Globalized Water presents a compilation of voices that forms a unique scientific exploration of contemporary water management models and governance issues. The book describes the water paradox-how a local resource has become a global product-and the implications of this in how we identify...

Wasser ist ein lebensnotwendiges Gut. Traditionell werden in Deutschland allerdings nicht nur Regelungen der Verfügungsrechte vorgenommen, vielmehr haben die Städte, Kreise und gemeinden auch die technischen Aufgaben der Ver- und Entsorgung übernommen. Der Band geht der Frage nach, ob der...

The objective of this research is to capture householders' views and experiences related to drinking water and domestic wastewater treatment systems (DWWTS), including public health concerns and experience accessing the septic tank remediation grant. Capturing data on the level of maintenance...

Water supply, gender, gender mainstreaming, development, gender impact, infrastructure, conflict region. - Development projects nowadays are increasingly carried out in (post-) conflict regions, pretending to reduce the reasons for conflict and to foster sustainable development, which...

Water Conflicts applies cutting-edge thinking to identify pathways that can transform complex water conflicts. It challenges existing power-blind and politics-lite analysis that is very deeply-held and recurring in debates that suggest causal links between scarcity and violence-or peace. This...