Water : Towards a Culture of Responsibility

by Frerot, Antoine; Gurria, Angel (CON)

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9781584659877

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1584659874

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4/12/2011

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Univ Pr of New England

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Clean, fresh drinking water is essential to human and animal life. It's equally important to the world economy: it functions as a universal solvent, makes possible industrial cooling and transportation, and is necessary for all kinds of agriculture. Antoine Frerot, CEO of Veolia Water, takes us on a tour of the world's waters, of our water. Lack of clean water kills 2.2 million people every year, and nearly 1 billion people do not have reliable access to clean drinking water. Using examples that transform theory into close-to-home reality, Frerot issues a serious challenge while showing us how to ensure that all the fast-growing cities of Asia, Africa, and Latin America have enough water. He considers how climate change will cause water shortages and explains what we can do now to prevent them. We have the political, economic, and scientific means to ensure the future of water on earth: we need only the will to take action.

Author Biography

Antoine Frrot is a graduate of the cole Polytechnique and an engineer with the Corps des Ponts et Chausses in France. He is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Veolia Environnement.

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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