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    Flushing away arid theories: a reality check on the water debate

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    Is there too much theorizing about water? Does regarding water as an economic good obscure its cultural, social and symbolic dimensions? Can market forces protect the right of the poor to water?
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    Throwing the baby out with the bath water? Urban water management in Zimbabwe

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    Reforms in Zimbabwe's urban water supply are driven by drought, financial shortage, and a growing awareness that water is a scarce commodity with economic value. The old system of water management based on direct governmental administration and professional control was effective, but new approaches are now designed to improve efficiency, equity, and sustainability.
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    What the users think - health and water service reform in Zimbabwe

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    Economic reform (Economic Structural Adjustment Programme) in Zimbabwe in the 1990s has reduced public sector spending and introduced cost sharing to social services. As part of a series of studies carried out by the School of Public Policy, Birmingham on the role of government following structural adjustment, the views of health and water users were sought.
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    Water and sanitation goals: is progress in the pipeline?

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    In the 1980s, the world set the goal of water and sanitation for all by the end of the decade. By contrast, the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) are only to halve the proportions without affordable access to safe water and adequate sanitation by 2015.
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    Private sector participation in water and sanitation: promises and pitfalls

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    The perception that governments cannot efficiently provide water and sanitation (WSS) services has led to greatly increased private sector participation (PSP). Are regulatory regimes ensuring that service providers do not exploit their customers? Can PSPs save water and make it safer? Are the poor getting basic services?
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    Water privatisation in Africa: how successful is it?

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    In much of Africa it is now thought that only privatisation can deliver improved water supply services. Is this assumption correct and is it based on concrete evidence? Can privatisation address the chronic problem of under-investment? How have management and institutional frameworks adapted to the arrival of major international water firms?
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    PPPs, PWUs or PUPs? Alternatives to private sector water delivery

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    Has the case for water privatisation been exaggerated? Are public sector water providers really that inefficient? Could public sector water undertakings (PWUs) or public-public partnerships (PUPs) between northern and southern public water utilities be more efficient, pro-poor, and more accountable than the much-vaunted and better- known Anglo-French model of public private partnerships (PPPs)?
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    Power to choose: is pro-poor privatisation possible?

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    How can private sector contracts be designed to serve the needs of the poor more effectively? Should quality of service be set at costly western standards? Or can large and small water providers compete to supply a range of services at prices that reflect consumer willingness and ability to pay?
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    Privatisation and poverty: the distributional impact of utility privatisation

    Centre on Regulation and Competition, Manchester, 2002
    This paper examines the relative distributional impact of utility privatisation to consider whether the policy is likely to relieve or exacerbate the quality of life of those on very low incomes.
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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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