Urban water conflicts / edited by Bernard Barraqué.

"A Balkema book."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Machine generated contents note: 1.1. UNESCO-IHP Taskforce on Urban Water Conflicts -- 1.2. Socioeconomic and institutional aspects of urban water management -- 1.3. Definition of urban water: an impure public good -- 1.4.A few methodologies for analysing urban water conflicts -- 1.5. Conclusions -- 2.1. Introduction -- 2.2. Governments intervene to provide long distance supply of clean water -- 2.3. From quantity at a distance to quality close at hand -- 2.4. The crisis of municipal water supply services -- 2.5. European water services and the three Es of sustainability -- 2.6. The new social issue of sustainability -- 2.7. Conclusion -- 4.1. Urban water supply before 1830 -- 4.2. The rise of the public water utility, 1830-1920 -- 4.3. Expansion of water supply systems, 1920-1945 -- 4.4. Metropolitan expansion and new demands on water supplies, 1945-1970 -- 4.5. From infrastructure crisis to privatization, 1970-2004 -- 4.6. Conclusion -- 5.1. Corpus and context -- 5.2. The origin of conflicts: is drinking water a profit-oriented service? -- 5.3. CE position: under a concession contract, drinking water is a profit-oriented activity -- 5.3.1. Amendments should be negotiated by the parties on the grounds of the initial contract's status quo -- 5.3.2. Local authorities had no right to renegotiate access to private service -- 5.3.3. The CE restrictions on contract termination -- 5.4. The consequence of CE decisions on water supply management -- 5.5. Conclusion -- 6.1.A century of Portuguese water services: evolution, accomplishments and failures -- 6.2. The Lisbon water story -- 6.2.1. Liberal waters (1858-1926) -- 6.2.2. Authoritarian waters (1926-1974) -- 6.2.3. Democratic waters (1974-2006) -- 6.3. Urban water conflicts: from the unfinished welfare state to the new regulatory state -- 6.4. Concluding remarks: hidden conflicts or potential conflicts? -- 7.1. Introduction -- 7.2. The institutional conflicts and challenges -- 7.3. Economic conflicts and challenges -- 7.4. Socio-environmental challenges and conflicts: social inequality and environmental degradation -- 7.5. New opportunities in water and services management: regulation and conflict-resolution -- 8.1. Introduction -- 8.1.1. The social urban context -- 8.1.2. Water services before privatization -- 8.1.3. The private sector operating the largest water concession in the world -- 8.1.4. Development of the chapter -- 8.2. Economic sustainability issues leading to political conflict and conflict among users -- 8.2.1. Financing the expansion of the network: the SUMA conflict -- 8.2.2. Devaluation of the Argentinean peso: renegotiation of the concession contract -- 8.3. Social sustainability issues: bringing water services to the poor -- 8.3.1. Bringing water and sewerage networks to poor neighbourhoods -- 8.3.2. The social tariff: a response to the recent inability of Argentina's middle class to cope with the water bill -- 8.4. The evolution of the 'environmental question' in the context of the water sector privatization and the concession process -- 8.4.1. Water table rise, flooding and environmental conflict -- 8.4.2. Urban water conflict and environmental conflict: the Lomas de Zamora Water Forum -- 8.4.3. The 'environmental problem' and the need for a responding institution -- 8.5. Conclusion -- 9.1. Introduction -- 9.2. Urban water conflicts in Mexico from a historical perspective -- 9.3. Urban water conflict events in Mexico -- 9.4. Explaining urban water conflicts -- 9.5. Concluding remarks -- 10.1. Background to the South African water context -- 10.2. Case study 1: Johannesburg -- 10.2.1. Institutional profile of water service provision in Johannesburg -- 10.2.2. The Gcin' Amanzi Project -- 10.2.3.Community response -- 10.3. Case study 2: Cape Town -- 10.3.1. The state of municipal debt: the driver behind Cape Town's WDM approach -- 10.3.2. Mfuleni pilot project -- 10.3.3. Water saving device options -- 10.4. CSO response -- 10.5. The political terrain of the two cities -- 10.6. Conclusion -- 11.1. Water supply systems in urban areas with no network connection -- 11.1.1. Dispelling a myth: the spread of public-private partnerships from large cities -- 11.1.2. Project-based rationale and systems involving decentralized players: behind the profusion, a model -- 11.2. The limitations of community-based privatization -- 11.1.1. Dysfunctions of the model -- 11.2.2 ... or an unsuitable model? -- 11.3. The community-based model versus the public model: ideological domination at stake -- 11.3.1. The need for efficient sectoral approaches and depoliticization of management -- 11.3.2. The supposed advantages of community-based regulation -- 11.3.3.A deep distrust of local public authorities -- 11.4. Conclusion -- 12.1. Introduction: watering Jakarta -- 12.2. Splintered urbanism: fragmented access to urban water supply -- 12.3. Urban governance: the production of thirst -- 12.4. Going private: conflict over the water supply concession contract for the city of Jakarta -- 12.4.1. The private sector participation contract in Jakarta -- 12.4.2. Re-regulation: tariffs, profits and conflictual re-negotiation of the contract -- 12.4.3. Conflicts with water utility workers: labour-led protests and unrest -- 12.4.4. Connecting the poor? Conflict over tariffs and pricing -- 12.4.5. Pro-poor initiatives -- 12.5. Conclusions: governance failure -- 13.1. Introduction -- 13.2. Our understanding of urban water conflicts -- 13.3. The issue of water access in Delhi -- 13.3.1. Users' strategies and cross-bred networks -- 13.3.2. The question of sustainability -- 13.3.3.A chaotic reform process and unexpected outcomes -- 13.4. Chennai: expanding needs and growing conflicts with peri-urban users -- 13.4.1. The central role of the peripheral groundwater -- 13.4.2. Short-term winners and losers: a transition towards conflict? -- 13.5. Conclusion: a common framework of weak and ineffective conflict resolution mechanisms -- 14.1. Water development and the environment -- 14.2. Water in California and the transfer from agriculture to urban areas -- 14.3. Introduction to the Imperial Valley case -- 14.4. The decision-making process leading to trading -- 14.5. Decision-making in San Diego -- 14.6. Institutions, spatial scale and inter-regional relations -- 14.7. Conclusion -- 15.1. The weaving of Penelope -- 15.2. Path towards the reform: the crisis of the traditional model -- 15.3. The reform -- 15.4.A new model for providing WSS: challenges and trade-offs -- 15.5. Implementing the WFD: the first challenge for the privatized water system -- 15.6. Conclusions -- 16.1. Introduction -- 16.2. The German water market in transition: the main transformations in water supply and wastewater disposal -- 16.3. From 'flourishing landscapes' to shrinking regions: post-reunification developments in Eastern Germany -- 16.4. Conflicts about infrastructure supply and privatization: the case of Brandenburg and Frankfurt (Oder) -- 16.5. Learning from shrinking regions -- 17.1. Introduction -- 17.2. Sustainability and carrying capacity in the water domain -- 17.3. The parabola of urban water systems -- 17.3.1. The 'further from farther' crisis -- 17.3.2. Modernization and sustainability of urban water management -- 17.3.3. Drivers of modernization -- 17.4. Towards a general understanding of UWC -- 17.4.1. Conflicts as indicators of urban water sustainability -- 17.4.2. Interpretative frames: actors in conflict -- 17.4.3. Interpretative frames: categories of conflict.