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  Privatization revisited: lessons from private sector participation in water supply and sanitation in developing countries

  Asian Development Bank, 2008

  This paper examines the experiences of private sector participation (PSP) in the water supply and sanitation (WSS) sector. The paper argues that publicly owned water utilities have not always been successful in both developed and developing economies. However, non-market failures in supplying water are much more severe in developing economies.
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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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  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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  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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  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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  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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