A better understanding of household water use in developing countries is necessary to
manage and expand water systems more effectively. Several meta-analyzes have examined …

▪ Abstract This review examines experience with private-sector participation (PSP) in the
water supply and sanitation (W&S) sector. Common ideological, theoretical, and practical …

This paper reports the main findings of a multi-country research project designed to develop
a better understanding of the performance of community-managed rural water supply …

Access to basic water service and basic sanitation service has been acknowledged as
fundamental human rights. It also has been mentioned in UN Sustainable Development …

This paper argues that there are many challenges to designing and implementing water and
sanitation interventions that actually deliver economic benefits to the households in …

Over the past two decades, hundreds of stated preference studies have been conducted in
less-developed countries. This article examines what has been learned on the …

Despite recent progress extending access to drinking water supplies globally, ensuring long-
term functionality of rural water infrastructure remains challenging. Past research on rural …

The water tariffs currently in use in most cities in South Asia are not accomplishing their
principal objectives. They are not generating sufficient revenues to ensure that utilities can …

The Millennium Development Goals, adopted at the UN Millennium Summit in 2000, are the
world's targets for dramatically reducing extreme poverty in its many dimensions by 2015 …

Water-supply programs consist of three essential components: technology, people, and
institutions. The interface of these facets determines whether a particular scheme is …