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The business of water and sustainable development

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This title examines the role of privatization, technology and multi-sectoral partnerships to provide answers to one of the most pressing environmental and social problems of the twenty-first century - how to provide access to safe drinking water and adequate sanitation for some 2 billion of the world's poor in the next 15 years.

Title The business of water and sustainable development / edited by Jonathan Chenoweth, Juliet Bird.
Edition 1st.
Publisher London : Routledge
Creation Date 2018
Notes Previously issued in print: Sheffield: Greenleaf, 2005.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
English
Content Incorporating demand-side information into water utility operations and planning -- The price of water Separating the natural form the optimal in water supply : ensuring the broadest community access to safe water -- Balancing the cost implications and benefits of compliance with advanced risk analysis -- Environmental management with the balanced scorecard : a case study of Berlin Water Company, Germany -- The private sector and service extension -- Private-sector participation in water and sanitization reviewed : insights from new institutional economics -- Ownership and performance of water utilities.
The involvement of the private sector in water servicing : effects on the urban poor in the case of Aguascalientes, Mexico -- Joint-use municipal-industrial infrastructure : an innovative approach to expanding urban water services in the developing world -- Autonomous water supply of a remote island community : the case of geothermal water desalination on Milos, Greece -- Ecological sanitation : reaching for the MDGs -- A measured step towards sustainability for rural water supply : one metering strategy that works -- Sustainable water supply for a remote rural community of Mozambique : Oxfam Australia and the Chicomo Rural Development Project -- Indigenous people, women and water : the importance of local knowledge for project planning in an African context .
The commitment of the chlorine industry to sustainable societies : a partnership case study in Guatemala -- Water-pricing policies and the Water Framework Directive 2000/60/EC : a first approach concerning the agricultural sector in the Axios River Basin -- Reducing water and sanitation backlogs in rural areas : Umgeni Water’s response as an implementing agent within KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa -- The demand-side versus the supply-side approach : the case for sustainable management of water supply in developing countries -- Water supply in Singapore : challenges and choices.
Extent 1 online resource (277 p.)
Language English
National Library system number 997010708743805171
MARC RECORDS
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