|
| Title: |
Council
vows to reject water charge hike |
| Description: |
The City Council promised on Thursday
that it would reject a proposal by city-owned water
utility PAM Jaya and its foreign partners to increase
water charges, citing the bad service and poor water
quality provided to consumers. (Jakarta Post –
25 October 2002) |
| Date added: |
26 Oct, 2002 |
|
| Title: |
Water
quality through surveillance: the real test |
| Description: |
Faced with such a large public health
problem, the Government of Indonesia decided
to mount a national programme on Drinking Water
Quality Surveillance (DWQS). (WHO-World water day
2001) |
| Date added: |
26 Oct, 2002 |
|
| Title: |
Urban
Poor: Expanding Water and Sanitation Services in
Johannesburg |
| Description: |
Johannesburg Water, an independent
private utility company wholly owned by the City
of Johannesburg, is replacing illegal yard standpipe
connections with prepaid meters, ensuring for all
township residents access to a monthly allocation
of 6,000 litres of free water. (Official website
city of Johannesburg) |
| Date added: |
23 Oct, 2002 |
|
| Title: |
To
privatise, or not to privatise, water in India |
| Description: |
Watershed management expert Vijay Paranjpye sorts
out the tangle over water privatisation, and insists
that privatisation of public utilities can be resorted
to only if the government completely fails to manage
the utility, and if private management is going
to make the utility cheaper for the people.
(InfoChange News & Features, September 2002
) |
| Date added: |
23 Oct, 2002 |
|
| Title: |
The
launch of a South African – Brazilian public-public
partnership |
| Description: |
Five public water service provider organizations
came together at the World Summit on Sustainable
Development (WSSD) to jointly sign a declaration
committing themselves to a Public-Public Collaboration
which seeks to strengthen the role of the international
public sector. (Joint declaration during WSSD Johannesburg,
September 2002) |
| Date added: |
23 Oct, 2002 |
|
| Title: |
Building
the capacity of the regulator in Ghana |
| Description: |
Ghana is one of the countries where private sector
involvement in water services is progressing and
is still hotly debated |
| Date added: |
23 Oct, 2002 |
|
| Title: |
Rainwater
harvesting in Bangalore |
| Description: |
With groundwater levels fast depleting, rooftop
rainwater harvesting makes sound ecological and
financial sense. Bangalore seems to have taken the
lead in this form of water harvesting and has even
set up a special Rainwater Club
(Signs of Hope, September 2002) |
| Date added: |
23 Oct, 2002 |
|
| Title: |
Water
for Life, a global initiative to achieve World Summit
goals |
| Description: |
The EU Water Initiative has been developed in
a multi-stakeholder process and is open to all partners
and regions. It aims to improve the efficiency of
existing financing mechanisms through better coordination.
(EEP Newsletter 16 September 2002) |
| Date added: |
23 Oct, 2002 |
|
| Title: |
Water
and Poverty Workshop calls for move from talk to
action |
| Description: |
Addressing the water security needs of the poor
is a top priority in water management and there
is an urgent need to focus on actions that put this
into practice. (ADB website, 14 October) |
| Date added: |
23 Oct, 2002 |
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