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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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  Still fixated with privatisation: a critical review of the World Bank's water resources sector strategy

  Public Services International Research Unit, PSIRU, 2002

  This article discusses the World Bank's water strategy. The article is critical of the water strategy.
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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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  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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  Developing Small Dams and Social Capital in Yemen: Local Responses to External Assistance

  International Association for the Study of Common Property, 2000

  This paper examines six cases of small dam development along small seasonal rivers (wadi) in the rugged mountainous province of Al-Mahweet in north central Yemen.Development of small dams is a current priority of the Government of Yemen and various foreign donors.
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  Rural water tenure in East Africa: a comparative study of legal regimes and community responses to changing tenure patterns in Tanzania and Kenya

  Land Tenure Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2000

  This paper looks at the water policy of Tanzania, and makes comparisons with the situation in Kenya. It focuses especially on recent attempts to move towards a participatory, demand-management approach to rural water supply.
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  Institutions, politics, and contracts: the attempt to privatize the water and sanitation utility of Lima, Peru

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 2000

  This article deals with various issues surrounding the privatization of the the Water and Sanitation Utility of Lima, Peru. Lima's water system was in near-crisis, but this was not enough to bring about radical change. Partial reforms to reduce many of the city's worst problems were carried out under public management.
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  Community participation in traditional irrigation scheme rehabilitation projects in Tanzania: report of a collaborative research project

  Economic and Social Research Foundation, Tanzania, 2001

  This research article looks at how participatory methods can be used in projects to rehabilitate tradtional irrigation schemes in Tanzania.
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  Are stable agreements for sharing international river waters now possible?

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1995

  Proposed here is a new scheme for allocating international river water that accounts for the stochastic nature of water supply and the dynamic nature of its demand.

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