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    Plumbing a new institutional economics: sustainable water supply systems for Tamilnadu, India

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    How can costly infrastructure such as water supply systems be made more sustainable? In the past, technocrats have set the design criteria, but how important are political and institutional factors? What costs and charges should policymakers take into consideration? And who else holds a stake in water supply?
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    Opening the taps: what role for government in urban water supply in Sri Lanka?

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    Water is considered a strategic sector in most developing countries and supplies have traditionally been controlled by state monopolies.
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    Politics and provision On-the-ground realities of water and sanitation development

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    Addressing the challenge of water and sanitation under-provision requires a subtle understanding of several factors: the nature of the resource, the wider poverty environments in which millions of people live and the politics within which problems are framed and solutions are sought. How do current policy debates deal with these factors?
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    South Africa’s ‘World in one country’ experience

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    Africa is facing a water and sanitation crisis. An estimated one in three Africans do not have access to adequate water supply and sanitation facilities. In sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) 40% of people lack access to a safe water supply and almost half suffer from water related diseases. In the face of these statistics, can the water and sanitation goals be met in Africa?
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    Subsidy or self-respect? Lessons from Bangladesh

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    In large parts of Bangladesh, people in both rural and urban areas practice open defecation. Despite 30 years of efforts by international agencies and non-governmental organisations to improve environmental sanitation, it is hard to find even 100 villages out of nearly 85 000 that are completely sanitised.
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    Soap: the missing ingredient in the water and sanitation mix

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    Until now, water supply has had the bulk of development investment, but should sanitation and hygiene be receiving at least equal attention? Separately, or better, together, these three form our best means of preventing the gastro-intestinal or diarrhoeal diseases that are one of the leading killers of children in developing countries today.
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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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    Transforming with technology in India

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    The scenes are shocking and the statistics are overwhelming: 700 million people in India defecate in the open, there are 120 million ‘no toilet’ households and 10 million bucket privies rely on ‘scavengers’ who have the demeaning task of removing excreta by hand. How can these scenes be changed for the better?
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    Can social marketing increase demand and uptake of sanitation?

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    Despite the gains made in increasing sanitation coverage during the United Nations water and sanitation decade of 1981 – 1990, over 2.4 billion people still do not have access to improved sanitation. Why is the uptake of sanitation low? Is a new approach to promoting sanitation needed?
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    Urban sanitation: are the poor being heard?

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    The international commitment to provide basic services for all has yet to be achieved for a high percentage of the urban poor. Residents of densely crowded settlements endure the indignity, shame and sickness that lack of sanitation produces. Improved sanitation will provide real benefits to the lives and livelihoods of the poor.

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