Foreword Kishore Mahbubani
1. Infrastructure and development Cecilia Tortajada and Asit K. Biswas
2. Water infrastructure as an essential element for human development Cecilia Tortajada
3. The worldwide urban water and wastewater infrastructure challenge Michael Rouse
4. Is water scarcity a constraint to feeding Asia’s growing population? Colin Chartres
5. Water services industry reforms in Malaysia Yen Hua Teo
6. Water infrastructure in China: the importance of full project life-cycle cost analysis in addressing water challenges Shuping Lu
7. Water infrastructure for the Hindu Kush Himalayas David James Molden, Ramesh Ananda Vaidya, Arun Bhakta Shrestha, Golam Rasul and Mandira Singh Shrestha
8. The Gujarat State-Wide Water Supply Grid: a step towards water security Andrea Biswas-Tortajada
9. Positive externalities of irrigation from the Sardar Sarovar Project for farm production and domestic water supply M. Dinesh Kumar, S. Jagadeesan and M.V.K. Sivamohan
10. Opinion: Environmental over enthusiasm Chetan Pandit
11. The changing role of hydropower: from cheap local energy supply to strategic regional resource Jacob Snell, Daniel Prowse and Ken Adams
12. Interbasin water transfers at the US – Mexico border city of Nogales, Sonora: implications for aquifers and water security Andrea Harrop Prichard and Christopher A. Scott
13. Policy Brief: The 2012 Murray-Darling Basin Plan – issues to watch James Horne
14. Environmental water management in Australia: experience from the Murray-Darling Basin Benjamin Docker and Ian Robinson
Biography
Cecilia Tortajada is a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Water Policy, National University of Singapore.
Asit K. Biswas is a Distinguished Visiting Professor at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy in Singapore.
