The Business of Water and Sustainable Development.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction -- Part 1 General theory -- 1 Incorporating demand-side information into water utility operations and planning -- 2 The price of water. Separating the natural from the optimal in water supply: ensuring the broadest community access to safe water -- 3 Balancing the cost implications and benefits of compliance with advanced risk analysis -- 4 Environmental management with the balanced scorecard: a case study of the Berlin Water Company, Germany -- Part 2 Privatisation -- 5 The private sector and service extension -- 6 Private-sector participation in water and sanitation reviewed: insights from new institutional economics -- 7 Ownership and performance of water utilities -- 8 The involvement of the private sector in water servicing: effects on the urban poor in the case of Aguascalientes, Mexico -- 9 Joint-use municipal-industrial infrastructure: an innovative approach to expanding urban water services in the developing world -- Part 3 Technology -- 10 Autonomous water supply of a remote island community: the case of geothermal water desalination on Milos, Greece -- 11 Ecological sanitation: reaching for the MDGs -- 12 A measured step toward sustainability for rural water supply: one metering strategy that works -- 13 Sustainable water supply for a remote rural community in Mozambique: Oxfam Australia and the Chicomo Rural Development Project -- Part 4 Regionally focused case studies: rural environments -- 14 Indigenous people, women and water: the importance of local knowledge for project planning in an African context -- 15 The commitment of the chlorine industry to sustainable societies: a partnership case study in Guatemala -- 16 Water-pricing policies and the Water Framework Directive 2000/60/EC: a first approach concerning the agricultural sector in the Axios River Basin.

17 Reducing water and sanitation backlogs in rural areas: Umgeni Water's response as an implementing agent within KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa -- Part 5 Regionally focused case studies: urban environments -- 18 The demand-side versus the supply-side approach: the case for sustainable management of water supply in developing countries -- 19 Water supply in Singapore: challenges and choices -- Biographies -- Abbreviations -- Index.

This title examines the role of privatization, technology and multi-sectoral partnerships to provide answers to one of the most pressing environmental and social problems of the twenty-first century - how to provide access to safe drinking water and adequate sanitation for some 2 billion of the world's poor in the next 15 years.

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