This publication discusses the challenges faced in accelerating access to improved water and sanitation services beyond the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) targets. It examines the private sector provision of piped water services and on-site sanitation services in rural areas and small towns,...

Water, policy and procedure -- Water resource availability in Britain -- Institutions and legislation for resource management -- The catchment approach : ways and means -- Sustaining bulk supply : consumption and interference -- Sustaining bulk supply : possible solutions -- Water quality...

Why water politics matters -- Contested waters: the politics of supply -- Clean, green, and costly: water quality -- The water-energy-food nexus -- Drought, flood, and everything in-between -- Water rights and water wrongs -- International cooperation -- Water conflicts -- Tapping into toilets:...

Water in the Middle East and North Africa region already causes major social and economic problems, resulting from insufficient supply, unreliable services and environmental damage. Per capita availability will fall by half by 2050, water quality is deteriorating, many aquifers are on the verge...

"This book explores and interrogates the food-water-energy nexus, arguably the most crucial factor in sustaining India's economic development. The book sheds light on different experiences faced in states across India, including the consequences of electricity tariff reforms and related policies...