Conflict and collaboration for water resources in Angola's post-war cities

Since 2002, Angola has been recovering from four decades of civil war. The conflict resulted in mass displacement of people, destruction of infrastructure, and diversion of investments away from maintenance and infrastructure development, producing chronic public health problems for the population at large. Social exclusion, inequality, and poverty—problems that originally seeded the conflict— are still problems in the post-war era. Access to water mirrors the biased distribution pattern of other resources in Angola. The majority of low-income, urban communities still have no access to affordable potable water and are mainly served by informal water vendors.