This issue of Environment and Urbanization includes three papers on community provision: the community-designed, built and managed toilet blocks in Indian cities; the WaterAid water and sanitation programme in Dhaka and Chittagong; and community tanks in Orangi, Karachi. It also has a review of experience to date with water privatization, and papers discussing women's and children's priorities for water and sanitation. There are case studies of water stress and their causes in Guadalajara and Beijing, and discussions and case studies of drainage and of how wastewater can be used for agriculture. A special supplement on the Millennium Development Goals has papers discussing the MDGs and urban poverty reduction, a Programme for Land Tenure Legalization on Public Land in São Paulo and financial frameworks to reduce 'slums' and support home improvements for low-income households.

This issue of Environment and Urbanization includes three papers on community provision: the community-designed, built and managed toilet blocks in Indian cities; the WaterAid water and sanitation programme in Dhaka and Chittagong; and community tanks in Orangi, Karachi. It also has a review of experience to date with water privatization, and papers discussing women's and children's priorities for water and sanitation. There are case studies of water stress and their causes in Guadalajara and Beijing, and discussions and case studies of drainage and of how wastewater can be used for agriculture. A special supplement on the Millennium Development Goals has papers discussing the MDGs and urban poverty reduction, a Programme for Land Tenure Legalization on Public Land in São Paulo and financial frameworks to reduce 'slums' and support home improvements for low-income households. Summaries of Environment and Urbanization Five-page pdf summaries of each issue of Environment and Urbanization are available free by email. Send your request to eandu@iied.org. The current issue is Water and Sanitation, and previous issues include: Rural-Urban Transformations, Building Better Cities with and for Children and Youth, Globalization and Cities, and Civil Society in Action: Transforming Opportunities for the Urban Poor. Read more and/or subscribe: www.iied.org/human/eandu/eandu_details.html To order this back issue: www.earthprint.com/go.htm?to=9279IIED