{"title":"Pissapocalypse: New Zealand’s dairy little secret","authors":"C. Fischer, Veronica Relano Ecija","doi":"10.53014/jdpi4081","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.53014/jdpi4081","url":null,"abstract":"New Zealand, home to 0.06% of the world’s population, contributed nearly 22% to the global dairy market in 2019. New Zealanders are twice as likely to fall ill from campylobacter as Britons, and three times more than Australians or Canadians. Half of New Zealand’s lakes are irreversibly damaged and two thirds of its rivers are too polluted to swim in.","PeriodicalId":393895,"journal":{"name":"Water Science Policy","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121870108","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Water, gender and the international community - what are the next steps?","authors":"Eliana Harrigan","doi":"10.53014/iglf6030","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.53014/iglf6030","url":null,"abstract":"UNESCO and Water Science Policy are suggesting the next steps for creating a more gender-inclusive water sector. It is time to move from an outdated water domain towards a sector which thrives on social inclusivity and environmental sustainability.","PeriodicalId":393895,"journal":{"name":"Water Science Policy","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115352376","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"What have we learned from the false heroes of chemistry?","authors":"C. Fischer, Veronica Relano Ecija","doi":"10.53014/okul3750","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.53014/okul3750","url":null,"abstract":"3M was aware as early as 1979 that PFOS & PFOA would bio-accumulate around their production site and, as internal documents show, knew about the toxicity of PFOS as well as PFOA by the mid 80s. The company gradually stopped production as soon as environmental agencies caught on to it, priding itself for its environmentally friendly way of doing business. The fact that concentrations of other, different, but similar compounds keep increasing is extremely concerning. If history is not to repeat itself, regulators and citizens must learn from the past.","PeriodicalId":393895,"journal":{"name":"Water Science Policy","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128896440","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Cost-Benefit Analysis of Urban Stream Restoration","authors":"Lorenzo Cinalli","doi":"10.53014/gnpf5769","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.53014/gnpf5769","url":null,"abstract":"The District of Columbia Department of Energy and Environment (DC DOEE) and National Park Service (NPS) have worked in tandem on multiple stream restorations throughout the Washington DC area. Restored stream ecosystems provide a variety of direct and indirect environmental benefits, such as improved stormwater management, water quality, and recreational value.","PeriodicalId":393895,"journal":{"name":"Water Science Policy","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130001952","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The mother of corruption","authors":"C. Fischer","doi":"10.53014/zbhv5554","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.53014/zbhv5554","url":null,"abstract":"A centralised wastewater treatment plant - one of the region’s largest - was to be built in Khlong Dan, Thailand, to process 525,000 m3 of wastewater daily. Staggeringly corrupt deals between politicians, public officials and businesspersons inflated land prices. Colluders were convicted following complaints by locals to the Asian Development Bank, a new prime minister and the pollution control department.","PeriodicalId":393895,"journal":{"name":"Water Science Policy","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132639621","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Corruption and integrity failures: Evidence from Bangkok's wastewater sector","authors":"C. Fischer","doi":"10.53014/cieq2619","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.53014/cieq2619","url":null,"abstract":"Integrity failures play a key role in the growing problems of Bangkok’s wastewater and the inability of the Thai government to solve them. Three larger systemic barriers to change are very relevant to Bangkok: (i) corruption in public financial management, (ii) corruption at the interface between institutions and individuals and (iii) wider integrity failures. The sector’s path is challenging and the frequently-changing political leadership, the fragmented governance and new laws often create situations conducive to integrity failures.","PeriodicalId":393895,"journal":{"name":"Water Science Policy","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133208646","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Pissing it away","authors":"Michael W. Joy","doi":"10.53014/uvly1549","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.53014/uvly1549","url":null,"abstract":"If you want to know why swimming in rivers of New Zealand is a bad idea, or why our groundwater is less safe for drinking than it was three decades ago, blame that cow and her many, many friends.","PeriodicalId":393895,"journal":{"name":"Water Science Policy","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127562506","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Windows opportunity for water and plastic management? The case for taxing bottled water","authors":"C. Fischer, Godfred Amankwaa","doi":"10.53014/gczy1218","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.53014/gczy1218","url":null,"abstract":"Where public supply has failed and made unsatisfactory progress in supplying drinking water, the private sector has readily stepped in to supply citizens with drinking water – most often to make big money. Much of the water bottling industry (i) provides a highly inelastic good, (ii) is immensely profitable and (iii) has significant negative externalities on public utilities, the natural environment and the quality of life in urban settings. The wide-spread introduction of a tax on the commercial water extraction and/or bottled or sachet water is ripe. The new mantra must not be “3Rs”, but “4Rs” – reduce, reuse, remunerate, recycle","PeriodicalId":393895,"journal":{"name":"Water Science Policy","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124124391","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Corruption and integrity in the urban water and sanitation sector: A case study of Mexico City","authors":"Muhil Nesi","doi":"10.53014/sqmj1802","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.53014/sqmj1802","url":null,"abstract":"Despite considerable public funding, Mexico City faces inadequate and inequitably distributed water infrastructure. Corruption in public fund management and at the interface between institutions and individuals is fed by opaque governing systems. Local actors agree that sustainable water management must begin with systemic changes to enable transparent and participative governance.","PeriodicalId":393895,"journal":{"name":"Water Science Policy","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121706699","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}