Describes the World Bank's 24 years of lending experience in urban development and makes recommendations for improving urban services, public health... Read more...
Political pressure drives the majority of decentralization efforts in developing countries. Read more...
Describes a process for formulating water resources strategies and relates major aspects of comprehensive water resources management to that process. Read more...
This book advances a practical approach to finding a balance between maintaining economic growth and preserving the environment and natural resources... Read more...
This diary aims to offer local government (in South Africa) some basic information on water services provision, some principles of best practice in... Read more...
This textbook for water purification and treatment works is aimed at engineers who design these plants, the personnel of existing water purification... Read more...
In order to alleviate conditions in the slums that constitute 40 % of the urban population in India, the capacity of the people to help themselves... Read more...
A 1995 Pacific Institute report, California Water 2020: A Sustainable Vision, offered compelling support for the argument that alternative approaches... Read more...