Argentina - Matanza-Riachuelo Basin Sustainable Development Project

World Bank
June 2009

The objective of the Matanza-Riachuelo (M-R) Basin Sustainable Development Project for Argentina is to improve sewerage services in the M-R river basin and other parts of the province and city of Buenos Aires by expanding transport and treatment capacity. There are four components to the project grouped under two broad macro-components; the first macro component is the sanitation. Investments in sanitation infrastructure including the left bank collector, the Baja Costanera bypass collector, the Riachuelo preliminary treatment plant, inflow and effluent pumping stations at the Riachuelo preliminary treatment plant, the Riachuelo outfall, the Industrial collector, and the right bank collector. The second macro component includes: a) support for industrial pollution abatement; and b) environmental territorial management. The industrial pollution abatement component include technical assistance to improve environmental monitoring and enforcement of environmental targets for selected industrial activities, as well as financing of cleaner production investments to enhance and support environmental compliance among polluting small and medium size enterprises. The environmental territorial management component include technical assistance for environmental land use planning and financing for pilot urban and drainage works. Finally, the fourth component is the institutional strengthening and project management.

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Undisclosed Risk: Corporate Environmental and Social Reporting in Emerging Asia

Dana Krechowicz, Hiranya Fernando
World Resources Institute
June, 2009



This report focuses on corporate transparency on environmental risks, and lays the groundwork for understanding environmental disclosure and reporting issues in emerging markets through an investor lens. It is the second report in a series establishing the link between issues like climate change, air pollution, water supply, and natural resource depletion and traditional financial analysis on corporate value and financial strength for companies in six key Asian economies — India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Thailand, and Vietnam.

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Emerging Risks: Impacts of Key Environmental Trends in Emerging Asia

Dana Krechowicz, Hiranya Fernando
World Resources Institute
June, 2009



This report is the first in a series establishing the link between issues like climate change, air pollution, water supply, and natural resource depletion and traditional financial analysis on corporate value and financial strength for companies in six key Asian economies – India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Thailand, and Vietnam.

The report lays the groundwork for analysts to understand environmental issues as financially material, and for companies to see the financial benefits of reducing their environmental impacts.

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Evaluación de los operadores locales de pequeña escala de agua y saneamiento en el Perú

Programa de Agua y Saneamiento Región América Latina y el Caribe
Junio 2007

El objetivo del presente estudio es identificar las razones por las cuales han surgido los operadores locales de pequeña escala (OLPE) de agua potable y saneamiento en el Perú y evaluar la experiencia de éstos con énfasis en su alcance y calidad, sus costos y sostenibilidad, así como hacer una propuesta para mejorar el servicio al mercado tradicionalmente servido por los OLPE.

Por ello, el estudio se dividió en tres etapas: (a) diagnóstico sectorial para entender por qué las políticas sectoriales y los recursos financieros e institucionales no han logrado proveer de servicios de agua a toda la población, especialmente a los segmentos servidos por los OLPE; (b) encuestas en 14 localidades
con OLPE y análisis de los aspectos legales, técnicos financieros, del mercado y percepción de los consumidores; y (c) formulación de recomendaciones sobre políticas sectoriales y referentes a los OLPE, y sugerencias de proyectos prioritarios que apoyen la prestación de un mejor servicio, en particular a la población más pobre.

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Economics in sustainable water management: Training manual and facilitator s guide

EUWI
March 2008

EUWI finance, Cap-net, Gwp - This training manual has been developed in partnership between Cap-Net, GWP and EUWI-FWG.

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Proceso de implementación de la tasa por utilización de aguas (TUA)

Corantioquia

En el proceso de implementación de la Tasa por Utilización de Aguas, una de las acciones requeridas para su facturación, es el reporte los registros de consumo de agua durante el año 2008 por parte de los usuarios.

A continuación encontrará una serie de documentos que incluyen aspectos normativos y técnicos relacionados con el proceso de implementación.

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Ecodiversos

Especial Agua
Corantioquia
Octubre 2007

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Plan de gestión integral de residuos sólidos regional del Valle de Aburrá 2005-2020

Corantioquia
Marzo de 2006

Resumen Ejecutivo

Convenio Nº 325 de 2004
Entre Área Metropolitana del Valle de Aburrá (AMVA) – Universidad de Antioquia (U. de A.) – Asociación de Ingenieros Sanitarios y Ambientales de Antioquia(AINSA)

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Documentos completos

Household water treatment and safe storage in emergencies

International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies
2008

The manual covers key aspects of household water treatment and storage during emergency situations, including:

- Basic facts on household water treatment and safe storage
- Several methods for the treatment of water (disinfection, sedimentation, filtration, etc.)
- The safe storage and handling of water
- The promotion of water treatment and safe storage at household level
- Several factsheets on water treatment.

The manual is very easy to read and contains numerous illustrations.

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En español: Sistemas domésticos de tratamiento y almacenamiento de agua en situaciones de emergencia: Un manual para el personal y los voluntarios de la Cruz Roja/Media Luna Roja en el terreno

Reforming urban water utilities in Western and Central Africa: experiences with public-private partnerships

World Bank

The Western and Central Africa has one of the longest experiences with public-private partnerships (PPPs) in the developing world, both for water supply and for combined power and water supply utilities. Cote d'Ivoire has a successful partnership dating from 1959, and over the last two decades as many as 15 countries (out of 23 in the region) have experimented with PPPs: eight for water supply operations alone and seven for combined power and water supply operations. This discussion paper documents the region's experience with PPPs for urban water supply in a comprehensive manner to help inform the current debate about the benefits brought by PPPs, in the context of helping Africa to achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDG). Eleven PPPs have been studied, and detailed performance indicators are reported for six large cases - Cote d'Ivoire, Senegal, Niger, Mali, Burkina Faso, and Gabon, with at least four years of private operation. Through its successes and failures, the Western and Central African experience offers interesting lessons that other developing countries could reflect upon as they strive to improve the quality of urban water supply services, increase the efficiency of operations, and establish the financial credibility of the sector.

Volume one of Reforming urban water utilities in Western and Central Africa: experiences with public-private partnerships presents the origins and types of PPPs that have been implemented in the region and analyses their impact on the water supply service. The lessons that have been learned are also discussed.

Volume two of Reforming urban water utilities in Western and Central Africa: experiences with public-private partnerships presents case studies of urban water utilities and of combined power and water utilities.

Volumen I

Volumen II

Saneamiento Ecológico: Lecciones aprendidas en zonas periurbanas de Lima

Programa de Agua y Saneamiento Región América Latina y el Caribe
Octubre 2006

Las zonas rurales y peri-urbanas del Perú carecen en proporciones alarmantes de adecuados servicios públicos de agua potable y saneamiento. En el área rural, el déficit de acceso al agua potable es de 38 por ciento y a los servicios de saneamiento de 70 por ciento. En las zonas peri-urbanas la población tiene acceso limitado a los servicios de agua potable, saneamiento y recolección de desechos sólidos, lo que genera un impacto grave en la salud y el bienestar de la gente.

Lima Metropolitana, la capital peruana, tiene un clima árido y su cercanía al océano Pacífico impide extraer grandes cantidades de agua subterránea para su abastecimiento con agua potable. Los recursos de agua a partir de las aguas superficiales del río Rímac son limitados, puesto que dependen de las precipitaciones anuales en la región andina, generando una permanente escasez de agua para sus habitantes. Dentro de la ciudad, el recurso de agua potable no está repartido de manera justa: la mayoría de habitantes que carece de los servicios sostenibles de agua potable y saneamiento viven asentamientos humanos de las zonas peri-urbanas. El estudio precisa conceptos de saneamiento ecológico, experiencias en la mejora del medio ambiente trasmitidas por Ecosan, entre otros interesantes datos.

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How well is the demand-driven, community management model for rural water supply systems doing?: Evidence from Bolivia, Peru, and Ghana

BWPI Working Paper 22
The University of Manchester Brooks World Poverty Institute
January 2008

This paper reports the main findings from a multi-country research project designed to develop a better understanding of the performance of community-managed rural water
supply systems in developing countries. Data was collected from households, village
water committees, focus groups of village residents, system operators, and key
informants in 400 rural communities in Peru, Bolivia, and Ghana. Our findings suggest
that the demand-driven, community management model, coupled with access to spare
parts and some technical expertise, has come a long way toward unravelling the puzzle
of how to best design and implement rural water supply programs in developing countries. In all three countries, rural water supply projects were “working”. Among the households included in our sample in Peru and Bolivia, 95 percent had operational taps at the time of our field visit. In 90 percent of the villages in Ghana, all project boreholes were still working. Not only were the rural water systems not broken down, but almost all the households in these communities were using at least some of their water from the systems. However, some households were also still using water from other sources. In Ghana, 38 percent of households still reported using water from unprotected sources (e.g. springs, rivers and open wells) for drinking and/or cooking. Another troublesome finding is that rural households in the sample villages are paying very little for the improved water services, and, as a result, the finances of many village water committees are in poor shape.

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Adapting to climate change in the water sector

Alan Nicol and Nanki Kaur
Overseas Development Institute
March 2009



Climate change that warms the atmosphere and oceans will change major weather systems, with greater likelihood of extremes – droughts and floods – in different parts of the world. These changes will, in turn, affect human livelihoods, particularly those dependent on direct access to natural assets. Rain-fed agriculture, human settlement patterns and movement, water supplies, sanitation and irrigation will all be affected, leading to changes in human health, wealth and security. On the demand side, as populations grow and move – and as their income levels increase or decrease – their demand for water resources will change.

Taken together, these changes will present major challenges to future management of water resources for human and ecosystem development.

This Background Paper, one of four prepared for World Water Day 2009, calls for more sensitive analysis, combined with stronger scenario planning that takes as its starting point the development needs of populations. What will demand be, and why, in time and space across different sectors, and what are the likely ‘bads’ to avoid and ‘goods’ to support?

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Space Technologies and Climate Change: Implications for Water Management, Marine Resources and Maritime Transport

OECD
November 2008



This book examines the contributions that space technologies can make in tackling some of the serious problems posed by climate change. Focusing on examples of water management, marine resources and maritime transport, it sets out the rationale for further developing satellite systems to measure and monitor climate change and help mitigate its consequences. The report underlines the need to consider satellites not just as research and development systems, but as an important component of a critical communication- and information-based infrastructure for modern societies. The tool box for decision makers that concludes the book reviews different methodological options for deciding on investments in space-based earth observation.


- Climate Change: Trends and Outlook
- Fresh Water Management: Trends and Outlook
- Marine Resources and Maritime Transport: Trends and Outlook
- Capabilities of Space Technologies
- Outlook for Space Technologies
- Tool Box for Policy Makers: Costs, Benefits and Investment Decisions
- Annexes A and B


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Managing Water for All: An OECD Perspective on Pricing and Financing

OECD
March 2009



Water is a key prerequisite for human and economic development, and for maintaining ecosystems. However, billions of people lack access to water and sanitation services, mainly due to poor governance and inadequate investment and maintenance. This report, which emphasises the economic and financial aspects of water resources management and water service provision, the need for an integrated approach (including governance considerations) to address these complex policy challenges, and the importance of establishing a firm evidence base to support policy development and implementation, summarises the results of OECD work in this area.

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Also: Key messages for policy makers

Private Sector Participation in Water Infrastructure: OECD Checklist for Public Action

OECD
March 2009



Many countries have sought the involvement of the private sector to upgrade and develop their water and sanitation infrastructure and improve the efficiency of water systems. This book provides a coherent catalogue of policy directions, including appropriate allocation of roles, risks and responsibilities, framework conditions and contractual arrangements necessary to make the best of private sector participation and to harness more effectively the capacities of all stakeholders.

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Creditor Reporting System on Aid Activities 2008: Aid Activities in Support of Water Supply and Sanitation

OECD
November 2008

This publication presents comprehensive statistics on aid flows in support of water supply and sanitation for the years 2001-2006, including trends in donors' aid and the degree of targeting of countries most in need. Individual donor profiles provide summary statistics in the form of charts and tables, and descriptions of donors' development co-operation policies in the water sector. The publication also records the relevant aid activities reported by DAC members and multilateral institutions to the CRS Aid Activity database (Creditor Reporting System). The information is based on individual commitments and disbursements of Official Development Assistance (ODA) to water supply and sanitation.

This edition is the product of collaboration between the Secretariat of the OECD Development Assistance Committee (DAC) and the World Water Council (WWC).

- Introduction - Basic aspects of the CRS Aid Activity database
- Analysis of aid to the water supply and sanitation sector - 2001-2006
- Donor profiles on aid to the water supply and sanitation sector - Statistics and policy briefs for each DAC member
- List of Aid Activities - 2005
- Reference lists - Aid agencies
- Reference lists - DAC List of ODA Recipients

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Improving Water Management: Recent OECD Experience

OECD
IWA Publishing
2003



This publication brings together the recent work of the OECD on water management issues. It identifies the main policy challenges addressed by that work for sustainable water management. Among the issues discussed are: performance of water management policies in OECD countries; water pricing; financing of water and wastewater infrastructure; water-related development co-operation; the social aspects of water pricing; biochemical technologies for improving water quality; and aid to the water supply and sanitation sector.

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Mapping for Water Supply and Sanitation (WSS) in Ethiopia

RIPPLE
January 2009



In this working paper we highlight ways in which mapping approaches can help Ethiopia achieve the Universal Access Plan for water supply and strengthen links between water and sanitation service delivery and pro-poor growth. The paper is based on experiences of using mapping approaches as part of the RiPPLE project.

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