Water and sanitation in the world's cities
Subtitle: local action for global goals
By: United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-HABITAT)
Contributors: United Nations Human Settlements Programme
Publisher: Earthscan Publications
Published: 2003
Place of publication: London; Sterling, VA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 274
Subjects: Municipal water supply -- Developing countries; Sanitation -- Developing countries
Description: "Water and Sanitation in the World's Cities is a comprehensive and authoritative assessment of the problems and how they can be addressed. This influential publication by the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat) sets out in detail the scale of inadequate provision of water and sanitation.

It describes the impacts on health and economic performance, showing the potential gains of remedial action; it analyses the proximate and underlying causes of poor provision and identifies information gaps affecting resource allocation; it outlines the consequences of further deterioration; and it explains how resources and institutional capacities - public, private and community - can be used to deliver proper services through integrated water resource management."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographic references and index