Evolving International Collaborative Arrangements for Water Supply and Sanitation
Evolving International Collaborative Arrangements for Water Supply and Sanitation
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不断发展的供水和卫生国际合作安排
DOI：
10.1080/02508069108686108
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发表时间：
1991
影响因子：
2.6
通讯作者：
D. Howarth
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文献类型：
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作者：
B. Grover;D. Howarth
据估计，每年为发展中国家的供水和卫生系统投资100亿美元。这些全球投资的系统性低效率应引起部门规划者的关注。例如，从这类部门投资效率低下造成的“损失”中收回3%，每年可节省3亿美元，或足以向大约600万人提供基本供水和卫生服务（假设低成本技术人均费用为50美元）。因此，关于如何有效地提供更多更好的服务，有大量的理论和实践信息。不幸的是，当前的投资决策并不总是反映当前的知识。然而，有令人鼓舞的迹象表明，通过分享知识和想法，部门从业人员之间加强了协作，大大提高了效率。
An estimated US $ l0 billion is invested annually for water supply and sanitation systems in developing countries. Systemic inefficiencies in these global investments should merit the concern of sector planners. Recovering three per cent of the “losses” caused by inefficiencies in such sector investments, for example, could liberate $300 million per year, or enough to provide basic water supply and sanitation services to some six million people (assuming low cost technologies costing $50 per capita).Water Supply and Sanitation Decade. Consequently there is a wealth of theoretical and practical information about how to provide more and better services efficiently. Unfortunately, current investment decisions do not always reflect current knowledge. There are, however, encouraging signs that increased collaboration among sector practitioners has resulted in significant gains in efficiency through the sharing of knowledge and ideas.