Full Description
More than 2.6 billion people in the developing world lack access to safe water and sanitation service. The Millennium Development Goal's (MDG) target is to halve the number of people without access to a sustainable source of water supply and connection to a sewer network by 2015. That target is unlikely to be met. If there is anything that can be learnt from European experience it is that institutional reform occurs incrementally when politically enfranchised urban populations perceive a threat to their material well-being due to contamination of water sources.
Contents
Neither Rural nor Urban: Service Delivery Options That Work for the Peri-urban Poor.- Prospects for Resource Recovery Through Wastewater Reuse.- Climate-Based Risks in Cities.- Wastewater Management Under the Dutch Water Boards: Any Lessons for Developing Countries?.- Financing the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) for Water and Sanitation: Issues and Options.- Budget Support for Local Government: Theory and Practice.- Information's Role in Adaptive Groundwater Management.- Making Sense of Human-Environment Interaction: Policy Guidance Under Conditions of Imperfect Data.- Approaches to Economic and Environmental Valuation of Domestic Wastewater.- Benchmarking Water Services Delivery.- Planning Clinics: A Primer.- Conclusions: Governance Challenges in Urban and Peri-urban Areas.
