Water Infrastructure and Socio-Economic Development Issues

摘要

This paper aims to revive debate and to improve the concern and understanding of the importance of water infrastructure development in enabling sustainable socio-economic growth and poverty alleviation - although this is just one of many aspects that must be weighed and understood in managing water resources. In this purpose, we present and support the paradigm of the "S curve" water security scenarios. Then we consider the limits and challenges in assessing the socio-economic development impact of improved access to water infrastructure, from a modeling view. Defying some of these obstacles and acknowledging the special situation of Romania, we develop some simple regression and correlation analysis of these issues, to conceptually assist the supposed large investment effort.