Water Governance

Edited by Asanga Gunawansa, Senior Counsel, Colombo Law Alliance, Advisor, Green Climate Fund, Arbitrator and Mediator, Kuala Lampur Regional Centre for Arbitration, Director, Sri Lanka International Arbitration Centre, Visiting Professor, University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka and Lovleen Bhullar, Assistant Professor in Environmental Law, Department of Land Economy, University of Cambridge, UK

• Contents:1. IntroductionAsanga Gunawansa, Lovleen Bhullar and Sonia Ferdous Hoque2. Private Sector Participation in Water Supply: A Global PerspectiveEdouard Pérard3. Good Governance: The Key to Solving Asia’s Water Supply ChallengesAlex Wong4. The UK Water Industry: Infrastructure, Governance and ProcurementAkintola Akintoye and Suresh Renukappa5. Performance of Urban Water Governance in FranceEshien Chong6. Water Governance in Spain: A Dynamic System in TransitionBelen Olmos Giupponi7. Urban Water Challenges in the MENA Region: Integrating Islamic Principles with Demand Management StrategiesArani Kajenthira and Sharmila Murthy8. Implementing PPP Programs in the Urban Water and Sanitation Sector: Some Insights from the Indian Experience in Selected StatesAshwin Mahalingam9. Urban Water Governance in China: Legal and Policy FrameworkLovleen Bhullar10. Development of Public–Private Partnerships in the Water Sector in SingaporeRobert L.K. Tiong, Zheng Sha and Abu Naser Chowdhury 11. Urban Water Governance in Australia: The Private Sector at the MarginsMichael Paddon12. Risks in Urban Water Reforms: A Challenge to Public–Private PartnershipsClaude Ménard13. Public and Private Interfaces: Changing International Perceptions of Public–Private Partnerships in Water ServicesHåkan Tropp and Camelia Dewan14. Re-municipalization of Water Utilities: Back to the Public FoldAsanga Gunawansa and Vanessa Garcia15. Good Governance of Water: The Final AnalysisSonia Ferdous Hoque and Asanga GunawansaIndex

’‘Ensuring that everybody has access to drinking water, sanitation and enough nutritious food, which depends on water to grow it, are prerequisites for a healthy life. Water management is not just about the technical aspects of water supply and sanitation. It is equally about our water governance systems, including policies, regulation and societal perception of water rights. This book presents many helpful examples of how different societies are dealing with these issues and of the performance of public and private sector players in this important arena.’