NAME:
Open Journal of Philosophy,
Vol.10 No.3,
August
11,
2020
ABSTRACT: This
article is intended to be a contribution to the discussion on culture and
development, the central place that culture must occupy at the heart of development.
Criticism of the concept of sustainable development has shown that it does not
integrate culture. This discussion is applied in this study to the rural water
sector in Africa, which is a key sector of development. Thus, the articulation
of culture and sustainable development in the water sector has three aspects. That
the local culture of beneficiaries of hydraulic structures providing access to
drinking water be taken into account for an economically viable, socially
equitable and ecologically viable management and that future generation can
benefit from it.