Aufbereitung und Verteilung von Wasser verlangen Effizienz. Private Unternehmen können das mindestens so gut wie der Staat - vorausgesetzt, es existiert ein Wettbewerb. Beispiele aus Frankreich und Grossbritanien.

In most developed countries, the provision of water is organized at a local level. The costs and tariffs vary significantly, even between adjacent water utilities. Such heterogeneity is an obvious indication of the sectors overall inefficiency and stresses a need for institutional adjustments....

This paper presents an attempt to create competition in the water market by means of direct competition. We argue that the usual liberalisation device, competition for the market by franchise bidding, is problematic due to the particular features of the water industry. Our approach proposes the...