Overview
- Discusses global progress towards fulfilling SDG 6
- Proposes alternative solutions to lack of funding
- Examines the reasons why countries are failing at implementing safe and sustainable water and sanitation for all
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Natural Resource Management (PSNRM)
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Is safe and sustainable water and sanitation for all an unaffordable pipedream? This book surveys the worldwide development of water and sewage services and the challenges in meeting Sustainable Development Goal 6 (SDG6) along with climate change, population growth and urbanisation. It explores the reasons why current SDG6 progress is failing, including weak policy implementation, staff shortages and inadequate funding, as well as the limited impact of aid funding. The author contends that despite a series of innovations, debt finance remains too small to address needs of developing economies. Therefore, instead of advocating new funding, this book proposes addressing the funding gap through technological innovation and more efficient management and procurement through a series of examples that have challenged traditional assumptions.
After four decades of good intentions, SDG6 is making a difference in monitoring shortfalls for the first time, allowing for more effective responses. This book outlines the role of innovation in hardware development, procurement and installation, and discusses how network management and operations can most effectively address funding gaps. The potential for savings is considerable, if effectively replicated. New approaches are driving forward affordable resilience, including nature-based solutions such as upstream habitat enhancement to retain water and improve downstream water quality; the circular economy, including water, nutrient, energy and heat recovery from wastewater; and demand management. This book will be of great value to scholars, policy makers and practitioners interested in the global finance of sustainable water and sanitation.
After four decades of good intentions, SDG6 is making a difference in monitoring shortfalls for the first time, allowing for more effective responses. This book outlines the role of innovation in hardware development, procurement and installation, and discusses how network management and operations can most effectively address funding gaps. The potential for savings is considerable, if effectively replicated. New approaches are driving forward affordable resilience, including nature-based solutions such as upstream habitat enhancement to retain water and improve downstream water quality; the circular economy, including water, nutrient, energy and heat recovery from wastewater; and demand management. This book will be of great value to scholars, policy makers and practitioners interested in the global finance of sustainable water and sanitation.
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Keywords
- water funding
- water finance
- water resource management
- water governance
- sanitation
- sustainable water access
- water infrastructure
- sustainable development goals
- smart water
- SDG6
- energy and heat recovery from wastewater
- nature-based solutions
- upstream habitat enhancement
- circular economy
- Envisager
- Environmental Geography
Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
David Lloyd Owen runs Envisager, advising multilaterals, governments, companies and financiers about water regulation, economics and policy. He sits on the Advisory Board of the Pictet Water Fund and has previously authored Smart Water Technologies and Techniques: Data Capture and Analysis for Sustainable Water Management (2018).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Global Water Funding
Book Subtitle: Innovation and efficiency as enablers for safe, secure and affordable supplies
Authors: David Lloyd Owen
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Natural Resource Management
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-49454-4
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-49453-7Published: 30 July 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-49456-8Published: 31 July 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-49454-4Published: 29 July 2020
Series ISSN: 2946-4331
Series E-ISSN: 2946-434X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXIX, 372
Topics: Environmental Economics, Water, general, Environmental Geography, Development Studies