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Our course investigates what can be done to address the complex issue of half a billion people worldwide lacking improved water supplies and two billion lacking improved sanitation. We are excited to have you join us. We want to assist you in developing the skills required to address this major global challenge of the twenty-first century.
Our course includes informative video lectures as well as guest interviews with top water policy scholars and practitioners. We will provide you with discussion forum topic prompts that will encourage you to interact with other learners from all over the world. Our MOOC will also require you to complete weekly quizzes and a difficult assignment that addresses a real water and sanitation problem in a difficult setting.
Syllabus :
1. Introducing Key Facts about Water and Sanitation Services
- Welcome to the course - Introduction
- Video 0.1: Welcome to AMBS - Fiona Devine
- Video 1.0: Facts About Water
- Video 1.1: Global Water and Sanitation Coverage
- Video 1.2: Infrastructure Coverage (Electricity, Sewerage, Water, Telephone)
- Video 1.3: Forecasts of Coverage
- Video 1.4: Conversation with Clarissa Brocklehurst
2. Understanding the Political Economy of Water
- Video 2.1: Outrage Versus Strategy?
- Video 2.2: Types of Vendors, Vendor Prices
- Video 2.3: Money and Water Flows, Onitsha, Nigeria
- Video 2.4: An Introduction to Corruption
- Video 2.5: Corruption in South Asia
3. Supply-Side Costs of Water and Sanitation Services
- Video 3.0: The Cost of Serving Households With Piped Networks
- Video 3.1: Solution to Cost Calculation
- Video 3.2: Cost Components and More on Costs
- Video 3.3: Costs of Non-Piped Technologies
- Video 3.4: Condominial sewers, desalination
- Video 3.5: Conversation with Don Lauria - Part One
- Video 3.6: Conversation with Don Lauria - Part Two
4. Understanding Demand-Side Issues of Water Supply
- Video 4.1: Introduction to Modeling Household Water Demand
- Video 4.2: Households With Piped Connections, Price and Income Elasticities
- Video 4.3: Households With Water Sources Outside the Home
- Video 4.4: Household Demand for Drinking Water Quality Improvements
- Video 4.5: Effect of Social Norms on Household Water Use
- Video 4.6: Conversation with Marc Jeuland
5. Exploring Health Benefits and Climate Change Issues
- Video 5.1: Facts About Water and Health
- Video 5.2: Estimating the Economic Value of Health Benefits
- Video 5.3: Exercise on Health vs. Non-Health Benefits for Households With Water Sources Outside the Home
- Video 5.4: Climate Change, Water and Health
- Video 5.5: Effects of Climate Change on Water Utilities
- Video 5.6: Conversation with Clive Agnew
6. Development Paths for Water and Sanitation Services
- Video 6.0: Possible Solutions to the Water Development Paths Exercise
- Video 6.1: A Historical Development Path – UK, London and Manchester
- Video 6.2: Changing Knowledge, Practices and Perceptions
- Video 6.3: Path Dependency
- Video 6.4: Changing Course
- Video 6.5: Capital intensity (England and Wales)
- Video 6.6: Conversation with Marie Hart
- Video 6.7: Wrap-up and Reflections
