THE ROLE OF WATER IN DEVELOPMENT

Part 1 -- Basic planning approach 1. Space, language, and point of view of the development planner 2. Outline of a planning methodology for water-resources development in developing countries 3. Planning behavior and pathology 4. The analytical vs. the ideological approach 5. The gap 6. The age of metaplanning: a synthesis. Part 2 -- Planning methodology and the planning process 7. Development planning 8. The development-underdevelopment scale: a structural interpretation 9. The planning process 10. Development heuristics 11. The role of information 12. Program evaluation 13. The decision space 14. The planning space of community water supplies 15. A pragmatic approach to national community water-supply programs for developing countries 16. Organization aspects of water-resources development 17. Rate structure viewed as a development tool 18.Logistic programming 19. The inventorying process 20. Sectorial planning in traditional agriculture 21. The two approaches to development poles 22 Typical milestones of the development of the agricultural sector 23. Transformation at the village level 24. Transformation of the development authority. Part 3 -- water-resources management 25. The subspace of resources geometry and its relation to the planning space 26. resources geometry: a conceptual model 27. Basic patterns of water-resources management policies 28. qualitative aspects of water-resources management 29. Typical applications of the three basic management policies Part 4 -- Case histories and special problems comprehensive water-resources development case history: Israel 31. Some composite case histories of community water-supply development 32. Problems of arid countries 33. A desalting plant as a part of a water-supply system 34. Conclusions and outlook.

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