This collection of essays by academics and practitioners from around the world underscores issues and concerns of sustainable urban development and best practices in terms of theory as well as praxes. Contributors have made an attempt to critically reconcile the hypothetical with the applied in order to arrive at innovative solutions for urban good governance in the context of water supply reforms including water management, sanitation, migration of rural population to cities, and women’s empowerment in a common project. The papers more often than not transcend regional specifics to address the common agenda of urban development debates as informed by assorted modernization perspectives in the 21st century. This Volume brings together social scientists, development consultants and non-profit professionals so that the multipositional theories and multicultural praxes might be reflected in their papers based on empirical research, project studies and field-level insights. It is expected that it will provoke fresh debates and new ideas that will facilitate theory-building as well as formulation of paradigms for good practices and sustainable urban applications. The book will be found highly useful by town planners, municipal administrators, NGOs working in the field of urban development, particularly water supply and sanitation, and common readers interested in urban problems and policies. It will move equally valuable for policymakers as well as students, researchers and teachers of urban economics, urban sociology, urban geography and public administration.

Table of Contents:
Preface; Introduction; 1. The Political Economy of Water Supply Reforms: Lessons from an Urban Water Utility–Venkatesh Dutta; 2. Unaccounted for Water and its Management — An Integrated Approach to Achieve Low Cost Water Supply–M.A.I. Chowdhury; 3. Exploring the Process of Women’s Empowerment in a Water and Sanitation Project–Alka Awasthi; 4. Spatial Pattern of Migration Flow in Pune City–Vijaya P. Khairkar; 5. Impact of Aeration Units in Improving Water Quality–Neelam Verma 6. Asian Urbanization as a Regional Phenomenon: An Agenda for Bangladesh Perspectives — Past, Present and Future Strategy–Md. Shariful Alam Chowdhury; 7. India: Urban Water and Sanitation Services: Guidelines for Sector Reform and Successful Public-Private Partnerships; Contributors