Remunicipalisation : putting water back into public hands

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2012

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Transnational Institute, Amsterdam

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The reasons for remunicipalisation stem in no small part from the failures of water privatisation. This book advances academic and policy debates about public water services by tightening conceptual understanding of remunicipalisation and situating the discussion within a larger body of literature on ‘alternatives to privatisation.’ A geographically dispersed set of examples is presented: sites in Europe (Paris), Africa (Dar es Salaam), Latin America (Buenos Aires), North America (Hamilton), and Asia (Malaysia), with very different political, economic and geophysical contexts. In four of the five cases, the (near) collapse of privatisation precipitated the move to remunicipalise.

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WATER SUPPLY, MUNICIPAL SERVICES, PUBLIC SERVICES, PRIVATIZATION, CASE STUDIES, ACCESS TO WATER, RIGHT TO WATER, MUNICIPAL GOVERNMENT, PARIS, DAR ES SALAAM, BUENOS AIRES, CANADA, GLOBAL SOUTH, SERVICE DELIVERY

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http://hdl.handle.net/10625/49061

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IDRC Research Results / Résultats de recherches du CRDI
2010-2019 / Années 2010-2019
Research Results (GEHS) / Résultats de recherches (GESS)