Analysis of clean waer supply in developing countries in the context of SDG framework

• Název práce v češtině: Analýza zásobování čistou vodou v rozvojových zemích v kontextu cílů udržitelného rozvoje
• Název v anglickém jazyce: Analysis of clean waer supply in developing countries in the context of SDG framework
• Klíčová slova: udržitelný rozvoj, privatizace, zásobování vodou, nedostatek, řízení vodních zdrojů
• Klíčová slova anglicky: sustainable development, privatisation, water supply, scarcity, water resource management
• Akademický rok vypsání: 2017/2018
• Typ práce: bakalářská práce
• Jazyk práce: angličtina
• Ústav: Institut ekonomických studií (23-IES)
• Vedoucí / školitel: doc. Ing. Tomáš Cahlík, CSc.
• Řešitel: skrytý - zadáno vedoucím/školitelem
• Datum přihlášení: 10.05.2018
• Datum zadání: 10.05.2018
• Datum a čas obhajoby: 08.09.2020 09:00
• Místo konání obhajoby: Opletalova - Opletalova 26, O314, Opletalova - místn. č. 314
• Datum odevzdání elektronické podoby: 29.07.2020
• Datum proběhlé obhajoby: 08.09.2020
• Oponenti: Mgr. Tereza Palanská

Seznam odborné literatury

1. WHO, Progress on Sanitation and Drinking Water: 2015 Update and MDG Assessment
2. Carl Folke et al., Resilience and Sustainable Development: Building Adaptive Capacity in a World of Transformations [pdf.], Ambio Vol. 31 No. 5, 2002
3. Maggie A. Montgomery et al., Increasing Functional Sustainability of Water and Sanitation Supplies in Rural Sub-Saharan Africa [pdf.], Environmental Engineering Science, Vol. 26 No. 5, 2009
4. Roberto Lanton, Mike Muller, Integrated Water Resources Management in Practice: Better Water Management for Development, Routledge 2012
5. Jacob E. Mangum, Sustainability of Community-Managed Rural Water Supply Systems in Amazonas, Peru: Assessing Monitoring Tools and External Support Provision [pdf.], University of South Florida, 2017
6. Alexander Bakalian and Wendy Wakeman, Post-Construction Support and Sustainability in Community-Managed Rural Water Supply: Case Studies in Peru, Bolivia, and Ghana [pdf.], Water Sector Board Discussion Paper Series, No. 14, 2009
7. Urooj Q. Amjad et al., Rethinking Sustainability, Scaling Up, and Enabling Environment: A Framework for Their Implementation in Drinking Water Supply [pdf.], Water 2015, Vol. 7
8. Jennifer Franco et al., The Global Politics of Water Grabbing [pdf.], Third World Quarterly, Vol.34, No. 9 (2013), pp.1651-1675
9. Kate Bayliss, The Financialization of Water [pdf.], Review of Radical Political Economics 2014, Vol. 46(3) 292–307
10. Michael Goldman, How ‘‘Water for All!’’ policy became hegemonic: The power of the World Bank and its transnational policy networks [pdf.], Geoforum Vol. 38 (2007) pp. 786–800
11. UNICEF and World Health Organization 2015, Progress on Sanitation and Drinking Water – 2015 update and MDG assessment [pdf.], ISBN 9 789241 509145

Předběžná náplň práce

Introduction:
- Description of the nature of water as an increasingly more valuable commodity
- Water as a global, but scarce good
- Water as an issue on the international agenda

Main Body:
- Water as a need becoming a millennium development goal (Global water access analysis with a particular focus on developing countries)
- Introductory examination of private and public sector endeavours intended towards global water management policies in the framework of SDG (such as water security and sanitation programs) focused on developing countries
- Sustainability factors, assessing and planning, challenges
- Governmental and corporate obligations toward the human right to water, advantages and disadvantages of each and their respective effort or business operations to tackle the problem with shortage of water
- major and possible economic, political or geographical hindrances

- Case studies of several developing countries concerning private and public water management and their consequent outcomes in terms of efficiency, equity and sustainability impacts
- Literature review of related articles which estimate the impact of privatization on water access in developing countries

- Empirical Methodology
- Data and description
- Model Testing
- Results

Conclusion:
- Concise summary of the results obtained from the analysis of private and public proprietary sectors comprising economic effectivity, environmental impact and societal implications of water management
- Reference to introductory part of the thesis, that is confirmation/refutation of proposed researched questions, co and derivation of prospective development of global management endeavours of water as an increasingly scarcer commodity

Předběžná náplň práce v anglickém jazyce

Research question and motivation

1. Should water as a natural resource be treated as an economic good subject to supply and demand mechanism?
2. Would it be socioeconomically beneficial if water resources were transferred to private-sector ownership?
3. Would privatisation thereof lead to a much more equitable allocation and higher effectualness in terms of a water quality-standards guarantee and sustainable development goals?
Analysing bilateral sector of water resource-proprietorship, both from the standpoint of private corporations as well as public or communal one, might be significantly beneficial with regard to distributive and consumptional responsibilities and decision-making procedure. Privatisation of water has been a controversial concept for many years, since on the one hand, proponents of the idea point to water’s potential wastage when freely
available, whereas on the other hand, opponents argue that privatisation is likely to cause a dramatic increase of rates and environmental pollution resulting from over-extraction due to firms’ centredness on profit-maximisation.

Contribution:

It might be beneficial to scrutinise both contrasting standpoints of such a controversial topic that would systematically elucidate the complexity of the issue and eventually endeavour to produce a conclusive outcome based on the socioeconomic implications of each derived from their comprehensive comparison. That is to say, does water privatisation represent an important step towards socially-targeted goal of more equitable and effective water reallocation, or is it rather a strategic intention of corporations to gain influence over another vital natural resource?
The contribution of this thesis, among other things, should be to direct reader’s attention to environmental impacts and negative externalities, which each of these two sectors (especially private) brought about, and thus proffer some sort of reasonable solution for long-run maintenance of SD goals.

Methodology:

- Data analysis of most influential corporations (e.g. Nestlé) and supranational organisations (e.g. the World Bank Group) involved in water privatisation efforts worldwide
- These include:
- graphs displaying safely-managed drinking water services, water scarcity etc.
- coverage of improved water and sanitation facilities in rural and urban areas in developing countries worldwide
- figures demonstrating adverse environmental consequences, such as pollution or water exploitation, triggered by private companies in their effort to maximise profit that significantly aggravated the socioeconomic situation of developing countries
- Data analysis will lie in a statistical comparison of the above-mentioned data, which will include contrasting the private with public undertaking in the matter of water management
- Particular attention will be focused on evaluating the overall contributions, socioeconomic cost and externalities which each sector’s involvement in water management brought about

Outline

Introduction:

Description of the nature of water as an increasingly more valuable commodity - Water as a global, but scarce good
- Water as an issue on the international agenda
Introductory examination of private and public sector endeavours intended towards global water management policies in the framework of SDG (such as water security and sanitation programs) focused on developing countries
- Water as a need becoming a millennium development goal
- Motivation of businesses and supranational organisations for privatisation of water
management
Main Body:
- Global water access analysis with a particular focus on developing countries
- poverty and issues with water accessibility
- countries that suffer the most from a shortage of clean water supply - attempts to improve the situation
- Sustainability factors, assessing and planning, challenges
- how are these different in developing countries in comparison to developed ones?
- Governmental and corporate obligations toward the human right to water, advantages and disadvantages of each
- their respective effort to tackle the problem with shortage of water
- major and possible economic, political or geographical hindrances
- Case studies of several developing countries concerning private and public water management and their consequent outcomes in terms of efficiency, equity and sustainability impacts 

Conclusion:
- Concise summary of the results obtained from the analysis of private and public proprietary sectors comprising economic effectivity, environmental impact and societal implications of water management
- Reference to introductory part of the thesis, that is confirmation/refutation of proposed researched questions and derivation of prospective development of global management endeavours of water as an increasingly scarcer commodity