Review: Privatizing Water: Governance Failure and the World's Urban Water Crisis

The child health implications of privatizing Africa's urban water supply.

Can private sector participation (PSP) in the piped water sector improve child health? I use child-level data from 39 African countries during 1986-2010 to show that PSP decreases diarrhea among urban-dwelling, under-five children by 2.6 percentage points, or 16% of its mean prevalence. Children from the poorest households benefit most. PSP is also associated with a 7.8 percentage point increas...

Convergence indicators of water crisis management policies: A review study

Background and Aim: Achieving macro goals in countries is always a function of correct policies, which is necessary to create alignment and convergence of responsible agencies through a comprehensive and convergent policy. The water crisis is one of the issues in which the lack of consistent policies can lead to inefficiency of programs and ultimately the loss of opportunities. A prerequisite f...

What drives the urban water regime? An analysis of water governance arrangements in Hyderabad, India

Urban water scarcity is increasingly seen as a governance issue, not least in cities like Hyderabad, India, where the demand for urban water exceeds the available supply to the extent that some low priority areas in the city receive water for only a few hours on alternate days. Based on a multi-level perspective in transition studies, this study explores the major interplay between actors in th...

Governance in Urban Development Crisis Situations

The governance dimensions of water security: a review.

Water governance is critical to water security, and to the long-term sustainability of the Earth's freshwater systems. This review examines recent debates regarding the governance dimensions of water security, including adaptive governance, polycentric governance, social learning and multi-level governance. The analysis emphasizes the political and institutional dimensions of water governance, ...