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Preface | p. 5 |
Introduction: A time to take responsibility | p. 9 |
The Water Century | p. 19 |
Satisfying Growing Needs | p. 20 |
Ever increasing withdrawals from non increasing resources | p. 21 |
Parched megalopolises | p. 25 |
The growing competition for water resources | p. 26 |
Water for agriculture: the highest consumption, the highest waste | p. 28 |
Preventing Further Loss of the Quality of Our Water Resources | p. 31 |
Sanitation, the ôpoor relationö of water management | p. 31 |
A long march: controlling agricultural pollution | p. 35 |
The limitations of the ôpolluter paysö principle | p. 38 |
Escaping the spiral: ever more treatment of water that is ever more polluted | p. 40 |
Europe Sets a Goal: A Return to Good Water Quality | p. 42 |
Europe: 30 years of water policies | p. 42 |
Good water status: moving towards a new stage in European water policy | p. 45 |
A disappointment on current water quality | p. 47 |
Quality and quantity: factors separated for too long | p. 47 |
Water: The Primary Issue for Human Development | p. 50 |
Unsafe drinking water and no sanitation: the world's greatest killers | p. 50 |
Lack of access means a higher price for water | p. 53 |
Wasted human resources, wasted social resources | p. 55 |
Millennium Goals: mixed results in the medium term | p. 56 |
Water's False Friends | p. 61 |
Climate Change and Water: Disturbing Facts | p. 62 |
Unavoidable change, avoidable catastrophe | p. 62 |
The climate changes… and us? | p. 65 |
Foreseeing to be able to act | p. 66 |
The water wars will not happen | p. 67 |
A future with more climatic disasters | p. 69 |
Two Misplaced ôGood Ideasö: ôFree Waterö and ôUser Pays for Allö | p. 72 |
Free water: a review of recent history | p. 72 |
The myth of a free water service | p. 73 |
The opposite of free supply: the user pays for all | p. 75 |
The happy medium: a sociably affordable water price | p. 77 |
The Private Sector: Too Much or Too Little Involvement? | p. 79 |
The many forms of cooperation between public and private | p. 79 |
Privatisation: so frequently debated, so rarely practiced | p. 81 |
To delegate or not to delegate | p. 83 |
Public-private partnership: from fashionable craze to maturity | p. 86 |
Snapshots of the Latin American experience | p. 87 |
Are public-private partnerships appropriate for developing countries? | p. 91 |
Water: Is the Service Too Expensive? | p. 96 |
Water is not oil | p. 96 |
The price of water in France: the perception and the reality | p. 97 |
What price for what area? The example of France | p. 100 |
Are public operators less expensive? A false evidence | p. 102 |
A price that fails to reflect the scarcity of water | p. 105 |
The developing world: under-financing causes exclusion | p. 107 |
Information and transparency: at the heart of the debate | p. 108 |
Knowing what is being compared | p. 110 |
Funders, Often Criticised but Indispensable | p. 111 |
An overview of public aid for water and sanitation | p. 112 |
Insufficient finance | p. 114 |
The search for new financial initiatives | p. 116 |
When one method displaces another | p. 119 |
Finding new models | p. 123 |
New Resources | p. 127 |
Water saving, a resource available now | p. 127 |
Recycled waste water: the only resource that gains from economic development | p. 130 |
Sea water, an unlimited resource | p. 133 |
Using previously unexploited sources | p. 136 |
Rainwater: a useful resource, but not without its risk | p. 138 |
New Economic and Financial Models | p. 141 |
Mixed funding between service users and taxpayers | p. 142 |
Performance-based payment systems | p. 144 |
Separating the volume sold from the volume pumped | p. 144 |
Increasing water productivity for consumers | p. 145 |
The end of the principle of ôuser pays for waterö? | p. 146 |
Helping More the Disadvantaged | p. 149 |
Developing countries: water and sanitation for the greatest number | p. 149 |
Developed countries: maintaining access to services for the poorest | p. 160 |
Governance: At the Root of the Problem, at the Heart of the Solution | p. 164 |
The pathologies of governance | p. 165 |
Good governance means a proper allocation of roles | p. 166 |
Nothing sustainable can be created without dialogue and consultation | p. 169 |
Transparency: building a long-term relationship of trust | p. 173 |
Conclusion: Towards a culture of responsibility | p. 177 |
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