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Volumn 29, Issue 2, 2003, Pages

  Bakker, Karen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

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EID: 5444224559     PISSN: 12057398     EISSN: None     Source Type: Trade Journal    
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References (7)

1. The literature on private sector participation in water supply is extensive; only a few publications can be mentioned here. For a survey of trends in private sector participation in the water sector, see G. Silva, N. Tynan, and Y. Yilmaz. "Private Participation in the Water and Sewerage Sector: Recent Trends," Public Policy for the Private Sector (Washington, DC: World Bank Group, Note 147, 1998), pp. 1-8.
2. For analyses of private sector participation in developing countries, see Private Firms and Public Water: Realising Social and Environmental Objectives in Developing Countries, N. Johnstone and L. Woods, eds., (London: Edward Elgar, 2001).
3. For an analysis of the impact of privatization on water pricing and consumers, see K. Bakker "Paying for Water: Water Prices and Social Justice in England and Wales," Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 26:2 (2001), pp. 143-64.
4. The Dublin Principles state: "Fresh water is a finite and vulnerable resource, essential to sustain life, development and the environment; Water development and management should be based on a participatory approach, involving users, planners and policy makers at all levels; Women play a central part in the provision, management and safeguarding of water; Water has an economic value in all its competing uses and should be recognized as an economic good."
5. The Ministerial Declaration of the Hague on Water Security in the 21st century followed the interministerial meeting known as the "2nd World Water Forum" in 2000. See .
6. The P7 (now P8) annual conference was convened for the first time in June 1997 by the Green Group in the European Parliament, as an alternative Summit to the G7 (now G8). Representatives from the world's poorest countries attend the conferences, which focus on the structural causes of and solutions to poverty.
7. See, for example, A. Estache and C. Rossi, "How Different Is the Efficiency of Public and Private Water Companies in Asia?" World Bank Economic Review, 16:1 (2002), pp. 139-48.