Rehabilitation of aging urban water systems: Strategic thinking required

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    Abstract

    This paper highlights the fundamental and invaluable role of water services in human settlements and community development. The paper aims at revealing the reasons behind aging infrastructure, the major challenge of the sector worldwide, and finding alternative strategies and means for resolving them. The authors argue that the problems of water services are largely related to management, institutions, organizations, and policies. In many ways, the requirement to see water services in a wider institutional framework is analogical to the proposed framework of Integrated Urban Water Management. The paper first explores the exceptionally long timeframe of water services management, followed by frameworks on core and non-core operations of water utilities in relation to the roles of major parties in municipal decision-making. For solving the major problems of water services both political and professional will is needed, educational programs are to be revised, and better rules of the game (institutions) are needed together with additional inputs on Research and Development activities.

    Original languageEnglish
    Article number230
    Number of pages8
    JournalGeosciences
    Volume8
    Issue number7
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 1 Jul 2018
    Publication typeA2 Review article in a scientific journal

    Keywords

    • Competence
    • Educational reforms
    • Political will
    • Professional will
    • Strategic functions

    Publication forum classification

    • Publication forum level 1

    ASJC Scopus subject areas

    • General Earth and Planetary Sciences

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