This working paper examines the role of Private Water Vendors (PWV) in supplying water to urban dwellers in city of Karachi, Pakistan. The increasing gap in the water supply-demand in Karachi has meant that communities especially the urban poor have had to rely on alternate suppliers i.e....

The challenge to manage the allocation of water efficiently and equably will become a dominant theme of the new millennium. At a time when the cost of obtaining fresh water is rising throughout the globe, Terence Lee analyses the means for establishing and operating effective water markets. He...