The business of water and sustainable development / edited by Jonathan Chenoweth, Juliet Bird.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Chenoweth, Jonathan, author.

Contributor:

Chenoweth, Jonathan, editor.

Bird, Juliet, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Water-supply.

Sanitation.

Sustainable development.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (277 p.)

Edition:

1st

Place of Publication:

London : Routledge, 2018.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Incorporating demand-side information into water utility operations and planning

The price of water Separating the natural form the optimal in water supply : ensuring the broadest community access to safe water

Balancing the cost implications and benefits of compliance with advanced risk analysis

Environmental management with the balanced scorecard : a case study of Berlin Water Company, Germany

The private sector and service extension

Private-sector participation in water and sanitization reviewed : insights from new institutional economics

Ownership and performance of water utilities.

The involvement of the private sector in water servicing : effects on the urban poor in the case of Aguascalientes, Mexico

Joint-use municipal-industrial infrastructure : an innovative approach to expanding urban water services in the developing world

Autonomous water supply of a remote island community : the case of geothermal water desalination on Milos, Greece

Ecological sanitation : reaching for the MDGs

A measured step towards sustainability for rural water supply : one metering strategy that works

Sustainable water supply for a remote rural community of Mozambique : Oxfam Australia and the Chicomo Rural Development Project

Indigenous people, women and water : the importance of local knowledge for project planning in an African context .

The commitment of the chlorine industry to sustainable societies : a partnership case study in Guatemala

Water-pricing policies and the Water Framework Directive 2000/60/EC : a first approach concerning the agricultural sector in the Axios River Basin

Reducing water and sanitation backlogs in rural areas : Umgeni Water’s response as an implementing agent within KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

The demand-side versus the supply-side approach : the case for sustainable management of water supply in developing countries

Water supply in Singapore : challenges and choices.

Notes:

Previously issued in print: Sheffield: Greenleaf, 2005.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

ISBN:

1-351-28266-2

1-351-28267-0

1-351-28268-9

1-78353-206-8

1-909493-53-8

9781351282680

OCLC:

884015598