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Water Regimes: Beyond the public and private sector debate book cover

1st Edition

Water Regimes Beyond the public and private sector debate

Edited By Dominique Lorrain, Franck Poupeau Copyright 2016
228 Pages 19 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

240 Pages 19 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

240 Pages 19 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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In recent years the water sector has undergone profound institutional, economic and political transformations. Some countries have encouraged privatization of water services, but in many cases this has provoked adverse reaction to such a neoliberal and market-based approach to this common shared but essential resource.  This book goes beyond the ideology of the public versus private water... Read more

Introduction: What do the Protagonists of the Water Sector Do? 

Dominique Lorrain and Franck Poupeau  

Part 1: Unorthodox Models and Practices 

1. "The Embedded Actor": A Water Joint-venture in Chongqing 

Dominique Lorrain 

2. "Delivering More than Water". The Salt River Project: the Invention of an Adaptive Partnership for Water Management 

Murielle Coeurdray, Franck Poupeau, Brian O’Neill and Joan Cortinas 

Part 2: Questions of Legitimacy: Private Interventions in a Public Service 

3. Legitimacy in the Test of Time: Operating Water in Buenos Aires 

Bernard de Gouvello  

4. Water in Paris: Polity and Politics 

Dominique Lorrain 

5. The Partial Privatization of the Berlin Water Company 

Thomas Blanchet 

6. Corporate Social Responsibility and Public Service Management in Nagpur 

Marie-Hélène Zérah and Cécile Renouard 

Part 3: When Small Water Systems meet the Large Technical System 

7. A Local Public Service: the Action of Small-scale Private Water Providers to Supply Peripheral Neighbourhoods in Three African Cities 

Sarah Botton and Aymeric Blanc 

8. Cooperatives in La Paz and El Alto: A Complementary System 

Sébastien Hardy and Franck Poupeau 

9. The Decentralization of Supply in Four Uttar Pradesh Municipalities  

Rémi de Bercegol and Shankare Gowda 

10. Water Disputes in Soweto. Inequalities, Social Mobilisations and Recourse to the Law 

Julie Aubriot 

Part 4: Conclusion 

11. Lessons drawn from the Practices of Operators 

Dominique Lorrain and Franck Poupeau

Biography

Dominique Lorrain is Director of Research (emeritus) at CNRS, Latts, Ecole des Ponts ParisTech, Paris, France. 

Franck Poupeau is a Director of Research at CNRS and Director of the International Joint Center iGLOBES, based at the University of Arizona, USA.

"With its clear focus on the ultimate policy objective of water for all and the practices that lead to the achievement of this goal, Lorrain and Poupeau’s book offers rich insights as well as inspiration for the future research agenda." - Olivia Jensen in Water Alternatives, 2019
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