Urban water conflicts (Record no. 55705)
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| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 9780415498630 |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 363.61 |
| Item number | BAR |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Barraque, Bernard Ed. |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Urban water conflicts |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) | |
| Place of publication, distribution, etc | Paris |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc | UNESCO |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc | 2012 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | xxxii,313p. |
| 440 ## - SERIES STATEMENT/ADDED ENTRY--TITLE | |
| Title | Urban water series Ed. by Cedo Maksimovic & Others Vol.8 |
| 9 (RLIN) | 65441 |
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| Formatted contents note | Table of Contents<br/>List of Figures xiii<br/>List of Tables xv<br/>List of Boxes xvii<br/>List of Acronyms xix<br/>Glossary xxiii<br/>List of Contributors xxvii<br/>Introduction xxxi<br/>1 Urban water conflicts: Background and conceptual framework 1<br/>1.1 UNESCO-IHP Taskforce on Urban Water Conflicts 1<br/>1.2 Socioeconomic and institutional aspects of urban water management 2<br/>1.3 Definition of urban water: an impure public good 4<br/>1.4 A few methodologies for analysing urban water conflicts 9<br/>1.5 Conclusions 13<br/>2 Urban water conflicts in recent European history: Changing interactions between technology, environment and society 15<br/>2.1 Introduction 15<br/>2.2 Governments intervene to provide long distance supply of clean water 17<br/>2.3 From quantity at a distance to quality close at hand 20<br/>2.4 The crisis of municipal water supply services 23<br/>2.5 European water services and the three Es of sustainability 25<br/>2.6 The new social issue of sustainability 28<br/>2.7 Conclusion 30<br/>3 Water, public responsibility and equity: The Barcelona ‘water war’ of the 1990s 33<br/>4 Full circle? Public responsibility versus privatization of water supplies in the United States 39<br/>4.1 Urban water supply before 1830 40<br/>4.2 The rise of the public water utility, 1830–1920 41<br/>4.3 Expansion of water supply systems, 1920–1945 44<br/>4.4 Metropolitan expansion and new demands on water supplies, 1945–1970 45<br/>4.5 From infrastructure crisis to privatization, 1970–2004 46<br/>4.6 Conclusion 53<br/>5 Public-private partnership in courts: The rise and fall of concessions to supply drinking water in France (1875–1928) 57 <br/>5.1 Corpus and context 58<br/>5.2 The origin of conflicts: is drinking water a profit-oriented service? 60<br/>5.3 CE position: under a concession contract, drinking water is a profit-oriented activity 62<br/>5.3.1 Amendments should be negotiated by the parties on the grounds of the initial contract’s status quo 63<br/>5.3.2 Local authorities had no right to renegotiate access to private service 63<br/>5.3.3 The CE restrictions on contract termination 64<br/>5.4 The consequence of CE decisions on water supply management 64<br/>5.5 Conclusion 66<br/>6 In search of (hidden) Portuguese urban water conflicts: The Lisbon water story (1856–2006) 69<br/>6.1 A century of Portuguese water services: evolution, accomplishments and failures 69<br/>6.2 The Lisbon water story 74<br/>6.2.1 Liberal waters (1858–1926) 74<br/>6.2.2 Authoritarian waters (1926–1974) 78<br/>6.2.3 Democratic waters (1974–2006) 81<br/>6.3 Urban water conflicts: from the unfinished welfare state to the new regulatory state 84<br/>6.4 Concluding remarks: hidden conflicts or potential conflicts? 87<br/>7 Water supply services in the cities of Brazil: Conflicts, challenges and new opportunities in regulation 93<br/>7.1 Introduction 93<br/>7.2 The institutional conflicts and challenges 95<br/>7.3 Economic conflicts and challenges 99<br/>7.4 Socio-environmental challenges and conflicts: social inequality and environmental degradation 104<br/>7.5 New opportunities in water and services management: regulation and conflict-resolution 106<br/>8 Urban water conflicts in Buenos Aires: Voices questioning the sustainability of the water and sewerage concession 111<br/>8.1 Introduction 111<br/>8.1.1 The social urban context 112<br/>8.1.2 Water services before privatization 112<br/>8.1.3 The private sector operating the largest water concession in the world 113<br/>8.1.4 Development of the chapter 115<br/>8.2 Economic sustainability issues leading to political conflict and conflict among users 115<br/>8.2.1 Financing the expansion of the network: the SUMA conflict 115<br/>8.2.2 Devaluation of the Argentinean peso: renegotiation of the concession contract 117<br/>8.3 Social sustainability issues: bringing water services to the poor 120<br/>8.3.1 Bringing water and sewerage networks to poor neighbourhoods 120<br/>8.3.2 The social tariff: a response to the recent inability of Argentina’s middle class to cope with the water bill 123<br/>8.4 The evolution of the ‘environmental question’ in the context of the water sector privatization and the concession process 123<br/>8.4.1 Water table rise, flooding and environmental conflict 124<br/>8.4.2 Urban water conflict and environmental conflict: the Lomas de Zamora Water Forum 125<br/>8.4.3 The ‘environmental problem’ and the need for a responding institution 126<br/>8.5 Conclusion 127<br/>9 In search of meaningful interdisciplinarity: Understanding urban water conflicts in Mexico 129<br/>9.1 Introduction 129<br/>9.2 Urban water conflicts in Mexico from a historical perspective 129<br/>9.3 Urban water conflict events in Mexico 132<br/>9.4 Explaining urban water conflicts 139<br/>9.5 Concluding remarks 142<br/>10 Conflict versus cooperation between the state and civil society: A water-demand management comparison between Cape Town and Johannesburg, South Africa 147<br/>10.1 Background to the South African water context 149<br/>10.2 Case study 1: Johannesburg 150<br/>10.2.1 Institutional profile of water service provision in Johannesburg 150<br/>10.2.2 The Gcin’ Amanzi Project 151<br/>10.2.3 Community response 154<br/>10.3 Case study 2: Cape Town 156<br/>10.3.1 The state of municipal debt: the driver behind Cape Town’s WDM approach 157<br/>10.3.2 Mfuleni pilot project 158<br/>10.3.3 Water saving device options 159<br/>10.4 CSO response 161<br/>10.5 The political terrain of the two cities 161<br/>10.6 Conclusion 165<br/>11 Conflicts of influence and competing models: The boom in community-based privatization of water services in sub-Saharan Africa 169<br/>11.1 Water supply systems in urban areas with no network connection 171<br/>11.1.1 Dispelling a myth: the spread of public-private partnerships from large cities 171<br/>11.1.2 Project-based rationale and systems involving decentralized players: behind the profusion, a model 178<br/>11.2 The limitations of community-based privatization 180<br/>11.2.1 Dysfunctions of the model . . . 180<br/>11.2.2 . . . or an unsuitable model? 181<br/>11.3 The community-based model versus the public model: ideological domination at stake 184<br/>11.3.1 The need for efficient sectoral approaches and depoliticization of management 185<br/>11.3.2 The supposed advantages of community-based regulation 185<br/>11.3.3 A deep distrust of local public authorities 188<br/>11.4 Conclusion 190<br/>12 Governance failure: Urban water and conflict in Jakarta, Indonesia 195<br/>12.1 Introduction: watering Jakarta 195<br/>12.2 Splintered urbanism: fragmented access to urban water supply 196<br/>12.3 Urban governance: the production of thirst 198<br/>12.4 Going private: conflict over the water supply concession contract for the city of Jakarta 202<br/>12.4.1 The private sector participation contract in Jakarta 203<br/>12.4.2 Re-regulation: tariffs, profits and conflictual re-negotiation of the contract 206<br/>12.4.3 Conflicts with water utility workers: labour-led protests and unrest 207<br/>12.4.4 Connecting the poor? Conflict over tariffs and pricing 208<br/>12.4.5 Pro-poor initiatives 211<br/>12.5 Conclusions: governance failure 214<br/>13 Man-made scarcity, unsustainability and urban water conflicts in Indian cities 221<br/>13.1 Introduction 221<br/>13.2 Our understanding of urban water conflicts 222<br/>13.3 The issue of water access in Delhi 223<br/>13.3.1 Users’ strategies and cross-bred networks 224<br/>13.3.2 The question of sustainability 225<br/>13.3.3 A chaotic reform process and unexpected outcomes 226<br/>13.4 Chennai: expanding needs and growing conflicts with peri-urban users 228<br/>13.4.1 The central role of the peripheral groundwater 229<br/>13.4.2 Short-term winners and losers: a transition towards conflict? 230<br/>13.5 Conclusion: a common framework of weak and ineffective conflict resolution mechanisms 233<br/>14 Urban water conflicts in the western US 237<br/>14.1 Water development and the environment 238<br/>14.2 Water in California and the transfer from agriculture to urban areas 238<br/>14.3 Introduction to the Imperial Valley case 240<br/>14.4 The decision-making process leading to trading 241<br/>14.5 Decision-making in San Diego 243<br/>14.6 Institutions, spatial scale and inter-regional relations 245<br/>14.7 Conclusion 245<br/>15 Urban water reform in Italy: A live bomb behind outward unanimity 247<br/>15.1 The weaving of Penelope 247<br/>15.2 Path towards the reform: the crisis of the traditional model 249<br/>15.3 The reform 254<br/>15.4 A new model for providing WSS: challenges and trade-offs 257<br/>15.5 Implementing the WFD: the first challenge for the privatized water system 261<br/>15.6 Conclusions 265<br/>16 Water infrastructures between commercialization and shrinking: The case of Eastern Germany 269<br/>16.1 Introduction 269<br/>16.2 The German water market in transition: the main transformations in water supply and wastewater disposal 270<br/>16.3 From ‘flourishing landscapes’ to shrinking regions: post-reunification developments in Eastern Germany 272<br/>16.4 Conflicts about infrastructure supply and privatization: the case of Brandenburg and Frankfurt (Oder) 275<br/>16.5 Learning from shrinking regions 279<br/>17 Urban water conflicts and sustainability: An ecological-economic approach 285<br/>17.1 Introduction 285<br/>17.2 Sustainability and carrying capacity in the water domain 286<br/>17.3 The parabola of urban water systems 291<br/>17.3.1 The ‘further from farther’ crisis 291<br/>17.3.2 Modernization and sustainability of urban water management 294<br/>17.3.3 Drivers of modernization 296<br/>17.4 Towards a general understanding of UWC 299<br/>17.4.1 Conflicts as indicators of urban water sustainability 299<br/>17.4.2 Interpretative frames: actors in conflict 300<br/>17.4.3 Interpretative frames: categories of conflict 305<br/>Index 311<br/> <br/> |
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