mutations in space and time, which impact on the degree of satisfaction of water needs in the world, and which call for a new … analysis of the water issue. This new perspective, in this context of increased uncertainties, means that this has to be put … into question. It involves, first, to have understood and assimilated the crucial role played by water in its natural …

Water scarcity is a characteristic of north-western states of India, such as Gujarat. Over time, the continuous … lead to the deterioration of the water service in the city. In the meantime, the water demand has considerably increased … due to the improvement of standards of living. This has resulted in an increasing pressure on underground water resources …

the BASIC countries (Brazil, South Africa, India and China) in this indeterminacy. Mobilising the analytical tools of …

This article presents our research on a well-documented stylized fact : the social construction of water scarcity …. Starting with the hypothesis that the study of water use standards offers a relevant frame of reference to deal with scarcity …, this proposai suggests that water use is directly linked with the social representations of water. This analysis is based …

In this paper, we aim to assess the relationship between water and sanitation coverage and saved infant lives. Our …

come from the water sector. …

This paper is based on fieldwork on the small-scale water providers in the peri-urban areas of Mumbai. It tries to … explain why small-scale water providers have appeared there, what type of service they provide and why they have succeeded …, where the municipalities have failed. The objective is to examine to what extent small-scale water providers activities are …

the national level, while the water authority generally has to internalize the negative externalities of water extraction …