The appearance of this Second Edition has been encouraged by the favorable reception of the first. This has offered us the opportunity to update the materials a
The privatization of water supply and wastewater systems, together with institutional restructuring of governance – through decentralization and the penetrati
This book reveals all that can potentially happen when a private company takes over a local water supply system, both the good and the bad. Backed by real life
Setting the scene with a thorough introduction to water resource issues, Water Privatisation critically examines the new role played by Trans-National Corporati
Gibbons examines the water supply problem through five case studies. The problems faced by these regions and the methods suggested to overcome them provide exce