'The Global Corruption Report 2008 examines the link between corruption and the water sector in a comprehensive manner. It documents a wide range of corruption risks in different areas of the sector, from water resources management and water for sanitation to irrigation and hydropower.'
Source: Transparency International
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'A summary of WaterAid’s report reviewing the origins, performance and demise of the Government of Tanzania’s short-lived experiment where it leased Dar es Salaam’s water infrastructure to City Water Services Ltd.'
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More than 1.1 billion people lack access to safe water, and 2.6 billion lack accesses to basic sanitation. The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) include a target to halve the fraction of the world’s population without access to water and sanitation by 2015. The world is roughly on course to reach the target for water supply, but will fall short by half a billion people in sanitation. Source: The World Bank
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Creating an integrated water resource management system: Mexico's Water Resources Management Project
'During the past several decades, the demands placed on Mexico's water resources increased dramatically largely due to rapid population growth. Although these regions came to account for close to 90 percent of gross domestic product and over three-quarters of the population, they received less than a third of total runoff. This made these areas extremely vulnerable to major surface and groundwater shortages, with profound implications for further economic development. In the early 1990s, the Gov more...
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'This paper explores two propositions regarding international river basins: 1) cooperative development of international rivers offers unique economic advantages over unilateral development; and 2) benefit sharing is a necessary condition for facilitating this cooperation. Despite the intuitive appeal of benefit sharing, clear benchmarks and good practices in structuring agreeable benefit sharing arrangements are lacking. Lessons from past experience are critical for guiding emerging regional ins more...
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'The right to water and sanitation has been taken up at the national level in many countries such as in the South Africa constitution.This led into the presentation of Hameda Deedat, a Gender, Trade and Water Activist with from South Africa with Umzabalaso We Jubilee. She acknowledged that World Bank policy has been shifting on the privatization of water systems, which is welcome by civil society. However, she asserted that World Bank should take this a step further to acknowledge water beyond i more...
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'A pilot project to improve water services and sanitation infrastructure in Swaziland's rural schools has been so successful that the UN Children's Fund (UNICEF), the Swazi government and other health sector organisations are considering expanding it nationally.The project was launched last year in Shiselweni region in the south and Lubombo in the east, as a way of improving water delivery to schoolchildren.'
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