Water Insecurity and Sanitation in Asia - Book Summary

As Asia rapidly urbanizes, providing water and sanitation services has become problematic.

Most developing country governments in the region cannot deliver the required services themselves, and the private sector is reluctant to invest due to the risks and low returns, especially for sanitation. Public–private partnerships in water supply and sanitation have had mixed results, making sustainable sanitation a particularly challenging problem.

Fortunately, there are new and innovative ways to solve the problem of sustainable financing for water and sanitation services. This book brings together a collection of studies that discuss the recent developments in the water and sanitation sector in Asia and, most importantly, identify their spillover effects. This first attempt of its kind aims to give budget-constrained policy makers the incentive to introduce these approaches for the sustainable financing of infrastructure and, in particular, water and sanitation.

Contents 

• PART I: Introduction
• 1. Overview of Water Insecurity and Sanitation in Asia by Eduardo Araral, Naoyuki Yoshino, and KE Seetha Ram
• 2. Literature Review Evaluating New Approaches to Resolving the Sanitation Challenge in Developing Asia by Vedanti Kelkar and KE Seetha Ram
• 3. Encouraging Private Financing for the Supply of Water through Spillover Tax Revenues by Naoyuki Yoshino, Masaki Nakahigashi, Umid Abidhadjaev, and Kai Xu
• PART II: International Case Studies
• 4. Quantifying the Economic Spillover Effect for Citywide Fecal Sludge Management Programs by David Robbins, KE Seetha Ram, and Nuobu Renzhi
• 5. Socioeconomic Spillovers Resulting from the Functioning of Sewage Treatment Plants in Jaipur, India: A Case Study of the Delawas Plant by Monika Sogani and Anil Dutt Vyas
• 6. Baseline Study on the Drinking Water Quality, Sanitation, and Hygiene Status of Selected Schools in Varanasi, India and the Consequent Impact on Gender Parity by Meenu Gautam, Abha Maurya, and Madhoolika Agrawal
• 7. Water Supply and Sanitation: PPP “Good Practices” from India by Tamanna M. Shah
• 8. Distributional Equity in the Urban Public Water Supply in Kathmandu, Nepal by Aditi Raina, Bhim Suwal, and Yogendra Gurung
• 9. A Spatial Panel Modeling of Water and Sanitation Insecurity and Policy Implications in South Asia: Evidence from Bangladesh by M. Mizanur Rahman Sarker and Hidetoshi Yamashita
• 10. Water Policy and Institutions in the Republic of Korea by Namsoo Lee
• 11. Sanitation and Sewerage Management in Malaysia by Dorai Narayana
• 12. Institutional Mechanisms for Sustainable Sanitation: Lessons from Japan for Other Asian Countries by Kazushi Hashimoto
• PART III: Policy Perspectives
• 13. Understanding Behavior Change for Ending Open Defecation in Rural India: A Review of India’s Sanitation Policy Efforts by Ankur Gautam
• 14. Assessing the Double Injustice of Climate Change and Urbanization on Water Security in Peri-urban Areas: Creating Citizen-Centric Scenarios by Arvind Lakshmisha, Priyanka Agarwal, and Manasi Nikam
• 15. The Water Conundrum in India: An Institutional Perspective by Piyush Tiwari
• 16. Water Security Assessments in Central Asia: Research and Policy Implications by Stefanos Xenarios, Jenniver Sehring, Aliya Assubayeva, Dietrich Schmidt-Vogt, Iskandar Abdullaev, and Eduardo Araral
• PART IV: Conclusion
• 17. Policy and the Role of the Asia-Pacific Water Forum and International Institutions Focused on the Sustainable Development Goals by Ravi Narayanan
• 18. Conclusions and the Way Forward by Eduardo Araral, Naoyuki Yoshino, and KE Seetha Ram

SOURCE ASIA DEVELOPMENT BANK and the National University of Singapore

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• Water Security
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