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Water and Sanitation in the World's Cities |
Local Action for Global Goals:
The world’s governments agreed at the Millennium Summit to halve the number of people who lack access to safe water, mainly in the world’s cities, by 2015. With rapidly growing urban populations the challenge is immense.
This is a comprehensive and authoritative assessment of the problems and how they can be addressed. It sets out in detail the scale of inadequate provision of water and sanitation; it describes the impacts on health and economic performance, showing the potential gains of remedial action; it analyzes the proximate and underlying causes of poor provision and identifies information gaps affecting resource allocation; it outlines the consequences of further deterioration; and it explains how resources and institutional capacities -- public, private, and community -- can be used to deliver proper services through integrated water resource management.
United Nations Human Settlements Program (HABITAT) is the UN program responsible for cities and settlements, and the world’s leading research organization in the field.
Contents:
Provision of Water and Sanitation in Cities
The Impacts of Deficient Provision
Explaining Deficiencies in Urban Water and Sanitation Provision
Increasing Water Stress and Its Impact
Changing Perspectives and Roles: Privatization and Beyond
Improving Provision Through Integrated Water Resource Management
Governance for Good Provision: Getting the Best from Public, Private and Community Organizations
Bibliography
"In a rapidly urbanizing world, the battle for water and sanitation will have to be fought in human settlements, particularly in slums and shanties of the growing urban areas of developing countries. Achieving these avowed goals will remain a distant dream if we do not focus on the slums of Nairobi, the bustees of Calcutta and the favelas of Rio. The analytical work in this report and its key finding -- that local solutions are key to achieving global goals -- should provide a valuable input to the work of the Millennium Task Force."
-- Anna Kajumulo Tibaijuka, Under-Secretary-General, United Nations, and Executive Director, UN-HABITAT
"This is surely the most impressive and important publication to come out of the UN system for many years. It brings together 20 years of evidence from attempts to build the foundations of public health in the developing world -- hygiene, sanitation and water supply -- and shapes that evidence into the lessons and insights that show the way forward."
-- Peter Adamson, founder, New Internationalist, and author and researcher of UNICEF’s The State of the World’s Children from 1980 to 1995
"This important book addresses all of the main policy questions facing the water supply and sanitation sector, and debunks most of the myths and misconceptions which have beset it in recent years. It should be prescribed reading for anyone interested in water and sanitation policy."
-- Sandy Cairncross, Professor of Environmental Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
"This is an excellent review of the current status of water and sanitation in the world's urban areas; a better-understanding of which must be achieved if the proposed Millenium Development Goals are to be met?.In general, arguments are clearly laid out with good supporting text box case studies and examples. Excellent statistical compilations were also carried out?this book is an excellent compilation of the central policy issues affecting current urban water and sanitation provision."
-- The Environmentalist
Published by Earthscan Publications Ltd.
United Nations Human Settlements Program
May 2005
320 pp., 8 1/4" x 11 3/4", maps, figures & tables.
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