Volume 43. Issue 2
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Notes on Contributors
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Preface
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Introduction: 'Some for All Rather than More for Some'? Contested Pathways and Politics since the 1990 New Delhi Statement
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2012)This introduction reviews the experience of the water and sanitation sector since the 1990 New Delhi Statement – Some for All Rather than More for Some. It explores the policy pathways and contested politics that took place ... -
Barriers and Opportunities for Sanitation and Water for All, as Envisaged by the New Delhi Statement
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2012)Today, 884 million people lack access to water and 2.6 billion lack access to sanitation. In the past 20 years, there has been important progress made in these areas at the international level. But despite some milestones, ... -
Some for All Rather Than More for Some: A Myth or a Reality?
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Anti?Privatisation Debates, Opaque Rules and ‘Privatised’ Water Services Provision: Some Lessons from Indonesia
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2012)Anti?privatisation debates dominate Indonesia's contemporary water discourse. This has culminated in attempts at invalidating the Water Law through a Judicial Review. Finally rejected by the Constitutional Court, the law ... -
Pipe Dreams? The Governance of Urban Water Supply in Informal Settlements, New Delhi
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2012)This article explores two trends which exemplify recent research and thinking in service delivery: first, understanding the role of small?scale informal providers and second, understanding the politics and governance of ... -
Swajaldhara: ‘Reversed’ Realities in Rural Water Supply in India
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2012)For the last two decades and more, nations, international organisations and civil society, both local and global, have been rallying for the cause of ‘efficient’ and ‘equitable’ water supply and distribution. To this end, ... -
Enabling or Disabling? Reflections on the Ethiopian National WASH Inventory Process
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2012)The New Delhi Statement of 1990 called for universal water supply coverage by the year 2000, a goal that was later replaced by the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and the timeframe of 2015. As we are fast approaching ... -
Redefining Water Security through Social Reproduction: Lessons Learned from Rajasthan's ‘Ocean of Sand’
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2012)One of the most urgent challenges facing the world today is ensuring local water security under rapid climate variability and change. This is of particular importance in a country like India, where over half of the people ... -
Closing the Gap between ‘Expert’ and ‘Lay’ Knowledge in the Governance of Wastewater: Lessons and Reflections from New Delhi
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2012)The wastewater crisis in megacities of the Global South is increasingly recognised. However, sector?driven approaches (of river pollution, sewerage, or city?wide drainage) have had limited success in tackling this multifaceted ... -
Is Water Policy the New Water Law? Rethinking the Place of Law in Water Sector Reforms
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2012)Water law and policy are in principle clearly distinct at the national and international levels. The former is binding while the latter is not. Yet, over the past two decades, the respective space of water law and water ... -
Negotiating Marginalities: Right to the City's Water
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2012)Failure of water?related planning in Delhi can in part be attributed to the lack of inter?agency coordination and cooperation. This inability of state and city agencies to work together results in fragmentation of the ... -
Sanitation: What's the Real Problem?
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2012)The vast number of people without sanitation raises the question why this is so. It cannot be a lack of adequate sanitation technologies as these exist for all situations from dispersed rural communities to high?density ... -
Equity and Inclusion in Sanitation and Hygiene in South Asia: A Regional Synthesis
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2012)Today, 2.6 billion people in the world have nowhere safely to defecate on a daily basis or to follow hygienic practices that are important for their health and wellbeing. People are different and require support to overcome ... -
Why not Basics for All? Scopes and Challenges of Community?led Total Sanitation
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2012)The ‘Some for All’ dictum may work well for the water sector but is not appropriate and workable for the sanitation sector. We live in a paradox of concern for water quality for drinking, while displaying less concern about ... -
Working Locally and Globally for Lasting Change: Linking Community Demand and Political Leadership
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Needs, Rights and Responsibilities in Water Governance: Some Reflections
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2012)This article discusses needs, rights and responsibilities with regard to water, drawing on global discourses and cases from South Africa. Taking the New Delhi and Dublin Statements as a point of departure, it describes the ... -
Glossary
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