Water supply privatization was emblematic of the neoliberal turn in development policy in
the 1990s. Proponents argued that the private sector could provide better services at lower …

This fully updated third edition of the classic text, widely cited as the most important and
useful book for health engineering and disease prevention, describes infectious diseases in …

Behind headline successes in providing first-time access to water lie a number of pressing
challenges to the dominant approach to rural water supply in developing countries, namely …

Political economy scholarship suggests that private sector investment, and thus economic
growth, is more likely to occur when formal institutions allow states to provide investors with …

This chapter provides an overview of the challenges facing urban wastewater governance in
Latin America. Usually the analysis of water governance is centred on water supply, demand …

Productivity analyses focus on either efficiency or effectiveness. This paper provides a step-
wise approach for evaluating utility performance. In a first step, utilities' technical efficiency is …

The results of the analysis of water utility performance studies based on data envelopment
analysis (DEA) can be very sensitive to the methodological approach and the variables …

Over the past decades 'water for all'has become a dominant development mantra, illustrated
by global strategies like the Millennium Development Goals (2000–2015) and the …

Community management has been widely criticized, yet it continues to play a significant role
in rural drinking water supply. In India, as with other 'emerging'economies, the management …

This book exposes the inefficiencies in private sector provision and lack of capacity of Local
Governments to deal with solid waste collection. The book will be essential for students …