| Water and Sanitation in the World's Cities: Local Action for Global Goals Contributor(s): Un-Habitat (Author) |
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ISBN: 1844070042 ISBN-13: 9781844070046 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $54.44 Product Type: Paperback Published: March 2003 Annotation: The world??'s governments agreed at the Millennium Summit to halve the number of people who lack access to safe water, mainly in the world??'s cities, by 2015. With rapidly growing urban populations the challenge is immense.This is a comprehensive and authoritative assessment of the problems and how they can be addressed. It sets out in detail the scale of inadequate provision of water and sanitation; it describes the impacts on health and economic performance, showing the potential gains of remedial action; it analyzes the proximate and underlying causes of poor provision and identifies information gaps affecting resource allocation; it outlines the consequences of further deterioration; and it explains how resources and institutional capacities -- public, private, and community -- can be used to deliver proper services through integrated water resource management. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Political Science | Public Policy - City Planning & Urban Development - Technology & Engineering | Environmental - Water Supply - Political Science | Public Policy - Regional Planning |
| Dewey: 363.610 |
| LCCN: 2003002259 |
| Physical Information: 0.77" H x 8.24" W x 11.16" (2.20 lbs) 300 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 'This is surely the most impressive and important publication to come out of the UN system for many years.' Peter Adamson, founder, New Internationalist, and author and researcher of UNICEF's The State of the World's Children from 1980 to 1995 The world's governments agreed at the Millennium Summit to halve, by 2015, the number of people who lack access to safe water. With rapidly growing urban populations the challenge is immense. Water and Sanitation in the World's Cities is a comprehensive and authoritative assessment of the problems and how they can be addressed. This influential publication by the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-HABITAT) sets out in detail the scale of inadequate provision of water and sanitation. It describes the impacts on health and economic performance, showing the potential gains of remedial action; it analyses the proximate and underlying causes of poor provision and identifies information gaps affecting resource allocation; it outlines the consequences of further deterioration; and it explains how resources and institutional capacities - public, private and community - can be used to deliver proper services through integrated water resource management. |
