Water Equity and Security in Detroit's Water and Sewer District

Ensuring access to drinking water and wastewater service is a nationwide policy challenge. Across the United States access is increasingly insecure for many people and places. In this report we comply with scholarship and legal precedent that defines access to include access to residential in-home service, quality service that serves environmental and personal health,and affordable service.Water security is a term in this report used to describe the presence of structural, systemic, and institutional arrangements that ensure everyone has consistent access to drinking water and wastewater services. Water insecurity looks different in the humid east than in the arid west, different in the Midwest from the South, different between urban, suburban, or rural.However different water insecurity problems look at the local level, they are the result of similar institutional, systemic, and structural problems. This is a study of the what persistent water insecurity looks like in the service area of Detroit's drinking and wastewater system (DWSD) and specific places within that system, notably Detroit

Will children be asked to work more and learn less? : the impact of agrarian incomes on education in Tanzania

Thesis (M.P.P.)--Georgetown University, 2010.; Includes bibliographical references.; Text (Electronic thesis) in PDF format. Environmental conditions in Africa are favorable for a multitude of agricultural crops, making economic growth through the agriculture sector an attractive choice for African leaders. Policy makers are focusing efforts on agriculture in hopes of increasing household incomes and providing the means for other development goals, including education. Still, farming requires more labor hours than other means of income generation. If agriculture becomes more lucrative will families set their children to work instead of send them to school? If these poverty alleviation policies are providing incentives for families to keep children home from school, the short term benefits of increased income will be offset by the long term consequences of an uneducated generation.; Research exists showing the positive impact of education on human development and economic prosperity. Research also illustrates the negative impact of child labor on educational attainment. However, linking the effects of agrarian income on children's labor hours and education has yet to be established. This analysis attempts to fill this gap.; Using a robust probit regression analysis this work analyzes the effects of labor-intense agrarian livelihood on child labor hours and school attendance in Tanzania. The study finds that income has an impact on school attendance, and an increase in household responsibilities decreases the probability that a child will attend school. The results of this study imply that economic policies focused on improving the productivity of agriculture must be coupled with education policies to offset the opportunity cost families face sending children to school

Water Equity and Security in Detroit's Water and Sewer District

In this report we comply with scholarship and legal precedent that defines access to include access to residential in-home service, quality service that serves environmental and personal health, and affordable service. Water security is a term in this report used to describe the presence of structural, systemic, and institutional arrangements that ensure everyone has consistent access to drinking water and wastewater services. Water insecurity looks different in the humid east than in the arid west, different in the Midwest from the South, different between urban, suburban, or rural. However different water insecurity problems look at the local level, they are the result of similar institutional, systemic, and structural problems. This is a study of the what persistent water insecurity looks like in the service area of Detroit’s drinking and wastewater system (DWSD) and specific places within that system, notably Detroit

Structuring Development for Greater Community Benefit: An Analysis of an Opportunity Model for Developing the Berkeley Global Campus at Richmond Bay

This report is part of a larger body of research exploring ways to structure the development process for the Berkeley Global Campus at Richmond Bay so that it is aligned with community well-being and leveraged to reinvest substantial resources into the community. This report provides the following: • A review of Richmond’s current community needs and potential opportunities through the development of the Berkeley Global Campus. • An analysis of a community development entity (CDE) as an Opportunity Model for the development of the Berkeley Global Campus, supplemental to a community benefits agreement and contrasted to a conventional public-private partnership. • A clear pathway of the steps necessary to begin implementation of applying the CDE model for the campus development