Pricing Urban Water Evaluation of Economics in the Water Sector of H
High population growth, informal settlements, and organizational and financial mismanagement represent major challenges for the water supply in many cities in developing countries. This book contributes to solving those problems by identifying systematic
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Laura Echternacht
Pricing Urban Water Evaluation of Economics in the Water Sector of Hyderabad and Varanasi (India)
SpringerBriefs in Water Science and Technology
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Laura Echternacht
Pricing Urban Water Evaluation of Economics in the Water Sector of Hyderabad and Varanasi (India)
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Laura Echternacht Department of Engineering Geology and Hydrogeology RWTH Aachen University Aachen Germany
ISSN 2194-7244 ISSN 2194-7252 (electronic) ISBN 978-3-319-04189-6 ISBN 978-3-319-04190-2 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-04190-2 Springer Cham Heidelberg New York Dordrecht London Library of Congress Control Number: 2014930182 © The Author(s) 2014 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. Exempted from this legal reservation are brief excerpts in connection with reviews or scholarly analysis or material supplied specifically for the purpose of being entered and executed on a computer system, for exclusive use by the purchaser of the work. Duplication of this publication or parts thereof is permitted only under the provisions of the Copyright Law of the Publisher’s location, in its current version, and permission for use must always be obtained from Springer. Permissions for use may be obtained through RightsLink at the Copyright Clearance Center. Violations are liable to prosecution under the respective Copyright Law. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. While the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of publication, neither the authors nor the editors nor the publisher can accept any legal responsibility for any errors or omissions that may be made. The publisher makes no warranty, express or implied, with respect to the material contained herein. Printed on acid-free paper Springer is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com)
Acknowledgments
I conducted this research as part of my master’s thesis at the Department of Engineering Geology and Hydrogeology at RWTH Aachen University (Germany) and I would like to thank my advisors Univ.-Prof. Dr.rer.nat. Dr.h.c. Rafig Azzam and Dr.rer.nat. Klaus Baier for their support. Further thanks are directed to the DAAD, which made the research trip to Hyderabad and Varanasi possible with its scholarship in the initiative “A new passage to India”.
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Contents
1 Introduction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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