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Water and Sanitation Infrastructure Planning in Developing Countries

Subject: Management

Art: Bernard Ratzer, Plan of the City of New York, in North America surveyed in the Years…, 1767 · Public domain

Instructor: Prof. Jennifer Davis
Term: Spring 2005
Level: Graduate
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Water and Sanitation Infrastructure Planning in Developing Countries

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Lecture 1: Introduction to the Class State of the World’s Water and Sanitation Infrastructure Problem Identification

Lecture 2: An Introduction to Water Supply and Sanitation Technologies: Guest Speaker: Prof. Susan Murcott

Lecture 3: How to Define and Measure Access to Water Supply and Sanitation

Lecture 4: Goals of W&S Investment: Human Health and Productivity Gains, the Environment

Lecture 5: The Millennium Development Goals for Water and Sanitation

Lecture 6: Stakeholder Analysis: Actors in Water and Sanitation Infrastructure Planning and their Objectives

Lecture 7: Institutional Options for W&S Planning and Policy in Developing Countries: Decentralization, Community Management, Privatization, etc.

Lecture 8: The Evolution of W&S Infrastructure Planning in Developing Countries: Supply versus Demand-oriented Approaches

Lecture 9: Discussion of Policy Memo 1

Lecture 10: Urban Sanitation Projects with Community Participation: Experiences from Brazil: Guest Speaker: Prof. Earthea Nance, Virginia Tech

Lecture 11: Providing Water and Sanitation Services to the Poor: Strategies and Obstacles

Lecture 12: Guest Speaker: Dale Whittington, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill

Lecture 13: Community Participation in Water Supply and Sanitation: Alternative Models and Outcomes

Lecture 14: Financing and Pricing of Water and Sanitation Services

Lecture 15: Revisiting the Privatization Debate

Lecture 16: W&S Planning and the Environment

Lecture 17: Discussion of Policy Memo 2 Wrap-up Discussion