With continued applied research effective policies supportive institutional capacities private sector involvement and successful business development and advocacy the prospects of transforming wastewater from an environmental burden into a safe economic asset are quite promising. Economic asset in an urbanizing world editors drechsel pay qadir manzoor wichelns dennis eds free preview first book dedicated to opportunities for cost recovery in the wastewater and faecal sludge treatment sector in developed and developing countries transforming urban wastewater into an economic asset opportunities and . Wastewater economic asset in an urbanizing world springer urbanization coupled with improved living standards population increase and economic development is generating ever greater volumes of wastewater. Request pdf wastewater economic asset in an urbanizing world the challenge of providing food water and nutritional security for households and communities in 2050 will be greater than the . Drechsel p qadir m and d wichelns eds 2015 wastewater an economic asset in an urbanizing world springer 282 pp