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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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    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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    Water Delivery’s poor cousins: Sanitation and Hygiene in Urban Environments

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    The development and delivery of sanitation services and hygiene promotion remain poor cousins to water supply, being neither ‘clean’ nor as politically useful as the delivery of water. However, they are as important in reducing preventable diseases and with the new target agreed last summer at Johannesburg, sanitation at least will hopefully become more of a development priority.
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    Much to be done: can water supply and sanitation targets be met?

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    The 1990 World Summit for Children pledged to provide universal access to safe water by the end of the century. Why then do 2.2 million people still die each year from preventable diseases associated with a lack of safe water, inadequate sanitation and poor hygiene?
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    Communities protecting water

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    The Kumasi peri-urban area is characterised by high rates of conversion of agricultural land to private housing. Kumasi, Ghana, is also situated across a major drainage divide, resulting in a range of water quality and supply problems.
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    From subsidy to sustainability: cost recovery challenges in urban water supply

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    Although water is increasingly seen as an economic good, the issue of cost recovery for water supply and sanitation is far from straightforward. Poor households are in some places reluctant or unable to pay for networked services while in others they pay far more for informally-provided water supplies.
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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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    Tapping the market. Can private enterprise supply water to the poor?

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    Over 170 million people have no access to clean water in urban areas of Africa, Asia and Latin America, according to the latest WHO/UNICEF data (2000).
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    Here to stay? Pros and cons of water merchants

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    Paraguay has one of the lowest water and sanitation coverages in Latin America. Less than half the 5 million population has access to piped water. 400, 000 are supplied by 400 small-scale supply systems from groundwater sources run privately by 'aguateros' or water merchants. Water is pumped from a well, to upwards of 100 households, for a few hours a day.

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