Water Supply and Sanitation Policy in Developing Countries Part 2 is our second MOOC in a two-part sequence, and looks at ‘Developing Effective Interventions’. Here we invite you to develop analytical skills and deep understanding about a complex, controversial policy problem – one with no simple, easy answers. About half a billion people on our planet still lack access to improved water supplies and about two billion do not have improved sanitation services, leading to an unknown but very large number of avoidable deaths each year from water-related diseases. Millions of dollars are spent on avoidable health care expenditures, and people – mostly women – spend many billions of hours carrying water from sources outside the home. Reducing these costs is a major global challenge for us all in the 21st century. Join us to explore the challenging and complex political, economic, social, and technical dimensions of the policy interventions that donors, national governments and water utilities use to address this challenge. This second MOOC consists of the following seven sessions:
• Session 1: Introduction and how our ‘ancient instincts’ affect water policy interventions.
• Session 2: Planning better policy interventions: Roles, features and examples of planning protocols.
• Session 3: Water pricing, tariff design and subsidies.
• Session 4: Providing information to households and communities to improve water and sanitation conditions.
• Session 5: Changing the institutions that deliver water and sanitation services: Privatization in developing countries.
• Session 6: Changing institutions: Lessons from the UK water privatization story.
• Session 7: Changing institutions: Improving regulation of the water and sanitation sector.
Your instructors for this course have worked in and studied this sector for many years. Professor Dale Whittington has worked on water and sanitation policy and planning issues for over 40 years in more than two dozen low and middle-income countries. Dr Duncan Thomas has worked in the UK and European water sectors for 15 years, focusing on overcoming barriers to technological, organizational, regulatory and policy innovations.
Please watch this introductory video outlining the course: https://youtu.be/KkBmo3EKkkI
What's included
6 videos1 reading3 discussion prompts
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6 videos•Total 67 minutes
Welcome to the course - Introduction•5 minutes
Video 1-0 Introducing the role of ancient instincts•7 minutes
Video 1-1 Ancient instincts 1: State and public rejection of water policy proposals•12 minutes
Video 1-2 Ancient instincts 2: Examples•11 minutes
Video 1-3 Ancient instincts 3: Water-related•18 minutes
Video 1-4 Ancient instincts 4: Water policy-related•13 minutes
1 reading•Total 10 minutes
Introduction and how our ‘ancient instincts’ affect water policy interventions•10 minutes
Video 7-0 Regulation of the water utilities in LDCs•8 minutes
Video 7-1 UK water regulation 1: The original vision•25 minutes
Video 7-2 UK water regulation 2: Evolution in practice, 1989 to 2016•31 minutes
Video 7-3 UK water regulation 3: Innovation and future challenges•18 minutes
Video 7-4 Conservation with Stephen Littlechild on inventing the UK regulatory model•98 minutes
Video 7-5 Conservation with Regina Finn on reforming UK water regulation•49 minutes
Video 7-6 The case of Phnom Penh, Cambodia•11 minutes
Video 7-7 Part 2 MOOC Overall Wrap-up•3 minutes
Part 1: Definitions and terminology: ‘Virtual water’, publishing it and its critiques; blue, green, big and small water; problem-sheds and watersheds; valuing labour, land and water•27 minutes
Part 2: Global ‘virtual water’ solutions for agricultural ‘big water’ and local solutions for urban ‘small water’•19 minutes
Part 3: Politics, risks and communities around water and food security: Water, environmental and financial accountants; food producers, markets and consumers•9 minutes
Part 4: Global trends in water and food: Food security, population, virtual water trade, international relations and peace•8 minutes
Part 5: New technologies and approaches for global challenges around water scarcity: Urban water recycling and desalination in Israel•7 minutes
Part 6: Ancient instincts, entitlement to water, privatisation, and remaining unaware of ‘big water’ in food•6 minutes
Part 7: ‘Virtual water’ as an inter-disciplinary innovation for water policy and water politics•8 minutes
Part 8: Water metrics for ‘virtual water’: Origins, uptake and impact of water footprinting•9 minutes
Part 9: Professor Allan’s university working conditions when ‘virtual water’ was invented and adopted•6 minutes
Part 10: Professor Allan’s advice for students to become creative, courageous, well-read and effective water policy researchers•13 minutes
3 readings•Total 30 minutes
Session 7: Changing institutions: Improving regulation of the water and sanitation sector•10 minutes
Video interview with Professor Tony Allan•10 minutes
Addendum to video narrative•10 minutes
1 peer review•Total 120 minutes
A proposal of a two-part information strategy to reform water tariffs in Egypt•120 minutes
6 discussion prompts•Total 60 minutes
What can be learned from the UK water regulation experience to use in other countries around the world?•10 minutes
What factors contributed to the success of the Phnom Penh Water Supply Authority’s reforms?•10 minutes
The Phnom Penh Water Supply Authority•10 minutes
The physical conditions in Phnom Penh•10 minutes
Political economy factors in Phnom Penh•10 minutes
Why do you think the Phnom Penh Water Supply Authority was partially privatized?•10 minutes
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As a public health professional with keen interest in WASH, I found this course highly educative on the effective strategies for water and sanitation interventions in developing countries.
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