Evaluating the Behaviour of Good Governance on Enhancing Adult Literacy Rate for Renewable Freshwater Consumption in African Countries

Abstract

Water is renewable because it is recycled in a short period that can be useful for human-being and wildlife.  Renewable water resources comprise all surface water and groundwater resources that are transformed on a yearly basis without contemplation of the capability to harvest and use this resource. The study is developed on secondary data from the world bank website from the year 1995 to 2015. Water consumption and environmental sustainability are well-connected terms that show the level of sustainability for future generations. In this paper, the author tries to examine the role of literacy and good governance on renewable freshwater consumption, which might be used for household or commercial purposes. The author divides zonal basis where Government effectiveness merge with adult literacy rate (GE*ALR) help increase the renewable water consumption level by 0.58, 1.66, and 1.57 billion cubic meters for NAZ, EAZ, and WAZ respectively. These values are statistically significant and have an impact on models. Reversely, when regulatory quality (RQ) merges with the adult literacy rate (ALR), only WAZ experiences positively. However, Rules of Law (RL) and ALR bring a good sign for NAZ among five zones. Moreover, the adult literacy rate (ALR) plays a positive and statistically significant impact on NAZ and MAZ as solely but turns negative for WAZ.