This article explores the creation of consumer cooperatives as a means of privatizing water utilities. The first … the externalities and social costs associated with a water utility. The heart of the paper is the second section which … applies the theory of efficiently assigned ownership to the case of water utilities. The third section briefly reviews the …

Throughout history, societies have been predicated on ready access to sources of drinking water, whether in the … cisterns of Masada high above the Dead Sea, the graceful aqueducts carrying water into Rome, or the sacred Aboriginal water … holes in Australia's outback. But access is not enough. The water has to be safe to drink. And this presupposes a …

Aufbereitung und Verteilung von Wasser verlangen Effizienz. Private Unternehmen können das mindestens so gut wie der …