Readings

A utility's pro-poor approach in Bangalore's slums

Guest lecture: Genevieve Connors, Urban Development Sector Unit, East Asia and Pacific Region, World Bank

Connors, Genevieve. "When Utilities Muddle Through: Pro-poor Governance in Bangalore's Public Water Sector." Environment and Urbanization 17, no. 1 (2005): 201-218.

Water and Sanitation Program. Connecting the Slums: A Utility's Approach in Bangalore. New Delhi, India: Water Sanitation Programme South Asia, 2006.

Cairncross, Sandy, and Richard Feachem. Environmental Health Engineering in the Tropics: An Introductory Text. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, 1993, chapter 1 and appendix C. ISBN: 9780471938859.

Mara, Duncan. Low Cost Urban Sanitation. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, 1996, chapter 2. ISBN: 9780471961635.

Esrey, S. A., R. G. Feachem, and J. M. Hughes. "Interventions for the Control of Diarrhoeal Diseases among Young Children: Improving Water Supplies and Excreta Disposal Facilities." Bulletin of the World Health Organization 63, no. 4 (1985): 757-772. (PDF - 1.0 MB)

Colford, John, Jr., and Lorna Fewtrell. "Water, Sanitation and Hygiene: Interventions and Diarrhoea: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis." Health, Nutrition and Population Discussion Paper, World Bank, 2004.

"Technical Brief No. 52: Water — Quality or Quantity?" Waterlines 22, no. 4 (2004): 15-18.

MacDonald, Alan, Jeff Davies, Roger Calow, and John Chilton. Developing Groundwater: A Guide for Rural Water Supply. London, UK: ITDG Publishing, 2005, chapters 3 and 4. ISBN: 9781853395963.

Howard, Guy, and Jamie Bartram. Domestic Water Quantity, Service Level and Health. World Health Organization, 2003.

World Health Organization. Combating Waterborne Disease at the Household Level. Geneva, Switzerland: World Health Organization, 2007, ISBN: 978921595223.

Nath, K. J., S. Bloomfield, and M. Jones. Household Water Storage, Handling and Point-of-use Treatment. International Scientific Forum on Home Hygiene, 2006, pp. 5 and 24-29. (PDF - 1.6 MB)

Murcott, S. Implementation, Critical Factors and Challenges to Scale-Up of Household Drinking Water Treatment and Safe Storage Systems. Background Paper on Household Water Treatment and Safe Storage (HWTS), 2006. (PDF). Also available through the USAID Hygiene Improvement Project.

Clasen, Thomas, and Sandy Cairncross. "Editorial: Household Water Management: Refining the Dominant Paradigm." Tropical Medicine and International Health 9, no. 2 (2004): 187-191.

Recommended readings

Wright, Jim, Stephen Gundry, and Ronan Conroy. "Household Drinking Water in Developing Countries: A Systematic Review of Microbiological Contamination between Source and Point-of-use." Tropical Medicine and International Health 9, no. 1 (2004): 106-117.

Gundry, Stephen, Ronan Conroy, and Jim Wright. "A Systematic Review of the Health Outcomes Related to Household Water Quality in Developing Countries." Journal of Water and Health 2 (2004): 1-13. (PDF)

Sobsey, Mark. Managing Water in the Home: Accelerated Health Gains from Improved Water Supply. (PDF) World Health Organization, 2002.

Sewage collection systems

Guest lecture: Earthea Nance, Virginia Tech

Institutional

Paul, Samuel. "Accountability in Public Services: Exit, Voice and Control." World Development 20, no. 7 (1992): 1047-1060.

Budds, Jessica, and Gordon McGranahan. "Are the Debates on Water Privatization Missing the Point? Experiences from Africa, Asia and Latin America." Environment and Urbanization 15, no. 2 (2003): 87-113.

Davis, J., et al. "Local Government: Kerala, India." In Good Governance in the Water and Sanitation Sector: Experience from South Asia. New Delhi, India: Water and Sanitation Program. 2001.

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Stakeholders

Lovei, L., et al. "Rent-Extracting Behavior by Multiple Agents in the Provision of Municipal Water Supply: A Study of Jakarta, Indonesia." Water Resources Research 29, no. 7 (1993): 1965-1974.

Davis, J. "Corruption in Public Services: Experience from South Asia's Water and Sanitation Sector." World Development 32, no. 1 (2004): 53-71.

Regmi, S., and B. Fawcett. "Integrating Gender Needs into Drinking-water Projects in Nepal." Gender and Development 7, no. 3 (1999): 62-72.

Evolution of W&S: supply vs. demand

Garn, H. Lessons from Large-scale Rural Water and Sanitation Projects: Transition and Innovation. Washington, DC: The World Bank, 1997.

McPhail, A. "The 'Five Percent Rule' for Improved Water Service: Can Households Afford More?" World Development 21, no. 6 (1993): 963-973.

"Willing to Pay but Unwilling to Charge: Do Willingness-to-pay Studies Make a Difference?" Water and Sanitation Program, 1999.

Privatization

Birdsall, Nancy, and John Nellis. "Winners and Losers: Assessing the Distributional Impact of Privatization." World Development 31, no. 10 (2003): 1617-1633.

Balanyá, Belén, Brid Brennan, Olivier Hoedeman, Satoko Kishimoto, and Philipp Terhorst. Reclaiming Public Water: Achievements, Struggles and Visions from Around the World. Transnational Institute and Corporate Europe Observatory, 2005. ISBN: 9789071007101.

Water and sanitation financing

Guest lecture: Prof. Peter Rogers, Harvard University

Rogers, Peter, Radhika de Silva, and Ramesh Bhatia. "Water as an Economic Good: How to Use Prices to Promote Equity, Efficiency and Sustainability." Water Policy 4 (2002): 1-17.

Rogers, Peter, Ramesh Bhatia, and Annette Huber. "Water as a Social and Economic Good: How to Put Principle into Practice." Technical Advisory Committee, Global Water Partnership. TAC Background Paper No. 2, 1998.

Cutler, David, and Grant Miller. "The Role of Public Health Improvements in Health Advances: The Twentieth-Century United States." Demography 42, no. 1 (2005): 1-22.

Hutton, Guy, and Laurence Haller. "Evaluation of the Costs and Benefits of Water and Sanitation Improvements at the Global Level." Water, Sanitation, and Health, Protection of the Human Environment, World Health Organization, Geneva, 2004. (PDF)

Recommended readings

Davis, Jennifer. 11.479 Tutorial 1: Principles of Microeconomics. (PDF) (Courtesy of Jennifer Davis. Used with permission.)

McPhail, Alexander. "The 'Five Percent Rule' for Improved Water Service: Can Households Afford More?" World Development 21, no. 6 (1993): 963-973.

Whittington, Dale, Subhrendu Pattanayak, Jui-Chen Yang, and K. C. Bal Kumar. "Household Demand for Improved Piped Water Services: Evidence from Kathmandu, Nepal." Water Policy 4 (2002): 531-536.

Pattanayak, Subhrendu, Jui-Chen Yang, Dale Whittington, and K. C. Bal Kumar. "Coping With Unreliable Public Water Supplies: Averting Expenditures by Households in Kathmandu, Nepal." Water Resources Research 41 (2005).

Whittington, Dale, Donald Lauria, Vimalanand Prabhu, and Joe Cook. "An Economic Reappraisal of the Melamchi Water Supply Project - Kathmandu, Nepal." Portuguese Economic Journal 3 (2004): 157-178.

Whittington, Dale. "Municipal Water Pricing and Tariff Design: A Reform Agenda for South Asia." Water Policy 5 (2003): 61-76.