Water for the Urban Poor in the Southern Workshop

Large urban agglomerations in Latin America are growing rapidly without offering potable water service to poor inhabitants, especially in peri-urban districts. Recently, water cooperatives and other small scale providers have generated excitement in the international development community as an institutional mechanism for water delivery that has potential to serve low-income areas where water connections from centralized public and private utilities are not available. The goal of this interdisciplinary workshop is to bring together university researchers, officials from the public sector and international funding agencies to review and to investigate aspects of a crucial public policy dilemma: how to improve the access to safe water of the urban poor in the southern most parts of South America, the zone commonly t referred to as the “southern cone.”

• Srihari Yamanoor wrote (5 months ago):

  Rebecca, where is this workshop going to be held? I am very interested. This is related to what we are trying to do with Oasis.

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