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Article: India: Waste deep in water.
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- Article date:
- November 7, 2009
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Byline: deepak03
How will India supply drinking water in cities? Many would argue that the problem is not so much that of inadequate water as it is of the lack of investment in building infrastructure in cities and the lack of manegerial capacities to operate the systems, once created. This then logically leads to policy reform, to invite private investment and hand over public water utilities to private parties to operate.
As a result, private-public partnerships have become the buzzword in water-management circles. The problem is that this strategy assumes too much, knows too little. It has no clue about the political economy of water or sewage in ...