{"id":242,"date":"2013-07-22T10:18:11","date_gmt":"2013-07-22T10:18:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/afrifacto.com\/burundi\/challenges-and-investment-opportunities-in-water-sector\/"},"modified":"2016-06-07T15:52:24","modified_gmt":"2016-06-07T15:52:24","slug":"challenges-and-investment-opportunities-in-water-sector","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/afrifacto.com\/burundi\/challenges-and-investment-opportunities-in-water-sector\/","title":{"rendered":"Challenges in water sector"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The water sector of Burundi is faced with the following challenges<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Dilapidated infrastructure as a result of civil war<\/li>\n<li>Increased water prices especially in urban centers<\/li>\n<li>Rural water service has insufficient capacities to adequately manage rural water and water supply infrastructures<\/li>\n<li>Water resources are trans-boundary in nature and shared with her neighbors.<\/li>\n<li>Inadequate resources in terms of funding, there is limited government funding to water sector<\/li>\n<li>Limited private sector capacity to cope with demand for water<\/li>\n<li>Increased pollution of raw water sources especially lakes and rivers.<\/li>\n<li>Inadequate capacity to plan and implement water sector activities<\/li>\n<li>Hilly terrain that needs expensive motorized water system has been as one of the challenges to water supply in some areas.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The water sector of Burundi is faced with the following challenges Dilapidated infrastructure as a result of civil war Increased water prices especially in urban centers Rural water service has insufficient capacities to adequately manage rural water and water supply infrastructures Water resources are trans-boundary in nature and shared with her neighbors. Inadequate resources in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-242","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"blocksy_meta":{"styles_descriptor":{"styles":{"desktop":"","tablet":"","mobile":""},"google_fonts":[],"version":8}},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P4Xm5Y-3U","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/afrifacto.com\/burundi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/afrifacto.com\/burundi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/afrifacto.com\/burundi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afrifacto.com\/burundi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afrifacto.com\/burundi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/afrifacto.com\/burundi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/242\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/afrifacto.com\/burundi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}