Guidelines for Urban Water Strategic Planning: Inspiration from theories and best practices

Abstract

The TRUST project aims to create co-produced knowledge that urban water utilities can use for planning transitions. Such transitions can be planned in various ways based on different premises about what constitutes desirable or necessary change, the degree to which such change can be planned, and what a proper planning process entails. This Report aimed at reviewing the composition and content of existing strategic plans that have been developed by leading water utilities and examining the processes by which these plans were designed. This review keeps the diversity of water utilities in view by sampling plans from water scarce areas, urban – peri-urban areas, and green areas.