This paper provides a 'back-of-the-envelope' assessment of the efficiency effects of the reforms of the water sector in …

This paper compares water and sanitation services in municipalities that entered into a concession arrangement with a … explore five variables of interest: (i) water coverage; (ii) sewage collection; (iii) sewage treatment; (iv) average tariff …; and (v) water losses. Using an empirical strategy and making improvements over previous literature, after controlling for …

Too many drinking water and wastewater systems across Canada threaten public health and the environment. In this report …, the author writes that many of the municipally owned and operated systems that treat and distribute drinking water perform … 1,000 systems across Canada violate provincial requirements or are subject to boil-water advisories. Brubaker recommends …

information sources include two Bank of Italy surveys carried out in 2007 on local public water authorities and local water …The paper investigates the organization of the Italian water sector in the light of the reforms of public utilities …. The aim is to examine the degree of implementation of the water sector reform (the so-called Galli Law of 1994) and assess …

assessment model for water and sewage utility companies in order to analyze not only operational efficiency but also the …

Since the 1980s, the European Union favours regulatory reforms in network industries and the water sector appears to be … Water Systems in European (UWSE)." This process began in the second half of 1990 and the Water framework directive (2000 …

. However, research must account for both cost and quality of service. Using data from 38 Peruvian water utilities (1996 to 2001 …

Where they exist, tariffs for water supply and sanitation services face a tension between different policy objectives …, benefits and costs of metering, elasticity of domestic water use to prices, fiscal transfers to water services. The paper is …