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Urban Water Conflicts
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1 Urban water conflicts: Background and conceptual framework
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 Urban water conflicts in recent European history: Changing interactions between technology, environment and society
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

3 Water, public responsibility and equity: The Barcelona `water war’ of the 1990s

4 Full circle? Public responsibility versus privatization of water supplies in the United States
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 46
4.6 Conclusion

5 Public-private partnership in courts: The rise and fall of concessions to supply drinking water in France (1875–1928)
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 In search of (hidden) Portuguese urban water conflicts: The Lisbon water story (1856–2006)
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 Water supply services in the cities of Brazil: Conflicts, challenges and new opportunities in regulation
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 Urban water conflicts in Buenos Aires: Voices questioning the sustainability of the water and sewerage concession
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 In search of meaningful interdisciplinarity: Understanding urban water conflicts in Mexico
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 Conflict versus cooperation between the state and civil society: A water-demand management comparison between Cape Town and Johannesburg, South Africa
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 161
10.6 Conclusion

11 Conflicts of influence and competing models: The boom in community-based privatization of water services in sub-Saharan Africa
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
11.2.1 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 Governance failure: Urban water and conflict in Jakarta, Indonesia
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 Man-made scarcity, unsustainability and urban water conflicts in Indian cities
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 Urban water conflicts in the western US
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 Urban water reform in Italy: A live bomb behind outward unanimity
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 Water infrastructures between commercialization and shrinking: The case of Eastern Germany
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 Urban water conflicts and sustainability: An ecological-economic approach
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

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CNRS, LATTS - Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussees, Marne la Vallee, France

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