How to finance the infrastructure and service of bulk water supply, and how to use pricing to achieve efficient … allocation and use of water as a resource are the central issues that emerge from discussions about bulk water pricing …. Efficiency will lead to allocating water resources better, reducing water losses caused by poor maintenance of the supply systems …

Groudwater is of major importance in providing mains water supply, and is intensively exploited for private, domestic …

The water sector has undergone remarkable changes in recent years. While past achievements were associated mainly with … investment in new physical structures, recent developments in the water sector are associated to a greater extent with improved … change and institution-performance interactions in the water sector. …

For the use of water markets to introduce improve water resources management, the existence of adequate institutional … effective water resources management through use of the market mechanism. …

Many developing countries sharing water resources of international river basins are facing serious problems in meeting …