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  UN Millennium Project Task Force: water and sanitation

  United Nations [UN] University Millennium Project, 2005

  This report, produced by the United Nations Millennium Project, is targeted primarily at the policy and technical communities concerned with the achievement of the water supply and sanitation Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).
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  Drawers of water II: 30 years of change in domestic water use and environmental health in east Africa: Kenya country study

  International Institute for Environment and Development, 2004

  This paper discusses changes in domestic water use over three decades in twelve rural and urban sites in Kenya. The rural and urban sites reflect the diversity of environments, living conditions and water service levels found throughout Kenya.The paper findings reveal both positive and negative changes in water use, in terms of levels and types of use, reliability, access and cost.
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  Water for the poorest

  Eldis Document Store, 2003

  This paper reports on a United Nations conference held in Norway, November 2003, in support of the 12th session of the Commission for Sustainable Development.
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  Katunguru, Queen Elisabeth National Park, Uganda: rural water supply pilot project

  Yme, 2004

  This short paper reports on a rural water supply pilot project in Uganda, initiated by YME (a Norwegian NGO) in conjunction with the Uganda Wildlife Authorities (UWA).
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  Financing wastewater collection and treatment in relation to the Millennium Development Goals and World Summit on Sustainable Development targets on water and sanitation

  UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre, 2004

  This paper addresses the global financing challenge facing environmental water resource management with respect to the water supply and sanitation targets agreed upon as it relates to the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) and the World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD).
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  Private sector participation in water supply: too fast, too soon?

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002

  Is water privatisation being over-promoted? Is private sector participation (PSP) in its current forms likely to promote the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals to provide the poor with reliable, affordable and sustainable, safe drinking water? How do members of poor communities affected by the process judge PSP? 
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  Tapping into the problem: water shortages in Nigeria

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002

  Do people living in Nigerian villages have clean drinking water?  Do they have enough water to meet their daily hygiene requirements?  The University of Edinburgh, UK, together with the Federal Polytechnic in Bauchi, Nigeria, looked at the supply of water to people living in rural communities in Taraba State, in eastern Nigeria.
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  Economic good or natural asset? Sustainable livelihoods approaches to water supply

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002

  The domestic water sector has focused for many years on benefiting health by improving supply. Can more and better water improve people’s health? Does improved water supply by government and agencies really meet the basic needs of the poor? Or should water be treated as an economic good?
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  Wishing well: making drinking water projects more gender sensitive?

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002

  Women bear most of the burden of collecting, protecting, maintaining and storing water. In many developing countries, inadequate water supply is a major problem. In the 1980s, women’s roles in water management were partially recognised and their participation in water projects was promoted to a certain extent.
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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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