Water Quality Management in the Americas

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-XVII

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2. Water Quality Issues in Latin America

   • Luis E. García

   Pages 1-15

3. Economic Instruments and Nonpoint Source Water Pollution

   • Clifford S. Russell, Christopher D. Clark

   Pages 17-45

4. Role of Water Rights and Market Approaches to Water Quality Management

   • Sarah A. Cline, Mark W. Rosegrant, Claudia Ringler

   Pages 47-60

5. Effectiveness of Market Approaches to Water Quality Management

   • K. William Easter, Robert C. Johansson

   Pages 61-78

6. Integrated Water Quality Management in Brazil

   • Benedito Braga, Monica Porto, Luciano Meneses

   Pages 79-94

7. Institutional Aspects of Water Quality Management in Brazil

   • Raymundo Garrido

   Pages 95-106

8. Water Quality Management in Ceará, Brazil

   • José Nilson B. Campos, Francisco Assis de Souza-Filho

   Pages 107-117

9. Water Quality Management in Mexico

   • Felipe I. Arreguín-Cortés, Enrique Mejía-Maravilla

   Pages 119-136

10. Water Quality Management: Missing Concept for Developing Countries

    • J. Eugenio Barrios

    Pages 137-146

11. Public Policies for Urban Wastewater Treatment in Guanajuato, Mexico

    • Ricardo Sandoval-Minero, Raúl Almeida-Jara

    Pages 147-165

12. Water Quality Management: North American Development Bank Experience

    • Raul Rodriguez, Suzanne Gallagher O’Neal

    Pages 167-177

13. Water Quality Management in Central America: Case Study of Costa Rica

    • Maureen Ballestero, Virginia Reyes

    Pages 179-200

14. Legal and Institutional Frameworks for Water Quality Management in Argentina

    • Lilian del Castillo

    Pages 201-227

15. Water Quality Management in Chile: Use of Economic Instruments

    • Guillermo Donoso, Oscar Melo

    Pages 229-251

16. Water Pollution Charges: Colombian Experience

    • Javier Blanco, Zulma Guzmán

    Pages 253-283

17. Back Matter

    Pages 285-296

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Considerable attention has been given during the past few years to the water crisis that many regions of the world may face in the coming decades. While the mag- tude and the extent of the global water scarcity problems of the future should not be underestimated, a serious analysis of the current trends indicate that the main water crisis in the coming years is most likely to stem primarily from water quality deterioration and lack of investment funds, rather than from physical water scar- ties per se, as is widely expected at present. In spite of the seriousness of continuing water quality deterioration in most countries of the world, water quality management continues to be a somewhat - glected issue in the international water community. Even the magnitudes and - tents of the water quality problems are not reliably known in many developed countries and in nearly all developing ones. Accordingly, in order to assess the current situation in water quality management in the Americas, and to discuss the alternatives available to improve the existing and future water quality conditions in a cost-effective and timely manner, the Third World Centre for Water M- agement in Mexico, the National Water Agency in Brazil (Agência Nacional de Águas), and the Inter-American Development Bank organised a workshop on “Water Quality Management for the Americas,” in Fortaleza, Brazil, 12-13 April 2004.

• Institution
• Policy
• developing countries
• development
• pollution
• wastewater
• wastewater treatment
• water
• water pollution
• water treatment
• hydrogeology
• water quality and water pollution
• water quality and water pollution

• Third World Centre for Water Management, Estado de México, Mexico

  Asit K. Biswas, Cecilia Tortajada

• National Water Agency, Brasilia, DF, Brazil

  Benedito Braga

• Environment Division Sustainable Development Dept., Inter-American Development Bank, Washington, DC, USA

  Diego J. Rodriguez

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