The World Bank has just published online its 2010 report Africa’s Infrastructure: A Time for Transformation. The current situation is really very depressing but the report is wholly realistic about the need for Transformation and how it might be achieved. The chapters on water supply and sanitation are well worth reading, as are the 2008 water supply and sanitation background papers. The 2008 report Cost Recovery, Equity, and Efficiency in Water Tariffs: Evidence from African Utilities is also very good.
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PS: Today is International Anticorruption Day.
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About Me
- Duncan Mara
- University of Leeds, United Kingdom
- I'm an emeritus professor of civil engineering at the University of Leeds in England. I've been working on low-cost sanitation in developing countries since the mid-1970s, and also on low-cost wastewater treatment and reuse. I was a lecturer at the University of Nairobi, Kenya, 1970-73 and then a senior lecturer at the University of Dundee, Scotland, 1974-79 before moving to Leeds in late 1979. I was a visiting professor of sanitary engineering at the Universidade Federal da Paraiba in Campina Grande, northeast Brazil, during 1976-95, and since 1996 I have been a visiting professor of environmental engineering at the Instituto Cinara, Universidad del Valle in Cali, Colombia.