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  Water supply and sanitation access and use by physically disabled people: a literature review

  Water Engineering and Development Centre, 2002

  This paper addresses the issue of aids to assist physically disabled people and their families living in low-income communities, to maximise their access to and use of the domestic water cycle.
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  Water supply and demand: how to meet the need for ever scarcer water supplies

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002

  Why is water a rapidly diminishing resource in many parts of the world? How do social and economic processes effect water supplies? What is the relationship between environmental factors and socio-economic processes? Research from the University of Hull examines the links between population density, forest removal, land degradation and water scarcity in Barbados, Antigua and St. Vincent.
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  The regulation of private sector participation in urban water supply and sanitation: realising social and environmental objectives in developing countries

  Environmental Economics Programme, IIED, 1999

  This paper provides an overview of the issues involved in the significant increase in private sector participation (PSP) in the urban water supply and sanitation (WSS) sector in recent years, and examines some of the mechanisms available to the authorities responsible for the regulation of the sector.The report argues that PSP in urban WSS is likely to continue to increase in importance in deve
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  Water supply and sanitation coverage in UNEP regional seas: need for regional wastewater emissions targets?

  United Nations [UN] Environment Programme, 2002

  Water supply and sanitation are topics of great importance in addressing the serious public health problems, economic losses and the degradation of coastal ecosystems.
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  Improving community based management of boreholes: a case study from Malawi

  Land Tenure Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2002

  Examines ways in which the rate of hand-pump sustainability may be improved.The main conclusion is that sustainability is more likely through using good quality products, and by assuring reliable management services are provided by the users. The latter should be backed up by a reliable spares supply chain as well as by locally available mechanics trained in advanced repairs.
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  Operation and maintenance of rural water supply and sanitation systems: a training package for managers and planners

  IRC International Water and Sanitation Centre, 2001

  Training package designed as a guide to facilitators who run courses or workshops on the management of operation and maintenance of rural water supply and sanitation services. It aims to improve the efficiency, effectiveness and sustainability of water supply and sanitation services by highlighting the importance of community participation with the appropriate gender balance.
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  Water supply and sanitation for developing countries: Directories of UK-based research (Garnet)

  Global Applied Research Network in Water Supply and Sanitation, 1999
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  Efficiency and equity considerations in pricing and allocating irrigation water

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1995

  Pricing of water may affect allocation considerations by users. Efficiency is attainable whenever the pricing method affects the demand for irrigation water. The extent to which water pricing methods can affect income redistribution is limited.
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  Directory of donor agencies funding water supply and sanitation projects.

  Global Applied Research Network in Water Supply and Sanitation, 1999

  Provides an overview of the main agencies funding applied research in the water supply and sanitation sector. Contains a review of the key players in the funding of applied research, the criteria they apply, fields of interest and contact persons within theorganisations
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  Removing ropes, attaching strings : institutional arrangements to provide water

  Indigenous Knowledge and Development Monitor - Indigenous Knowledge WorldWide, 1993

  The case of Dodopani (India) illustrates that governments often attempt sweeping technically oriented changes to improve standards of living without paying adequate attention to the political and institutional context that defines rural power dynamics, interactions and realities.

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