Meeting Development Goals in Small Urban Centres: Water and Sanitation in the Worlds Cities 2006

Half of the world's people live in urban areas, and roughly a third of these live in desperate poverty without access to basic amenities. Taking on the themes of UN-HABITAT's Water and Sanitation in the World's Cities (2003), this new volume focuses on the deficiencies in the provision of water and sanitation where most of the populations of the developing world live: in towns and small cities.

Drawing on extensive unpublished research and 15 commissioned papers from experts involved in des...