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    Water theme paper (sustainable livelihoods)

    Environment Team, IDS Sussex, 2002
    The key concern of this paper is with the implications of changes in institutions and policy in the water sector for poor communities, households and individuals. Three case studies are used, Zimbabwe, South Africa and Mozambique, to illustrate changes in decentralisation, the involvement of stakeholders in decision making, and the role of the private sector.
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    The politics of water: a Southern African example

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2003
    This report examines the political contradictions embedded in water reform processes across different levels in Zimbabwe, South Africa and Mozambique. It argues that implementing ideas on water reform often borrowed from extremely different contexts is not an automatic and unproblematic process, but involves complex local political negotiation.
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    Caught in the act: new stakeholders, decentralisation and water management processes in Zimbabwe

    Environment Team, IDS Sussex, 2003
    This study focuses on the experience of water resource governance in one main river basin in Zimbabwe, the Save.
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    Rural development, institutional change and livelihoods in the Eastern Cape, South Africa: a case study of Mdudwa Village

    Environment Team, IDS Sussex, 2003
    This paper looks at the case of Mdudwa village in the Eastern Cape to explore the processes and impacts of democratic decentralisation.
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    Water without frontiers: improved management of transboundary water resources

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2003
    Over 40 per cent of the world’s population share water basins and aquifers (a rock-based source of groundwater) with neighbouring states. Can the management of transboundary water resources foster poverty reduction, sustainable environmental protection and political stability? Has the international community a role to play as a third party mediator between wary states?
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    Distinguishing rhetoric from reality: the search for common ground in water and sanitation

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2003
    As water becomes increasingly scarce, should we focus on controlling demand or augmenting supply? Can the split between public and private management of water be resolved? Should water be reserved for food production or can food security be guaranteed through trade? How should developing countries adjust their economies in response to water stress?
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    The commodification of water: leaving us high and dry?

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2003
    Who owns water? Should anybody own it? Is water a human need or a human right? As the world’s water crisis worsens, can private sector management come to the rescue – or is fresh water in danger of becoming big business and a preserve of the wealthy?
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    Water privatisation in Latin America, 2002

    Public Services International Research Unit, PSIRU, 2002
    This report sets out the main developments and current situation in respect of water privatisation and restructuring in Latin America as at June 2002. It assesses the multinationals active in Latin America; issues of public sector water and resistance; the Argentina crisis; conditionality problems; labour issues; and public finance. It presents developments by country in south and central America.
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    Financing water for the world: an alternative to guaranteed profits

    Public Services International Research Unit, PSIRU, 2003
    This paper assesses the initiatives of the Global Water Partnership and World Water Council, and the European Union to address the question of financing the development and extension of water supply and sanitation in developing countries.The paper argues that both of them give a central role to using donor aid to leverage further funds for investment from private sector water companies.
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    New rules, new roles: does PSP benefit the poor?

    Wateraid, 2003
    This synthesis paper reports on the impact of the increasing role of the private sector in the provision of water services and resources on the rural and urban poor in 10 developing countries.

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