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1 Wright-Contreras, L.; Perkins, J.; Pascual, M.; Soppe, G. 2020. Water operators’ partnerships and their supporting role in the improvement of urban water supply in Da Nang. International Journal of Water Resources Development, 36(1):1-26. [doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/07900627.2019.1625753]
Water supply ; Partnerships ; Water institutions ; Companies ; Urban areas ; Water quality ; Sustainable Development Goals ; Capacity building ; Performance indexes ; Cost recovery ; Financing ; Funding ; Infrastructure / Vietnam / Da Nang
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H049522)
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/07900627.2019.1625753?needAccess=true#aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cudGFuZGZvbmxpbmUuY29tL2RvaS9wZGYvMTAuMTA4MC8wNzkwMDYyNy4yMDE5LjE2MjU3NTM/bmVlZEFjY2Vzcz10cnVlQEBAMA==
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https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H049522.pdf
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This work analyzes the main outcomes and success factors of the water operators’ partnership (WOP) between the Dutch water operators’ organization, VEI (formerly Vitens Evides International), and the Vietnamese water utility, Da Nang Water Supply Joint Stock Company (Dawaco), which took place from 2007 to 2010. The partnership is considered within broader international and regional funding programmes, including parallel national and regional WOPs. The article presents WOPs as key processes in larger operations of water infrastructure development and considers WOPs as relevant strategies that contribute to the improvement of urban water services at a global scale
2 Trimble, M.; Olivier, T.; Anjos, L. A. P.; Tadeu, N. D.; Giordano, G.; Donnell, L. M.; Laura, R.; Salvadores, F.; Santana-Chaves, I. M.; Torres, P. H. C.; Pascual, M.; Jacobi, P. R.; Mazzeo, N.; Zurbriggen, C.; Garrido, L.; Jobbagy, E.; Pahl-Wostl, C. 2022. How do basin committees deal with water crises? Reflections for adaptive water governance from South America. Ecology and Society, 27(2):42. [doi: https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-13356-270242]
River basins ; Committees ; Water governance ; Centralization ; Water supply ; Watersheds ; Drinking water ; Stakeholders ; Participation ; Case studies / South America / Argentina / Brazil / Uruguay / Chubut River Basin / Piracicaba River Basin / Capivari River Basin / Jundiai River Basin / Laguna del Cisne Basin
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H051463)
https://ecologyandsociety.org/vol27/iss2/art42/ES-2022-13356.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H051463.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H051463.pdf
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Adaptive water governance involves collaboration among multiple actors, social learning, and flexibility to deal with shocks and surprises. Crises thus become a useful context to assess how the institutional arrangements contribute to adaptation. However, an important part of the specialized literature has focused on these issues as they occur in highly institutionalized settings in the Global North. This paper, instead, analyzes basin organizations in settings with variable degrees of institutionalization in South America. The objective is to analyze the actions (or lack thereof) conducted or encouraged by basin committees in watersheds of Argentina, Brazil, and Uruguay, in the face of water crises. We analyze three case studies, involving basin committees that faced different water crises (all affecting drinking water supply) at different scales: (1) Chubut River Basin committee and a turbidity crisis in the Lower Valley in 2017 (Chubut, Argentina), (2) Piracicaba-Capivari-Jundiaí (PCJ) River Basins committee and a drought that occurred in 2014–2015 (São Paulo, Brazil), and (3) Laguna del Cisne Basin commission and a crisis associated with a failure in the water treatment operation in 2019 (Canelones, Uruguay). In each case, we analyze the institutional design of the committee and the actions (or lack thereof) undertaken regarding the crisis, including the perceptions of key stakeholders of those actions. Findings showed that stakeholders tend to act and communicate through fast channels when water crises occur, referring to basin committees only for technical and additional support (Brazil), information sharing (Uruguay), or not convening the committee at all (Argentina). Our cases in South American countries with different contexts provided empirical evidence of the barriers that basin committees face as political– institutional frameworks to foster adaptive water governance (e.g., limited stability, centralization, lack of leadership).
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