Veolia Water and Suez Environnement manage drinking water supply not only in France but also across the globe. They have developed a series of social performance indicators that have been used in their sustainable development reports since 2002. This paper examines to what extent the publication...

В статье представлена характеристика водопользования регионов Северо-Западного федерального округа по водоёмкости произведённого продукта и удельным...

While there seems to be a strong consensus on the superior performance of private firms over government-owned ones in competitive industries (Shleifer, 1998, Megginson and Netter, 2001), the evidence in network utilities is less clear cut (Newbery, 1999). However, most of the papers (and the...

Report to the High Level Steering Group on Water. The High Level Steering Group on Water endorsed the project 'Best Practice in Identifying, Costing and Charging for Externalities' in October 1999. The project's objective was to develop a pragmatic set of guidelines to assist jurisdictions in...

Since franchise bidding in the piped water industry is problematic due to extensive investment requirements, product-market competition or common carriage is a valuable alternative for the introduction of competition. This paper analyses product-market competition by considering a simple model...

Environmental factors add complexity to the comparison between specific activities or entire entities. Decision making units with an inferior performance are tempted to invoke that their organization is different from the others in the data set. By reinterpreting and extending the metafrontier...

The paper deals with the effects of local governments’ interference with business affairs of publicly owned utilities. A partial model is presented to illustrate the consequences of “democratic control” for the public managers’ effort and the efficiency of local public production. To...

Socio-economic change, severe droughts, and environmental concerns focus attention on sustainability of water supplies and the ability of water utilities to meet levels of service. Traditionally, water management has been supply-side dominated and long-term demand forecasting has received...

Purpose – Accounting and water industry experts are developing general-purpose water accounting (GPWA) to report information about water and rights to water. The system has the potential to affect water policies, pricing and management, and investment and other decisions that are affected by...