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This paper addresses the economic efficiency of water production and distribution in a vertical supply chain consisting of a water-provider and a consumer (municipality). The inherent conflicts over stocks and supply costs that emerge among the parties in the water supply chain are modeled as a...

Water management have been plagued by the problem of determining its price. The purpose of this paper is to provide a financial based approach for the implied price of water shortfall. To do so, we consider the price of municipalities' contracts for external water supplies (such as supply from...

The definition and the management of quality has evolved and assumed a variety of approaches, responding to an increased variety of needs. In industry, quality and its control has responded to the need of maintaining an industrial process operating as "expected", reducing the process sensitivity...