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2007/2008 Report
The latest global Report on the theme of climate change was launched on 27 November 2007.
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Background Papers
- Bakker, Karen, Michelle Kooy, Nur Endah Shofiani, and Ernst-Jan Martijn. "Disconnected" [4,764 KB]
- Cotula, Lorenzo . "Water Rights, Poverty and Inequality" [328 KB]
- Lydia Baker, Tony German, Andrew Kardan . "Development Assistance for Water and Sanitation" [182 KB]
- Fuentes, Ricardo, Tobias Pfütze, and Papa Seck. "Does Access to Water and Sanitation Affect Child Survival?" [616 KB]
- Fuentes, Ricardo, Tobias Pfütze, and Papa Seck. "A Logistic Analysis of Diarrhea Incidence and Access to Water and Sanitation" [976 KB]
- Gandy, Matthew. "Water, Sanitation and the Modern City" [229 KB]
- Grimm, Michael, Kenneth Harttgen, Stephan Klasen, and Mark Misselhorn. "A Human Development Index by Income Groups" [326 KB]
- Jägerskog, Anders, and David Philllips. "Managing Trans-boundary Waters for Human Development" [450 KB]
- Mehta, Lyla. "Water and human development" [158 KB]
- Narain, Sunita. "Community-led Alternatives to Water Management" [279 KB]
- Nicol, Alan, Rajindra Ariyabandu, and Sobona Mtisi. "Water as a Productive Resource" [592 KB]
- Satterthwaite, David, and Gordon McGranahan. "Overview of the Global Sanitation Problem" [290 KB]
- SIWI (Stockholm International Water Institute), Håkan Tropp, Malin Falkenmark, and Jan Lundqvist. "Water Governance Challenges" [934 KB]
- Swyngedouw, Erik. "Power, Water and Money" [837 KB]
- Tortajada, Cecilia. "Water Governance with Equity" [1,557 KB]
- Tortajada, Cecilia. "Who Has Access to Water? " [748 KB]
- WaterAid, . "Getting the ‘Off Track’ on Target" [416 KB]
- Whittington, Dale. "Pricing Water and Sanitation Services" [302 KB]
- Wolf, Aaron T. "Conflict and Cooperation Over Transboundary Waters" [683 KB]
Thematic Papers
- Adams, Martin, Jeremy Berkoff, and Elizabeth Daley. "Land-Water Interactions" [334 KB]
- Barraqué, Bernard, and Erik Mostert. "Transboundary River Basin Management in Europe" [94 KB]
- Gasparini, Leonardo, and Leopoldo Tornarolli. "Disparities in Water Pricing in Latin America and the Caribbean" [154 KB]
- Guevara-Sanginés, Alejandro. "Water Subsidies and Aquifer depletion in Mexico’s Arid Regions" [163 KB]
- Heller, Léo. "Access to Water Supply and Sanitation in Brazil" [1,089 KB]
- Hernández Mazariegos, Juan Emilio. "Water and Basic Sanitation in Latin America and the Caribbean" [1,066 KB]
- Hunt, Caroline. "Sanitation and Human Development" [175 KB]
- Jenkins, Marion W., and Steven Sugden. "Rethinking Sanitation" [318 KB]
- Marcus, Richard R. "Local Responses to State Water Policy Changes in Kenya and Madagascar" [510 KB]
- Muller, Arnold Michael. "Sustaining the Right to Water in South Africa" [460 KB]
- Satterthwaite, David. "Appropriate Sanitation Technologies for Addressing Deficiencies in Provision in Low and Middle-Income Nations" [495 KB]
- SWI (Stockholm International Water Institute), Håkan Tropp, and Anders Jägerskog. "Water Scarcity Challenges in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA)" [233 KB]
- Weinthal, Erika. "Water Conflict and Cooperation in Central Asia" [247 KB]
- WHO (World Health Organization), Guy Hutton, Laurence Haller, and Jamie Bartram. "Economic and Health Effects of Increasing Coverage of Low Cost Water and Sanitation Interventions" [1,156 KB]
Issue Notes
- Albiac, José. "The Case of the Water Framework Directive and Irrigation in Mediterranean Agriculture" [81 KB]
- Bryer, Helen. "Mortality, Morbidity and Improvements in Water and Sanitation" [297 KB]
- Buechler, Stephanie,, and Christopher Scott. "Wastewater as a Controversial, Contaminated yet Coveted Resource in South Asia" [64 KB]
- Cai, Ximing. "Water stress, Water Transfer and Social Equity in Northern China" [207 KB]
- DeGeorges, Andre, and B. K. Reilly. "Dams and Large Scale Irrigation on the Senegal River" [1,462 KB]
- Landovsky, Jakub. "Institutional Assessment of Transboundary Water Resources Management" [227 KB]
- Marañón, Boris. "Tension Between Agricultural Growth and Sustainability" [71 KB]
- Meinzen-Dick, R. S., and Claudia Ringler. "Water Reallocation" [129 KB]
- Patak, Bindeshwar. "Operation, Impact and Financing of Sulabh" [172 KB]
- Practical Action Consulting, . "Bangladesh Rural Sanitation Supply Chain and Employment Impact" [111 KB]
- Practical Action Consulting, . "Peru SANBASUR Rural Sanitation Financing Mechanisms" [197 KB]
- Practical Action Consulting, . . "Rural Sanitation in Southern Africa" [162 KB]
- Sánchez Munguía, Vicente. "Water Conflict Between the US and Mexico" [81 KB]
- Shen, Dajun. "Access to Water and Sanitation in China" [166 KB]
- Sylla, Oumar. "Decentralized Managment of Irrigation Areas in the Sahel" [1,474 KB]
- Tortajada, Cecilia. "Saõ Francisco Water Transfer" [69 KB]
- UNICEF (United Nations Children’s Fund), .. "Children and Water, Sanitation and Hygiene" [97 KB]
Additional Papers
- Klawitter, Simone. "Water resources at stake" [364 KB]
- Nickum, James E. "The Status of the South to North Water Transfer Plans in China" [116 KB]
- Thatte, C. D. "Inter-Basin Water Transfer for Augmentation of Water Resources in India" [105 KB]
- Tortajada, Cecilia. "Marginalising the Poorest" [35 KB]
- Tortajada, Cecilia. "Private Versus Public in Water Provision" [59 KB]
- Tortajada, Cecilia. "Reaching the Poorest" [38 KB]
- Tortajada, Cecilia. "Singapore" [93 KB]
- Tortajada, Cecilia. "Water Transfer from the Ebro River" [53 KB]
- Olli, Varis. "The Senegal River Case" [141 KB]
- Varis, Olli. "Tonle Sap Lake, Cambodia" [114 KB]
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