Water and sanitation services : public policy and management

Editors' Introduction. Section 1: Theoretical and Conceptual Dimensions. 1. Systemic Conditions and Public Policy in the Water and Sanitation Sector. 2. Troubled Waters. The Political Economy of Essential Public Services. 3. Public Policy Analysis in the Water and Sanitation Sector: Budgetary and Management Aspects. 4. North-South Transfer of the Paradigm of Piped Water. The Role of the Public Sector in Water and Sanitation Services. 5. Management and Organization of Water and Sanitation Services: European Experiences. 6. Public Policy Options for Financing Sewerage Systems. 7. Interfaces and Inter-sector Approaches: Water and Sanitation and Public Health. 8. The Market-centred Paradigm. 9. Complementary Paradigms of Water and Sanitation Services: Lessons from the Finnish Experience. 10. Community Organization and Alternative Paradigms for Improving Water and Sanitation in Deprived Settlements. Section 2: Country and Regional Experiences Developed Countries. European Cases. 11. Decentralization and Delegation of Water and Sanitation Services in France. 12. The State of Urban Water Supply and Sanitation in Spain: Issues, Debates and Conflicts. 13. Decentralized Services: the Nordic Experience. 14. The Development of Water Services in Europe: from Diversity to Convergence? North American Cases. 15. 'From East to Western sea'. Canada: A Country of National Abundance and Local Shortages. 16. The U.S. Experience on Water Supply and Sanitation: The Interaction between Public Policy and Management. The 'Global South' African and Asian Cases. 17. Discrimination by Default - The Post-colonial Heritage of Urban Water Provision in East Africa. 18. The South Asian Experience - Financial Arrangements for Facilitating Local Participation in WSS Interventions in Poor Urban Areas: Lessons from Bangladesh and Nepal. 19. Water and Sanitation Services in China: Current Problems and Potential Solutions. Latin American Cases. 20. Water and Sanitation Policies in Brazil: Historical Inequalities and Institutional Change. 21. Challenges Facing the Universal Access of Water and Sanitation in Mexico.