1st Edition
Sustainable Water and Sanitation Services The Life-Cycle Cost Approach to Planning and Management
1. Introduction
V. Ratna Reddy, Catarina Fonseca and Charles Batchelor
2. WASH Sector in India: The Policy Context
V. Kurian Baby and V. Ratna Reddy
3. Life-Cycle Cost Approach: An Analytical Framework for WASH Sector
V. Ratna Reddy, Catarina Fonseca and Charles Batchelor
4. Unit Costs and Service Levels: Region and Technology-wise
V. Ratna Reddy, M. Venkataswamy and M. Snehalatha
5. Explaining Inter-Village Variations in Drinking Water Provision: Factors Influencing Costs and Service Levels in Rural Andhra Pradesh
V. Ratna Reddy
6. Rural Sanitation and Hygiene: Economic and Institutional Aspects of Sustainable Services
V. Ratna Reddy
7. Nirmal Gram Puraskar and Sanitation Service Levels: Curse of Slippage
M. Snehalatha, V. Anitha Raj, P. Bhushan and M. Venkataswamy
8. Cost of Provision and Managing WASH Services in Peri-Urban Areas
G. Alivelu, V. Ratna Reddy, P. Bhushan and V. Anitha Raj
9. Skewed and Inequitable Access to Rural Water Supply and Sanitation Services
M.Snehalatha and James Batchelor
10. How can Water Security be Improved in Water Scarce Areas of Rural India?
Charles Batchelor, James Batchelor and M. Snehalatha
11. Assessing Progress towards Sustainable Service Delivery in India: Lessons for Rural Water Supply
A.J. James
12. Transparency, Accountability and Participation (TAP): Understanding Governance in Rural WASH Sector
M.V. Rama Chandrudu. Safa Fanaian and R. Subramanyam Naidu
13. Decentralized Governance and Sustainable Service Delivery: A Case of Nenmeni Rural Water Supply Scheme, Kerala, India
P.K. Kurian, V. Kurian Baby and Terry Thomas
14. Provision of Sustainable WASH Services: Policy Options and Imperatives
V. Ratna Reddy, Catarina Fonseca and Charles Batchelor
Biography
Livelihoods and Natural Resources Management Institute (LNRMI) is an independent institution based in Hyderabad, India, aiming at conducting high quality research and consultancy in the area of human livelihoods and natural resource management.
IRC International Water and Sanitation Centre (IRC), The Hague, Netherlands, seeks to bridge the knowledge gap through joint learning with partners for improved, low-cost water supply, sanitation and hygiene in developing couries.
The Centre for Economic and Social Studies (CESS), Hyderabad, India conducts interdisciplinary research in analytical and applied areas of social sciences, encompassing socio-economic and other aspects of development.
Watershed Support Services and Activities Network (WASSAN) in Secunderabad, India works towards bringing about a qualitative change in the watershed based development programs in India.
