Documents & Reports
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Climate change and urban water utilities : challenges and opportunities (English)
The impact of climate change is increasingly important for the design, construction, and maintenance of water sector infrastructure. Average global temperatures are on the rise, causing cycles of extreme...
Document Type: Brief Report No.: 55828 Document Date: June 1, 2010 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Danilenko,Alexander V.,Dickson,Eric,Jacobsen,Michael Peter Steen
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Tanzania - Public Expenditure Review (PER) of the water sector (English)
Tanzania initiated a forward-looking National Water Policy (NAWAPO-2002) to promote an integrated approach to water resources management and improve water supply and sanitation service (WSS) delivery in...
Document Type: Brief Report No.: 55281 Document Date: June 1, 2010 Disclosure Status: Disclosed
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Strategic environmental assessment : improving water resources governance and decision making (English)
The Sustainable Development Network (SDN) calls for elevating the environment into upstream processes such as policy, programmatic, and investment dialogue. In its 2002 environment strategy, the Bank committed...
Document Type: Brief Report No.: 55280 Document Date: June 1, 2010 Disclosure Status: Disclosed
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Using a private operator to establish a corporatized public water utility : the management contract for Johannesburg water (English)
In post-apartheid Johannesburg, South Africa, the city water authority had fallen into disarray (a common situation with urban services). In 2001, a Public-Private Partnership (PPP) emerged as a way to...
Document Type: Brief Report No.: 55276 Document Date: April 1, 2010 Disclosure Status: Disclosed
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Making a large irrigation scheme work : a case study from Mali (English)
Located in the heart of Mali, the Office du Niger (ON) is one of the oldest and largest irrigation schemes in Sub-Saharan Africa. The French, who began the scheme in 1932, planned on developing about 1,000,000...
Document Type: Brief Report No.: 55273 Document Date: April 1, 2010 Disclosure Status: Disclosed
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Directions in hydropower : scaling up for development (English)
After a period of stagnation, the story of hydropower infrastructure is changing. Emerging global dynamics are recasting the role and value of hydropower in development, recognizing its potential contribution...
Document Type: Brief Report No.: 55279 Document Date: April 1, 2010 Disclosure Status: Disclosed
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Overcoming drought in India : adaptation strategies for the state of Andhra Pradesh (English)
The study objectives were designed to enhance the state's capacity to assess long-term effects of drought and increase resilience to drought risks at state, district, and community levels. The process...
Document Type: Brief Report No.: 55272 Document Date: April 1, 2010 Disclosure Status: Disclosed
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Environmental flows in water resources policies, plans, and project : part one - findings and recommendations and part two : case studies (English)
Environmental flows are central to equitable distribution of and access to water and services provided by aquatic ecosystems. They refer to the quality, quantity, and timing of water flows required maintaining...
Document Type: Brief Report No.: 55275 Document Date: April 1, 2010 Disclosure Status: Disclosed
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Template for assessing the governance of public water supply and sanitation service providers : a tool for understanding water system effectiveness (English)
The template is a tool to assess the performance of an urban water supply and sanitation (WSS) service provide by taking into account the governance, policy, and management context it operates in. The...
Document Type: Brief Report No.: 55278 Document Date: April 1, 2010 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Locussol,Alain R.,Van Ginneken,Meike
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Public-private partnerships for urban water utilities : a review of experiences in developing countries (English)
Since 1990, many national and local governments in developing countries have contracted with private companies to operate or manage their water utilities under Public-Private Partnership (PPP) contracts...
Document Type: Brief Report No.: 55271 Document Date: April 1, 2010 Disclosure Status: Disclosed
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Environmental health and child survival (English)
Interest in environmental health has increased in recent years, largely because the most vulnerable groups remain disproportionately exposed to and affected by health risks from environmental hazards...
Document Type: Brief Report No.: 48724 Document Date: June 1, 2009 Disclosure Status: Disclosed
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Post-construction support and sustainability in community-managed rural water supply (English)
Water projects in developing countries are inaugurated with great fanfare by the governments, lenders, and sponsors that make them possible; the projects' results, however, don't always receive the publicity...
Document Type: Brief Report No.: 48727 Document Date: June 1, 2009 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Bakalian,Alexandre Edouard,Wakeman,Wendy E.
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Making the most of scarcity : accountability for better water management in the Middle East and North Africa (English)
Most of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) cannot meet current water demand. Many countries face full-blown crises, and the situation is likely to get even worse. Estimates show that per capita water...
Document Type: Brief Report No.: 48728 Document Date: June 1, 2009 Disclosure Status: Disclosed
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Public-private partnerships to reform urban water utilities in Western and Central Africa (English)
Western and Central Africa have lengthy experience with public-private partnerships (PPPs), both for water supply and for combined power and water supply utilities. Cote d'Ivoire's successful PPP dates...
Document Type: Brief Report No.: 48726 Document Date: May 1, 2009 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Fall,Matar,Marin,Philippe,Locussol,Alain R.
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Addressing China's water scarcity (English)
China's water resources are scarce and unevenly distributed. It has the sixth largest amount of renewable resources in the world, but a per capita availability that is only one-fourth the world average...
Document Type: Brief Report No.: 48725 Document Date: May 1, 2009 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Xie,Jian
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Securing water for agriculture : a guide to investment decisions (English)
How can the world grow more food, increase incomes, reduce poverty, and protect the environment with growing numbers of mouths to feed and increasingly constrained resources? A big part of the answer lies...
Document Type: Brief Report No.: 47932 Document Date: April 1, 2009 Disclosure Status: Disclosed
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Guiding principles for successful reforms of urban water supply and sanitation sectors (English)
The note proposes a methodology for assessing the accountability framework of an urban water supply and sanitation (WSS) sector that it defines as the set of actors, mandates, contractual arrangements...
Document Type: Brief Report No.: 47930 Document Date: April 1, 2009 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Locussol,Alain R.,Fall,Matar
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Monitoring and evaluating agricultural water management projects : better tools for better results (English)
Increasing agricultural production is necessary to feed growing populations, raise the incomes of poor farmers, and boost national export revenues. But in poor, water-scarce areas of the world, it is impossible...
Document Type: Brief Report No.: 47933 Document Date: April 1, 2009 Disclosure Status: Disclosed
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Handwashing programs for better hygiene (English)
The handwashing handbook advocates handwashing-with-soap programs to fight the spread of disease. It covers the following components: laying the foundation for a National Handwashing Program; understanding...
Document Type: Brief Report No.: 47934 Document Date: April 1, 2009 Disclosure Status: Disclosed
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Competition or cooperation? A new era for agricultural water management (English)
Reliable supplies of water for agriculture have helped meet rapidly rising demand for food in developing countries, making farms more profitable, reducing poverty, and helping vast regions of the world...
Report No.: 47931 Document Date: April 1, 2009 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Ward, Christopher , Dargouth, Salah , Minasyan,