Documents et rapports
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Flowing forward : freshwater ecosystem adaptation to climate change in water resources management and biodiversity conservation (anglais)
The impacts of climate change on freshwater ecosystems will be complex and hard to predict. These impacts will lead to changes in the quantity, quality, and timing of water. Changes will be driven by shifts...
Type de document: Document de travail (série numérotée) Numéro du rapport: 58213 Date du document: 1 novembre 2010 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Quesne, Tom Le,Matthews, John H.,Heyden, Constantin Von der,Wickel, A.J.,Wilby,Robert Leonard,Hartmann, Joerg,Pegram, Guy,Kistin, Elizabeth,Blate, Geoffrey,Freitas, Glauco Kimura de,Levine, Eliot,Guthrie, Carla,Mcsweeney,Catherine S.,Sindorf, Nikolai
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Private providers of climate change services : the role and scope for the private sector in the provision of non-financial climate change-related services relevant to water infrastructure (anglais)
Man-made climate change is affecting water infrastructure in all regions of the world, affecting large numbers of people in their daily life and the development of their societies. As part of the World...
Type de document: Document de travail (série numérotée) Numéro du rapport: 55571 Date du document: 1 juin 2010 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Winpenny, J.T.
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Water and climate change : impacts on groundwater resources and adaptation options (anglais)
Adaptation to climate impacts on groundwater resources in developed and developing countries has not received adequate attention. This reflects the often poorly understood impacts of climate change, the...
Type de document: Document de travail (série numérotée) Numéro du rapport: 55027 Date du document: 1 juin 2010 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Clifton, Craig,Evans, Rick,Hayes, Susan,Hirji,Rafik Fatehali,Pizarro,Carolina,Puz,Gabrielle Louise
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Modeling for watershed management : a practitioner's guide (anglais)
Watershed management problems are usually quite diverse, and involve a wide range of biological, geological, chemical, and physical processes with complex human, social, and economic contexts. The working...
Type de document: Document de travail (série numérotée) Numéro du rapport: 55572 Date du document: 1 juin 2010 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Lund,Jay R.,Scheierling,Susanne M.,Milne,Grant
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Climate change and urban water utilities : challenges and opportunities (anglais)
This report is part of a larger World Bank effort that seeks to provide analytical and strategic assistance to Bank staff and utilities in client countries as they begin to consider the implications of...
Type de document: Document de travail (série numérotée) Numéro du rapport: 54235 Date du document: 1 avril 2010 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Danilenko,Alexander V.,Dickson,Eric,Jacobsen,Michael Peter Steen
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Template for assessing the governance of public water supply and sanitation service providers (anglais)
This note proposes a template for assessing the governance of urban water supply and sanitation (WSS) service providers and its impact of the quality of service and performance of operations. The template...
Type de document: Document de travail (série numérotée) Numéro du rapport: 52912 Date du document: 1 janvier 2010 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Locussol,Alain R.,Van Ginneken,Meike
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Integrating environmental flows into hydropower dam planning, design, and operations (anglais)
Hydropower dams provide society with substantial benefits, but, if poorly planned, designed or operated, they can also have serious consequences for the ecological health of rivers and the economic and...
Type de document: Document de travail (série numérotée) Numéro du rapport: 51004 Date du document: 1 novembre 2009 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Krchnak, Karin, Richter, Brian,Wlosinski,Gregory Thomas
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Directions in hydropower : scaling up for development (anglais)
The role of hydropower and multi-purpose water infrastructure is expanding, with important opportunities for poverty alleviation and sustainable development. The World Bank Group (WBG), encompassing the...
Type de document: Document de travail (série numérotée) Numéro du rapport: 49017 Date du document: 1 juin 2009 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Fields,Daryl, Odegard, Lars ,French,Laura K. S.,Revell,Geoff
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Using a private operator to establish a corporatized public water utility : the management contract for Johannesburg water (anglais)
This paper is a product of the energy, transport, and water department of the World Bank. It is part of a broader study aimed at assessing the overall performance of Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs)...
Type de document: Document de travail (série numérotée) Numéro du rapport: 48907 Date du document: 1 juin 2009 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Marin, Philippe , Mas, Jean-Pierre , Palmer, Ia
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Guiding principles for successful reforms of urban water supply and sanitation sectors (anglais)
The primary objective of this report is to provide practical guidance to World Bank teams advising on the design and implementation of reforms of urban water supply and sanitation (WSS) sectors. This report...
Type de document: Document de travail (série numérotée) Numéro du rapport: 47306 Date du document: 1 janvier 2009 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Locussol,Alain R.,Fall,Matar,Dickson,Eric
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Deterring corruption and improving governance in the urban water supply and sanitation sector : a sourcebook (anglais)
This sourcebook is part of a broader program of work on governance and corruption in the water supply and sanitation sector. The Sourcebook is meant as a resource to assist water and sanitation sector...
Type de document: Document de travail (série numérotée) Numéro du rapport: 46829 Date du document: 1 décembre 2008 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Halpern,Jonathan D.,Kenny,Charles J.,Dickson,Eric,Ehrhardt,David,Oliver, Chloe
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Key topics in public water utility reform (anglais)
Urban water supply services have traditionally been provided by state-owned water utilities. In the past decades, many governments have tried to turn state-owned water utilities into effective and viable...
Type de document: Document de travail Numéro du rapport: 44173 Date du document: 1 août 2008 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Van Ginneken,Meike, Kingdom, Bill,Hopkins,Omar Snowden,Debomy,Sylvie Claudine
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Poverty analysis in agricultural water operations - Phase I : review of World Bank financed projects (anglais)
Agricultural water has, in the past, been seen as a prime mechanism for fostering economic growth and reducing rural poverty, and agricultural water investments demonstrated particular success during the...
Type de document: Document de travail (série numérotée) Numéro du rapport: 44226 Date du document: 16 mai 2008 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Darghouth,M. Salah,Gittinger,J. Price,Roux,Julienne A. M.,Srivastava, Animesh,Ward,Christopher S.
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Ways to improve water services by making utilities more accountable to their users : a review (anglais)
This review aims to help those who work in and with water utilities, as well as organized users, regulators, and policymakers to improve the quality of water services by making service providers more accountable...
Type de document: Document de travail (série numérotée) Numéro du rapport: 44225 Date du document: 1 mai 2008 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Muller,Mike, Simpson, Robin,Van Ginneken,Meike
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Principles of town water supply and sanitation - Part 1 : water supply (anglais)
This report is a first attempt to set out a strategy for town water supply and sanitation. The primary objective is to identify, and find solutions for, the neglected towns those that fall between rural...
Type de document: Document de travail (série numérotée) Numéro du rapport: 44223 Date du document: 1 décembre 2007 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Pilgrim, Nick,Roche, Bob,Kalbermatten,John M.,Revels, Cathy,Kariuki,Rosemary Mukami
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Principles of town water supply and sanitation - Part 2 : sanitation (anglais)
This first volume report is an output of the first phase of the Bank Netherlands Water Partnership (BNWP) Funded Project No. 043 investigating the challenges of providing water and sanitation services...
Type de document: Document de travail (série numérotée) Numéro du rapport: 44224 Date du document: 1 décembre 2007 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Tayler,Kevin