Reclaiming Public Water book
The groundbreaking book on how reformed public water services can achieve the goal of delivering water for all. Includes additional new chapters.
Editions in other languages:
Arabic - French - Spanish - Indonesian - Italian - Chinese - Finnish - Korean - Japanese - Hindi - Brazilian
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Foreword [PDF]
New foreword for French edition, 2010 [PDF]
Introduction [PDF] by David Hall
Part 1: Successful Public Water
- Porto Alegre's Water: Public and For All [PDF]
Hélio Maltz - Management of Basic Drinking Water and Sanitation Services by a Co-operative in Bolivia [PDF]
Luis Fernando Yavarí - People's Initiative in Water - Olavanna Village in Kerala. India Shows the Way [PDF]
Joy Elamon - Public-public Partnership: An Alternative Strategy in Water Management in Malaysia [PDF]
Charles Santiago - A Return to the Source - Re-municipalisation of Water Services in Grenoble, France [PDF]
Raymond Avrillier - Democratising the Regulation and Governance of Water in the US [PDF]
Sean Flynn and Kathryn Boudouris - Germany: Public Water Services in Continual Retreat? [PDF]
Hans-Werner Krüger - Water Co-operatives in Argentina [PDF]
Alberto D. Muñoz - Public Services in Colombia: A Matter of Democracy [PDF]
Hildebrando Vélez
Part 2: Public Water. Work in Progress
- Recife, Brazil: Building up Water and Sanitation Services through Citizenship [PDF]
Antonio Miranda - Cochabamba, Bolivia: Public-collective Partnership after the Water War [PDF]
Luis Sánchez Gómez and Philipp Terhorst - The Venezuelan Experience in the Struggle for People-centred Drinking Water and Sanitation Services [PDF]
Santiago Arconada Rodríguez - Against the Current: Community-controlled Water Delivery in Savelugu, Ghana [PDF]
Al-Hassan Adam - Argentina: Workers' Co-operative Takes over Post-Enron [PDF]
Guillermo Amorebieta - South Africa: Testing the Waters of Public-public Partnerships [PDF]
Laila Smith
Part 3: Struggles for People-centred Public Water
- Revised (July 2006) Uruguay: direct democracy in defence of the right to water
Uruguay: Victorious Social Struggle for Water [PDF]
Carlos Santos and Alberto Villarreal - The Struggle against Water Privatisation in South Africa [PDF]
Dale T. McKinley - Ukraine: Women Act against Poverty and Privatisation [PDF]
Svitlana Slesarenok - Learning from Privatisation of Water Services in Trencin, Slovakia [PDF]
Roman Havlicek - Possibilities for Public Water in Manila [PDF]
Carla A. Montemayor - Water Privatisation in Indonesia [PDF]
Nila Ardhianie - Urban Water Management in Mexico [PDF]
David Barkin
Empowering Public Water - Ways Forward [PDF]
the editorial team
New chapters added since first publication
- Paris: an example of how local authorities can regain control of water management
Anne Le Strat - Paris: comment une collectivité peut reprendre en main la gestion de l’eau
Anne Le Strat - Foreword for the French edition
- Renforcer l’eau publique en Afrique: pour un modèle de partenariat public-public en réseau Sud-Sud-Nord [PDF]
Samir Bensaid
English edition:
- Uruguay: direct democracy in defence of the right to water
Carlos Santos y Alberto Villareal - Social Resistance in El Alto - Bolivia [PDF]
Julián Pérez - Abruzzo, Italia: a struggle in defence of water and for citizens' participation
Augusto De Sanctis and Antonio Senta - Water management in Córdoba (Spain): a participative, efficient and effective public model
Enrique Ortega de Miguel and Andrés Sanz Mulas - Water privatization does not yield cost savings
Mildred E. Warner - Strengthening public water in Africa: South South North networked model of Public-public Partnerships [PDF]
Samir Bensaid - Citizen-Controlled Water Supply Systems: Lessons From Bonadikombo, Limbe, Cameroon (PDF)
Ambe J. Njoh
- Water Management Challenges in Palestine (PDF)
PENGON – Friends of the Earth Palestine - Drinking Water Protests in Egypt and the Role of Civil Society(PDF)
- Water privatisation in Morocco: First lessons drawn from the case of Lyonnaise des Eaux in Casablanca (PDF)
Mehdi Lahlou - Huancayo: From resistance to public-public partnership (PDF)
Philipp Terhorst - Beyond water wars: lessons on forming collaborative governance from Cochabamba
by Travis Driessen
- Our rivers and water are not for sale! Reclaiming public water: the experience of Delhi
Rakhi Sehgal, April 2007 - Democratisation of water management as a way to reclaiming public water: The Tamil Nadu experience
V. Suresh and Pradip Prabhu, April 2007
Chinese edition (September 2006)
- Preface by Susan George
- The privatization of water supply in China [PDF]
Au Loong Yu and Liu Danqing - Hong Kong: A role model of public-operated water supply services
Government Waterworks Professionals Association
Portuguese edition (July 2007):
- Water policy in Brazil and the various paths to implementation [PDF]
Luis Fernando Novoa Grzon - Política de águas no Brasil e os distintos caminhos de sua implementação [PDF]
Luis Fernando Novoa Garzon
Revised chapter on Uruguay
Uruguay: direct democracy in defence of the right to water
Carlos Santos y Alberto Villareal
Notes on Authors [PDF]
Resources [PDF]
