Episode 39: Dale Whittington https://sph.unc.edu/adv_profile/dale-whittington-phd/) is a Professor in the Departments of Environmental Sciences & Engineering and City & Regional Planning at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (USA), and the Global Research Institute at the University of Manchester (UK). He is the author of over 100 scholarly publications, including (with Prof. Duncan MacRae) a graduate textbook on public policy analysis, Expert Advice for Policy Choice: Analysis and Discourse. He has served as an advisor for three environmental economics networks in the Global South: 1) Economy and Environment Program for Southeast Asia (EEPSEA); 2) Latin American and Caribbean Environmental Economics Program (LACEEP); and 3) Center for Environmental Economics and Policy Analysis (CEEPA). Since 2014, Prof. Whittington and Dr. Duncan Thomas have offered the two-part Massive Open Online Course (MOOC), “Water Supply and Sanitation Policy in Developing Countries” on the COURSERA platform. Over 25,000 students have participated from 184 countries.

This episode's mottos: "Water -- you get far more value than you pay for" and "Service quality rises when public knowledge rises."

Links:

Dale's paper, Ancient Instincts

http://www.kysq.org/docs/Whittington_Ancient_Instincts.pdf

David's op/ed on Los Angeles's bad water pricing:

https://www.zocalopublicsquare.org/2014/03/14/if-clean-water-is-a-right-why-have-we-been-so-wrong/ideas/up-for-discussion/