Water and Sanitation Infrastructure Planning in Developing Countries

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———. Low Cost Urban Sanitation . Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, 1996, chapters 6 and 7. ISBN: 9780471961635.

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Harleman, D., and S. Murcott. “Rebuttal by Harleman and Murcott to Parker et al. Discussion Paper: ‘The Future of Chemically Enhanced Primary Treatment: Evolution Not Revolution.’” Water 21: Magazine of the International Water Association (June 2001).

Rogers, Peter, Radhika de Silva, and Ramesh Bhatia. “Water as an Economic Good: How to Use Prices to Promote Equity, Efficiency and Sustainability.” Water Policy 4 (2002): 1-17.

Rogers, Peter, Ramesh Bhatia, and Annette Huber. “Water as a Social and Economic Good: How to Put Principle into Practice.” Technical Advisory Committee, Global Water Partnership. TAC Background Paper No. 2, 1998.

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Whittington, Dale, Subhrendu Pattanayak, Jui-Chen Yang, and K. C. Bal Kumar. “Household Demand for Improved Piped Water Services: Evidence from Kathmandu, Nepal.” Water Policy 4 (2002): 531-536.

Pattanayak, Subhrendu, Jui-Chen Yang, Dale Whittington, and K. C. Bal Kumar. “Coping With Unreliable Public Water Supplies: Averting Expenditures by Households in Kathmandu, Nepal.” Water Resources Research 41 (2005).

Whittington, Dale, Donald Lauria, Vimalanand Prabhu, and Joe Cook. “An Economic Reappraisal of the Melamchi Water Supply Project - Kathmandu, Nepal.” Portuguese Economic Journal 3 (2004): 157-178.

Whittington, Dale. “Municipal Water Pricing and Tariff Design: A Reform Agenda for South Asia.” Water Policy 5 (2003): 61-76.

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Whittington, D., S. K. Pattanayak, J. C. Yang, and K. C. B. Kumar. “Household Demand for Improved Piped Water Services: Evidence from Kathmandu, Nepal.” Water Policy 4 (2002): 531-556.

Whittington, D., D. T. Dauria, V. Prabhu, and J. Cook. “An Economic Reappraisal of the Melamchi Water Supply Project — Kathmandu, Nepal.” Portuguese Economic Journal 3 (2004): 157-178.

Pattanayak, S., J. C. Yang, D. Whittington, and K. C. B. Kumar. “Coping with Unreliable Public Water Supplies: Averting Expenditures by Households in Kathmandu, Nepal.” Water Resources Research 41, no. 2 (2005).

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Solo, Tova Maria. “Small-Scale Entrepreneurs in the Urban Water and Sanitation Market.” Environment and Urbanization 11, no. 1 (1999): 117-131.

Chaplin, Susan E. “Cities, Sewers, and Poverty: India’s Politics of Sanitation.” Environment and Urbanization 11, no. 1 (1999): 145-158.

Heller, Leo. “Who Really Benefits from Environmental Sanitation Services in the Cities? An Intra-Urban Analysis in Betim, Brazil.” Environment and Urbanization 11, no. 1 (1999): 133-144.

Kolsky, Pete. “Engineers and Urban Malaria: Part of the Solution, or Part of the Problem?” Environment and Urbanization 11, no. 1 (1999): 159-163.

Pritchett, Lant, and Michael Woolcock. “Solutions When the Solution is the Problem: Arraying the Disarray in Development.” World Development 32, no. 2 (2004): 191-212.

Nance, Earthea B., and Leonard Ortolano. “Community Participation in Urban Sanitation: Experiences in Northeastern Brazil.” Journal of Planning Education and Research 26, no. 3 (2007): 284-300.

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American Water Works Association. Water Quality and Treatment Handbook . New York, NY: McGraw-Hill, Inc, 1999. ISBN: 9780070016590.

Tchobanoglous, George, and H. David Stensel. Wastewater Engineering: Treatment and Reuse . New York, NY: McGraw-Hill, 2002. ISBN: 9780070418783.

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World Health Organization and UNICEF. Global Water Supply and Sanitation Assessment . Excerpts, 2000.

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Davis, J. “Corruption in Public Services: Experience from South Asia’s Water and Sanitation Sector.” World Development 32, no. 1 (2004): 53-71.

James, A., J. Verhagen, C. van Wijk, R. Nanavaty, M. Parikh, and M. Bhatt. “Transforming Time into Money using Water: A Participatory Study of Economics and Gender in Rural India.” Natural Resources Forum 26 (2002): 205-217.

Davis, J. “Private-sector Participation in Water Supply and Sanitation: A Review of Experience.” Forthcoming in Annual Review of Environment and Resources. 2005, Sections 1 and 2.

Spiller, W., and P. Savedoff. “Government Opportunism and the Provision of Water.” Chapter 1 in Spilled Water: Institutional Commitment in the Provision of Water Services . Washington, DC: Inter-American Development Bank, 1999. ISBN: 1886938563.

Pathak, B. “Sanitation is the Key to Healthy Cities.” Environment and Urbanization 11, no. 1 (1999): 221-229.

Parkinson, J., and K. Tayler. “Decentralized Wastewater Management in Peri-Urban Areas in Low-Income Countries.” Environment and Urbanization 15, no. 1 (2003): 75-89.

Davis, J., et. al. “Local Government: Kerala, India.” Section 4 in Good Governance in the Water and Sanitation Sector: Experience from South Asia . New Delhi, India: Water and Sanitation Program, 2001.

McPhail, A. “The ‘Five Percent Rule’ for Improved Water Service: Can Households Afford More?” World Development 21, no. 6 (1993): 963-973.

Whittington, D., J. Davis, H. Miarsono, and R. Pollard. “Designing a ‘Neighborhood Deal’ for Urban Sewers: A Case Study of Semarang, Indonesia.” Journal of Planning Education and Research 19 (2000): 297-308.

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Recommended for Case Study

Zaroff, Barbara, and Daniel A. Okun. “Water Vending in Developing Countries.” Aqua, no. 5 (1984): 289-295.

Nance, E. “Innovating with Condominial Sewer Technology.” Chapter 2 in Putting Participation in Context: An Evaluation of Urban Sanitation in Brazil . Ph. D. Dissertation, Stanford University Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, 2004.

Sinnatamby, G. “Low Cost Sanitation.” In The Poor Die Young. Edited by S. Cairncross, J. Hardoy, and D. Satterthwaite. London, UK: Earthscan, 1990. ISBN: 1853830194.

Crane, R. “Water Markets, Market Reform and the Urban Poor: Results From Jakarta, Indonesia.” World Development 22, no. 1 (1994): 71-83.

Davis, J., S. Tankha, A. Ghosh, P. Martin, T. Samad, B. Zia, and G. Prunier. “Ahmedabad: The Slum Networking Program.” Section 3 in Good Governance the Water and Sanitation Sector: Experience from South Asia . New Delhi, India: Water and Sanitation Program. (Forthcoming.)

Gomez-Lobo, A. “Making Water Affordable: Output-based Consumption Subsidies in Chile.” In Contracting for Public Services: Output-based Aid and its Applications . Edited by P. Brooks, and S. Smith. Washington, DC: The World Bank, 2001. ISBN: 0821350072.

Isham, J., et. al. “Does Participation Improve Performance? Establishing Causality with Subjective Data.” World Bank Economic Review 9, no. 2 (1995): 175-200.

Jaglin, S. “The Right to Water versus Cost Recovery: Participation, Urban Water Supply and the Poor in Sub-Saharan Africa.” Environment and Urbanization 14, no. 1 (2002): 232-245.

Khwaja, A. I. “Can Good Projects Succeed in Bad Communities? Collective Action in Public Good Provision.” Unpublished Manuscript, Harvard University, 2002. (Notes: Focus on the ‘Intuition’ sections in the Presentation of the Econometric Model. Our discussion will largely center on Sections 5 and 6.)

Davis, J. “Private-sector Participation in Water Supply and Sanitation: A Review of Experience.” Forthcoming in Annual Review of Environment and Resources . 2005.

Nickson, A., and C. Vargas. “The Limitations of Water Regulation: The Failure of the Cochabama Concession in Bolivia.” Bulletin of Latin American Research 21, no. 1 (2002): 99-120.

Clarke, G., and C. Menard. “Measuring the Welfare Effects of Reform: Urban Water Supply in Guinea.” World Development 30, no. 9 (2002): 1517-1537. (Note: Don’t worry about the statistical analysis; just focus on the main ideas.)

Mehta, L., and B. Madsen. “The General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) and Poor People’s Right to Water.” IDS Bulletin 35, no. 1: 92-102.

McGranahan, G., and D. Satterthwaite. “Environmental Health or Ecological Sustainability? Reconciling the Brown and Green Agendas in Urban Development.” In Planning in Cities: Sustainability and Growth in the Developing World. Edited by R. Zetter, and R. London. London: ITDG, 2002. ISBN: 1853395439.

Esrey, S., et. al. Ecological Sanitation . Stockholm, Sweden: Sida, 1998. ISBN: 9158676120.