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Policy on Water Supply and Sanitation in Developing Countries Part 2 of our two-part MOOC series focuses on ‘Developing Effective Interventions.' Here, we invite you to hone your analytical skills and gain a thorough understanding of a complex, contentious policy issue that has no simple, straightforward solutions. Approximately half a billion people on our planet still do not have access to improved water supplies, and approximately two billion do not have improved sanitation services, resulting in an unknown but very large number of avoidable deaths from water-related diseases each year. Millions of dollars are wasted on unnecessary health-care costs, and people – primarily women – spend billions of hours carrying water from sources outside the home. Reduced costs are a major global challenge for all of us in the twenty-first century. Join us as we investigate the difficult and complex political, economic, social, and technical dimensions of the policy interventions used by donors, national governments, and water utilities to address this challenge.
Syllabus :
1. Introduction and how our ‘ancient instincts’ affect water policy intervention
- Welcome to the course - Introduction
- Video 1-0 Introducing the role of ancient instincts
- Video 1-1 Ancient instincts 1: State and public rejection of water policy proposals
- Video 1-2 Ancient instincts 2: Examples
- Video 1-3 Ancient instincts 3: Water-related
- Video 1-4 Ancient instincts 4: Water policy-related
2. Planning better policy interventions: Roles, features and examples of planning protocols
- Video 2-0 Does better planning result in better outcomes? An example from Bolivia
- Video 2-1 Four types of planning protocols commonly used around the world
- Video 2-2 Demand-driven planning: Designing for community preferences and affordability
- Video 2-3 Do demand-driven planning protocols work? Evidence from Bolivia, Ghana and Peru
- Video 2-4 When do participatory, demand-driven approaches work best? Evidence from a World Bank study
- Video 2-5 Conversation between Arif Hasan and Diana Mitlin on participation
3. Roles, features and problems of water pricing, tariff design and subsidies
- Video 3-0 Introducing municipal water pricing and tariff design
- Video 3-1 What are the objectives of tariff design?
- Video 3-2 Possible types of tariff structures
- Video 3-3 Current tariff structures in low and middle-income countries
- Video 3-4 Problems with increasing block tariffs (IBTs)
- Video 3-5 Designing and targeting subsidies in the water and sanitation sector in LDCs
- Video 3-6 Distribution of subsidies in Chile and Colombia
- Video 3-7 Evidence on subsidy schemes in Chile and Colombia
- Video 3-8 Designing improved water subsidy schemes
4. Providing information to households and communities to improve water and sanitation conditions
- Video 4-0 Introduction to information treatments as a policy intervention
- Video 4-1 Information treatment Case 1: In-house water quality testing
- Video 4-2 Information treatment Case 2: Information provision via water bills and evidence from OWASA, Chapel Hill, USA
- Video 4-3 Information treatment Case 3: Community-Led Total Sanitation (CLTS)
- Video 4-4 Information treatment Case 3: Evidence from CLTS in Mali, West Africa
- Video 4-5 Information treatment Case 4: Information provision via water bills in Jerico, Colombia
- Video 4-6 Information treatment Case 4: UN Declaration on the Human Right to Water
- Video 4-7 Conversation with Barbara Evans on CLTS4
- Video 4-8 Conservation with Kamal Kar on CLTS (in 7 parts)
5. Changing the institutions that deliver water and sanitation services: Privatization in lesser developing countries
- Video 5-0 Introduction to public private partnerships (PPP)
- Video 5-1 The seven main types of PPP deal structures
- Video 5-2 Some challenges of PPPs from the private operator’s perspective
- Video 5-3 Do PPPs improve performance? Evidence from a World Bank study
- Video 5-4 Comparative experiences with PPPs in the water and sanitation sector: China versus India
- Video 5-5 Conversation with Wu Xun on privatization in China and India
- Video 5-6 Conversation with Leong Ching on the devil’s shift in water privatization in Jakarta, Indonesia
- Video 5-7 Conversation with Eduardo Araral on water privatization in Manila, Republic of the Philippines
6. Changing institutions: Lessons from the UK water privatization story
- Video 6-0 The significance of institutional change in the UK water sector: Privatization and regulation
- Video 6-1 The historical setting and promises of the UK privatization programme
- Video 6-2 Why full divestiture for the England and Wales water industry? Four prerequisites
- Video 6-3 Determining a sale price for the England and Wales water industry
- Video 6-4 Some outcomes of UK water privatization, part 1: Good news
- Video 6-5 Some outcomes of UK water privatization, part 2: Bad news
- Video 6-6 Some outcomes of UK water privatization, part 3: Unclear future?
7. Changing institutions: Improving regulation of the water and sanitation sector
- Video 7-0 Regulation of the water utilities in LDCs
- Video 7-1 UK water regulation 1: The original vision
- Video 7-2 UK water regulation 2: Evolution in practice, 1989 to 2016
- Video 7-3 UK water regulation 3: Innovation and future challenges
- Video 7-4 Conservation with Stephen Littlechild on inventing the UK regulatory model1h
- Video 7-5 Conservation with Regina Finn on reforming UK water regulation
- Video 7-6 The case of Phnom Penh, Cambodia
- Video 7-7 Part 2 MOOC Overall Wrap-up
- Part 1: Definitions and terminology: ‘Virtual water’, publishing it and its critiques; blue, green, big and small water; problem-sheds and watersheds; valuing labour, land and water
- Part 2: Global ‘virtual water’ solutions for agricultural ‘big water’ and local solutions for urban ‘small water’
- Part 3: Politics, risks and communities around water and food security: Water, environmental and financial accountants; food producers, markets and consumers
- Part 4: Global trends in water and food: Food security, population, virtual water trade, international relations and peace
- Part 5: New technologies and approaches for global challenges around water scarcity: Urban water recycling and desalination in Israel
- Part 6: Ancient instincts, entitlement to water, privatisation, and remaining unaware of ‘big water’ in food
- Part 7: ‘Virtual water’ as an inter-disciplinary innovation for water policy and water politics
- Part 8: Water metrics for ‘virtual water’: Origins, uptake and impact of water footprinting
- Part 9: Professor Allan’s university working conditions when ‘virtual water’ was invented and adopted
- Part 10: Professor Allan’s advice for students to become creative, courageous, well-read and effective water policy researchers
