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Water-supply --- Water utilities --- Effect of global warming on. --- Risk management. --- Water companies --- Public utilities --- Global warming

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"Attempts by local governments to privatize water services have met with furious opposition. Activists argue that to give private companies control of the water supply is to turn water from a common resource into a marketized commodity. Moreover, to cede local power to a global corporation puts communities at the center of controversies over economic globalization. In Contested Water, Joanna Robinson examines local social movement organizing against water privatization, looking closely at battles for control of local water services in Stockton, California, and Vancouver, British Columbia. The movements in these two communities had different trajectories, used different tactics, and experienced different outcomes. Robinson analyzes the factors that shaped these two struggles. Drawing on extensive interviews with movement actors, political leaders, and policymakers and detailed analysis of textual material, Robinson shows that the successful campaign in Vancouver drew on tactics, opportunities, and narratives from the broader antiglobalization movement, with activists emphasizing the threats to local democracy and accountability; the less successful movement in Stockton centered on a ballot initiative that was made meaningless by a pre-emptive city council vote. Robinson finds that global forces are reshaping local movements, particularly those that oppose neoliberal reforms at the municipal level. She argues that anti-water privatization movements that link local and international concerns and build wide-ranging coalitions at local and global levels offer an effective way to counter economic globalization. Successful challenges to globalization will not necessarily come from transnational movements but rather from movements that are connected globally but rooted in local communities."--Publisher's description.

Water utilities --- Municipal water supply --- Privatization --- Denationalization --- Privatisation --- Cities and towns --- Urban water --- Water, Municipal --- Water, Urban --- Water companies --- Water-supply --- Contracting out --- Corporatization --- Government ownership --- Municipal engineering --- Public utilities --- E-books --- ENVIRONMENT/General --- ENVIRONMENT/Environmental Politics & Policy

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This fascinating and unique study of essential utilities in the early modern period will interest business historians and historians of science and technology alike.

Water utilities --- Water-supply --- Waterworks --- Water works --- Water-supply engineering --- Availability, Water --- Water availability --- Water resources --- Natural resources --- Public utilities --- Water resources development --- Water companies --- History. --- History --- E-books

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This book aims to raise awareness of how the International Benchmarking Network of Water and Sanitation Utilities (IBNET)can help utilities identify ways to improve urban water and wastewater services. It provides an introduction to benchmarking and to the objectives, scope and focus of IBNET and describes some of its recent achievements. The methodology and data behind IBNET are elaborated, and an overview of IBNET results and country data are presented.

Municipal services -- Case studies. --- Sanitation -- Case studies. --- Water utilities -- Case studies. --- Water utilities --- Sanitation --- Municipal services --- Management --- Industrial Management --- Business & Economics --- Water companies --- Cleanliness --- House drainage --- Sanitary affairs --- Sanitation services --- Sanitation systems --- Municipal services within corporate limits --- Public services --- Public utilities --- Water-supply --- Environmental health --- Hygiene --- Public health --- Sanitary engineering --- Municipal government

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What needs to be done to enable the domestic private sector to expand its role in the provision of safe water and improved sanitation to the poor in developing countries? Is an expanded role constrained because there is limited market potential, or is the problem the fact that business models cannot support an expansion of supply? Are government policies and the investment climate making expansion too costly or risky for enterprises to scale up their operations? This book presents the results of a detailed examination of market opportunities for the domestic private sector in the provision of

Rural poor -- Services for -- Developing countries. --- Sanitation, Rural -- Developing countries. --- Water utilities -- Developing countries. --- Water-supply, Rural -- Developing countries. --- Water utilities --- Water-supply, Rural --- Sanitation, Rural --- Rural poor --- Management --- Business & Economics --- Industrial Management --- Services for --- Rural poverty --- Rural sanitation --- Rural water-supply --- Water companies --- Economic conditions --- Poor --- Rural health --- Public utilities --- Water-supply