The function of communal water supply utilities is to provide consumers with high quality drinking water in sufficient … quantities. On the other hand communal wastewater disposal utilities have to dispose the wastewater. In addition to this water … prices and wastewater charges shall also give financial incentives to water avoidance. The existing cost problem results of …

This paper aims to locate developments in water delivery within broader financialization trends by considering three … financialization is incompatible with social objectives in water delivery. … aspects of water management. First, despite clear failings of privatization over the past twenty years, state support for the …

, environmentally sustainable growth, and regional integration. Water is common to each of these and is in fact central to their …’s comparative advantages and core competencies. One core area is infrastructure, where water resources management and the delivery … of efficient and sustainable irrigation, water supply, sanitation, and wastewater management services are key elements …

Agriculture is the main water-using sector in Southern European Countries, such as Spain and Italy. Innovative … institutional solutions for reducing water use or increasing its efficiency are pursued by recent legislation concerning water, in … particular by the Water Framework Directive (WFD). Even if not explicitly considered by the directive, water markets may be seen …

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 GPWA report users' understanding of water risks faced by an entity. It may …

Report to the High Level Steering Group on Water. The High Level Steering Group on Water endorsed the project 'Best … Australia's water resources. Drawing on both national and international best practice, this document sets out those guidelines … direction of the Australian water industry, the guidelines have been developed with practicality, flexibility, and durability in …

Wirtschaftszweig Wasserwirtschaft unter den Randbedingungen des Klimawandels, der demografischen Entwicklung und der Globalisierung … Strategien für den Schutz der Ressource Wasser und zur Förderung der Wasserwirtschaft entwickelt. …

divisions help explain the wide variation in access to tap water across rural India. Studies linking social fragmentation to … for access to tap water in rural India. Communities that are heterogeneous in terms of caste (within the majority Hindu … religion) have lower access to tap water than correspondingly homogeneous communities. Communities that are fragmented across …

Were water considered an industry, it would be one of the largest in the United States, surely the most capital … grounded assessment of national water issues, it would also be one of the most fragmented and least coherent areas of public … policy. Rogers brings together all aspects of water (and water use) to look at policy formation from technical, economic, and …