Elsa D. Mejia is General Manager of the Inpart Waterworks and Development Company (IWADCO), a family enterprise that started as a small construction company specializing in the production of water tanks for small towns and municipalities in and around Metro Manila, Philippines. During the 1990s, IWADCO (then known as Inpart Engineering) invested US$350,000 over a 5-year [...]

US consumer and anti-water privatisation activist group, Food & Water Watch, has released a new brief on water multinational Biwater in its corporate profile series. This brief details the “failures” of Biwater’s global activity, giving particular reference to the recent Initial Public Offering (IPO) of their Cascal subsidiary. It provides a summary of Biwater’s [...]

Rees, J.A., Winpenny, J. and Hall, A.W (2008). Water financing and governance. (TEC background papers ; no. 12). Stockholm, Sweden, Global Water Partnership. 56 p. ISBN: 978-91-58321-70-4 Download here Traditionally, within the water sector, financing issues have not had a high profile and are mostly related to supply side investments. This is no longer sufficient as population growth, [...]

Rees, J.A., Winpenny, J. and Hall, A.W (2008). Water financing and governance. (TEC background papers ; no. 12). Stockholm, Sweden, Global Water Partnership. 56 p. ISBN: 978-91-58321-70-4 Download here Traditionally, within the water sector, financing issues have not had a high profile and are mostly related to supply side investments. This is no longer sufficient as population growth, [...]

The Global Development Network is now accepting submissions for its annual competition for development research proposals/papers and development projects. The finalists win cash prizes and a round-trip air fare with all boarding and lodging expenses paid to travel to a different country where the finalists present their proposals/papers and showcase an interesting project on any development [...]

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Asian Development Bank (ADB) President Haruhiko Kuroda unveiled a seven-point agenda to prioritize water investments in the Asia-Pacific region in a speech held at the World Cities Summit in Singapore. Kuroda said that the ADB aims to help countries in the region boost new water investments to $20 billion to improve water security. “In our recently [...]

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Theme: Leadership for Local Governance, Development and the Delivery of MDGs in Africa Sub-themes include: Innovative practices in the provision of basic services at the local level The MDGs in Africa One of the Special Workshops will be on the UCLGA/WISA Water Programme. UCLGA and the Water Institute of Southern Africa (WISA), signed an MOU for a five year partnership [...]

This video [in French] titled “L’eau en mode decentralise”, presents the activities of the project “Support for the decentralisation of hydraulics management in the region of Gao (PADH)”, implemented by Belgian Technical Cooperation (BTC) in northern Mali. Gao, in the North of Mali, is located in a semi-desert region. The number of drinking wells is insufficient [...]

Norconsult, a prominent consultant firm in the Norwegian aid market, will no longer bid for contracts managed by local authorities in Tanzania due to widespread corruption. The findings of a new audit, revealing irregular payments to several projects, have made the company decide to close down its local subsidiary Norconsult Tanzania Ltd (NTZ), and to fire [...]

This new website, launched on Thursday 12 June, reveals how more and more water services are returning to public management, with news that water in the city of Paris will be returned to public control by 2009. The site will track the “remunicipalisation” of cities, regions and entire countries around the world, providing case studies from [...]

International Water Security: Domestic Threats and Opportunities Edited by Nevelina I. Pachova, Mikiyasu Nakayama and Libor Jansky ISBN 978-92-808-1150-6 308 pages; paper; US$35.00 March 2008 More information National sovereignty and security considerations have long constrained the reasonable, equitable and sustainable utilization of international water courses. With post-Cold War democratization and globalization on the rise, domestic actors have an increasingly important role [...]

The set of materials entitled ?Local Government and Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM)? aims to assist Local Governments with active participation in IWRM. The information provided addresses both the theory and practice of developing and implementing a process through which the IWRM principles of social equity, economic efficiency and environmental sustainability can be applied. The materials [...]

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The set of materials entitled “Local Government and Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM)” aims to assist Local Governments with active participation in IWRM. The information provided addresses both the theory and practice of developing and implementing a process through which the IWRM principles of social equity, economic efficiency and environmental sustainability can be applied. The materials [...]

As part of its program, the Government of Sri Lanka embarked in 2001-2002 in the preparation of a series of sector reforms to improve its capacity to provide for new investments and improve the operation and maintenance of existing ones. The Asian Development Bank (ADB) provided technical assistance (TA) to: (i) developing adequate legislation and guidelines to [...]