Here is explored corporate governance role in privatised water companies in emerging economies. Private parts contracts are periodically renegotiated due to externalities and information asymmetries. In this context, governance mechanisms are of critical importance as illustrated in the case...

Faced with a well-documented fresh water crisis in many parts of the world, international institutions are advocating market-based solutions involving the privatization and commodification of water. The definition of water as a commodity by multilateral organizations in the early 1990s allowed a...

Many problems faced by the South are rooted as much in longstanding social, economic and environmental difficulties as in the dearth of appropriate engineering solutions. Constraints range from the institutional, to the cultural, to the technological and spatial. Engineers engage with these...

The professional ideology of engineers is said to be rooted in feelings of self-importance and a belief in an ability to lead, based on qualities of technical expertise and rational decision-making not held by the public at large. This paper outlines the views of another group of engineers,...