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  Water privatisation and people’s struggle to protect common water rights in Sri Lanka

  South Asia Alliance for Poverty Alleviation, 2003

  This issue of the SAAPE newsletter covers water privatisation in South Asia.
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  Building high-performance knowledge institutions for water management

  International Water Management Institute, 2003

  This briefing argues that many Indian water management institutions are failing to live up to their original promise, failing to deliver high-value thinking, insights or perspectives. It demonstrates that by allowing these institutions to stagnate, there is a risk of a loss of a vitally important tool for research and policy making.
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  Running pure: the importance of forest protected areas to drinking water

  WWF-World Wide Fund For Nature, 2003

  This report presents arguments for the potential role of protected areas in helping to maintain water supply to major cities. It demonstrates that water provides a powerful argument for protection.
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  Water privatisation in Latin America, 2002

  Public Services International Research Unit, PSIRU, 2002

  This report sets out the main developments and current situation in respect of water privatisation and restructuring in Latin America as at June 2002. It assesses the multinationals active in Latin America; issues of public sector water and resistance; the Argentina crisis; conditionality problems; labour issues; and public finance. It presents developments by country in south and central America.
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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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  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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  Water and the least developed countries

  International Institute for Environment and Development, 2003

  This paper begins by providing background information on least developed countries (LDCs) which are the world's 49 poorest, and comparing them with other developing countries.
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  The great water robbery

  One World Action, 2002

  Water is a precious resource and nowadays it is becoming more and more limited.
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  Water privatisation in SSA: Progress, problems and policy implications

  Public Services International Research Unit, PSIRU, 2002

  A large number of countries in the Sub-Saharian African (SSA) region have privatised water supply. But water is not like other commodities. The SSA are extremely poor and often subject to financial crises, therefore it is particularly difficult to promote the water sector as an attractive business prospect.
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  Global water outlook to 2025: averting an impending crisis

  International Food Policy Research Institute, 2002

  IFPRI and IWMI's report uses computer modeling to project water demand and availability through to 2025 and predicts the likely impact of changes in water policy and investment, making specific recommendations for specific locations around the globe.The report argues that if current water policies continue, farmers will find it difficult to meet the world’s food needs.

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