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The book empirically and theoretically argues that access to services such as water is the subject of political negotiations, mediated through identity, urban infrastructure, and the differentiation of urban spaces. The involvement of the public water delivery system has created a highly fragmented water-supply system and the troubled records of the private water vendors indicate to the fact that both public and private water delivery systems encounter significant 'governance failures' in attempting to extend urban water supply to the low income households especially in the slum areas. For the urban poor, the scarcity of potable water is a daily hardship which is accentuated in a heterogeneous society where crisis leads to marginalization, deprivations and conflicts. To achieve safe and adequate water for all, critical examination, reform or even replacement of the existing models is necessary to correctly respond to the failure of both conventional government and private sector models to satisfactorily 'provide water for all'.

David Seddon was formerly Professor of Sociology & Politics in the School of Development Studies at the University of East Anglia; he is now Director of Critical Faculty, an international research & consultancy group. He has written widely on popular struggles and on rural unrest, and having lived and worked in Nepal for many decades, he has is author and co-author of a number of books on Nepal, including Nepal in Crisis, Peasants and Workers in Nepal, The Struggle for Basic Needs in Nepal, The Peoples War in Nepal: left perspectives and In Hope and in Fear: living through the People's War in Nepal. He has also lived and worked in Morocco and is the author of Moroccan Peasants. He is currently working with two colleagues on a book in honour of Eric Wolf, author of Peasant Wars of the Twentieth Century.

The main orientation of this book is intellectual envisioning of pathways future Nepal as peaceful and prosperous nation in 15-18 years from now, which was severely after from the devastating bloody war for a decade (1996-2006) and messy prolonged transition for another decade (2006-2015). The book offers selected thematic areas of development intervention as effective means of achieving prosperous and peaceful Nepal. Even after a decade of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement, myriad of political and socio-economic problems and uncertainties compounded from poverty, social inequities, and insecurities exist in the country. What can be done to address such situation and how does one begin? One begins with discussing ideas, having a vision, and looking to the future. That is exactly what we have attempted to do in this volume. At this juncture in Nepal's history, when the policy makers of this country are discussing and debating how to build a 'New Nepal', we thought it would be very timely to bring into public debate some of the visions of the people who are outside the political sphere but are actively contributing from their respective positions to build a prosperous Nepal. While we collectively work towards building this fragile country into a strong and secure nation, we hope that the articles in this book will at least make the readers dream about some possibilities and aspire towards translating these dreams into realities. The themes covered in this volume are very important f or any nation's development and country's prosperous future.

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Nepal is passing through a historic transition from a unitary kingdom to a plural, democratic, multi\-religious, multi\-lingual, multi\-ethnic, multi\- cultural, republican, federal, secular, sovereign and modern nation\- state, embracing the aspirations of the Nepali people. During this historic transformation process, there are many political, social, economic, security and cultural issues that need to be restructured in line with the changed political, security and social context.