Perspectives are different frameworks from which to explore the knowledge around sustainable sanitation and water management. Perspectives are like filters: they compile and structure the information that relate to a given focus theme, region or context. This allows you to quickly navigate to the content of your particular interest while promoting the holistic understanding of sustainable sanitation and water management.
This paper presents a case for removing metropolitan permanent water restrictions by 2012. To achieve this goal, a water industry reform will need to be pursued on a number of fronts.
ALLEN CONSULTING (2007): Saying Goodbye to Permanent Water Restrictions in Australia's Cities. Key Priorities for Achieving Water Security. URL [Accessed: 03.05.2019]
This brief explores the role of water tariffs and subsidies as key instrument to achieve the objective of providing safe and affordable drinking water to residents of growing urban areas in developing countries.
BLANC, D. le (2007): Providing Water to the Urban Poor in Developing Countries: The Role of Tariffs and Subsidies. In: Sustainable Development Innovation Brief: Volume 4 URL [Accessed: 03.05.2019]The website of UN DESA (UN Department of Economic and Social Affaires) contains a section dedicated to water issues, including publications about water tariffs and subsidies in the provision of water services in developing countries.
This paper presents a case for removing metropolitan permanent water restrictions by 2012 in Australian cities. To achieve this goal, a water industry reform will need to be pursued on a number of fronts.
ALLEN CONSULTING (2007): Saying Goodbye to Permanent Water Restrictions in Australia's Cities. Key Priorities for Achieving Water Security. ALLEN CONSULTING URL [Accessed: 03.05.2019]
This paper focuses on the role of prices in the water sector and how they can be used to promote equity, efficiency, and sustainability.
ROGERS, P. ; SILVA, R. de ; BATHIA, R. (2001): Water is an Economic Good: How to use Prices to Promote Equity, Efficiency, and Sustainability. In: Water Policy : Volume 4 , 1–17. URL [Accessed: 03.05.2019]
Short fact sheet to raise awareness on how urban runoffs pollute water.
US EPA (2003): Protecting Water Quality from Urban Runoff. Washington, DC: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) URL [Accessed: 02.05.2019]
Short fact sheet to raise farmers’ awareness on how their agricultural runoffs pollute water.
US EPA (2005): Protecting Water Quality from Agricultural Runoff. Washington, DC: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) URL [Accessed: 02.05.2019]
Case study where states, tribes, and regions share information about regulatory tools for facilitating progress towards meeting the U.S. Clean Water Act goals, particularly in harmed water bodies.
US EPA (2005): Water Quality Standards: Examples of Alternatives to Changing Long-term Designated Uses to Achieve Water Quality Goals. Washington, DC: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) URL [Accessed: 02.05.2019]
This is a guide to help the agricultural advisors understand that water quality is not only useful to improve their production and to take care of the environment, but also to trade. Producers could earn even more for, aiming towards the best practical technology.
CTIC (2006): Getting Paid for Stewardship: An Agricultural Community Water Quality Trading Guide. Conservation Technology Information Center (CTIC) URL [Accessed: 02.05.2019]
Many cities today try to reduce runoff of water and pollutants from the site at which they are generated. This document explains how this can be done.
US EPA (2007): Reducing Stormwater Costs through Low Impact Development (LID) Strategies and PracticesReducing Stormwater Costs through Low Impact Development (LID) Strategies and Practices. Washington, DC: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) URL [Accessed: 02.05.2019]
Short factsheet to sensitise USA tribal communities on how they can get help to implement water quality standards in their region.
US EPA (2002): How Water Quality Standards Protect Tribal Waters. Washington, DC: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) URL [Accessed: 02.05.2019]
This study shows by using cultural education programs, property owners can be convinced that they also gain economically when they take actions to protect lake water quality.
MICHAEL, H.J. BOYLE, J.K. BOUCHARD, R. (1996): Water Quality Affects Property Prices: a Case Study of Selected Maine Lakes. Maine Agricultural and Forest Experiment Station. University of Maine URL [Accessed: 02.05.2019]
This document provides technical information to TMDL practitioners who are familiar with the relevant technical approaches and legal requirements pertaining to developing TMDLs and refers to statutory and regulatory provisions that contain legally binding requirements.
EPA (2008): Handbook for Developing Watershed Total Maximum Daily Loads (TMDLs). Draft. Washington, DC: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) URL [Accessed: 02.05.2019]
This is summary of a case study. The tribes wish to maintain the integrity of their streams and the high quality of Flathead Lake, the largest natural freshwater lake in the western United States. Common pollutants threaten the quality of these waters. The tribes have established a water quality standards program to preserve the high quality waters and restore those that have been degraded.
US EPA (2006): Case Studies in Tribal Water Quality Standards Programs. Confederated Salish & Kootenai Tribes of the Flathead Reservation. Washington, DC: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) URL [Accessed: 02.05.2019]
Paper describing the Mechanisms of Command & Control in combination with other SSWM tools in Brazil.
PORTO, M. ; LOBATO, F. (2004): Mechanisms of Water Management: Command & Control and Social Mechanisms (Part 1 of 2). In: REGA (Revista de Gestão de Água da América Latina) : Volume 1 , 113-129. URL [Accessed: 02.05.2019]The International Institute for Sustainable Development’s Global Subsidies Initiative (GSI) is a project designed to put the spotlight on subsidies and the corrosive effects they can have on environmental quality, economic development and governance.
Since the 1980s, the Swiss federal government has actively pursued a policy to reduce the emission of pollutants from heating systems. The program bases upon three measures, which are regulatory in nature: emission thresholds, systems inspections with permits and heating controls.
KAUFMANN-HAYOZ, R. BAETTIG, C. BRUPPACHER, S. DEFILA, R. DI GIULIO, A. FLURY-KLEUBER, P. FRIEDERICH, U. GARBELY, M. JAEGGI, C. JEGEN, M. MOSLER, H.J. MUELLER, A. NORTH, N. ULLI-BEER, S. WICHTERMANN, J. (2001): A Typology of Tools for Building Sustainability Strategies. In: KAUFMANN-HAYOZ, R. ; GUTSCHER, H. (2001): Changing Things – Moving People. Strategies for Promoting Sustainable Development at the Local Level. Basel: 33-108. URL [Accessed: 29.04.2019]