This paper compares water and sanitation services in municipalities that entered into a concession arrangement with a … explore five variables of interest: (i) water coverage; (ii) sewage collection; (iii) sewage treatment; (iv) average tariff …; and (v) water losses. Using an empirical strategy and making improvements over previous literature, after controlling for …

The Asia Water Development Outlook – a flagship publication by the Asian Development Bank - monitors progress in water … that are needed to enhance – water security in the region. Working in close collaboration with the Asian Development Bank … and partners, the OECD endeavoured to characterise funding needs and financing flows for water security in the region. The …

We study adoption by more than 150,000 households of an optional transitional water tariff implemented in the South …

We study adoption by more than 150,000 households of an optional transitional water tariff implemented in the South …

The theoretical and empirical literature on water supply and sewerage liberalization is reviewed in this paper in order … water utilities is finally provided …

Where they exist, tariffs for water supply and sanitation services face a tension between different policy objectives … poor social groups. Governments (local and national) resort to a range of measures to reconcile these objectives and … address social consequences of tariffs: tariff levels and structures, nudging, budgetary transfers, targeted social measures …

Public provision of water and wastewater services in urban India has been a noteworthy failure. Open defecation, mixing … of untreated wastewater with stormwater and drinking water supplies, and unreliable water services have added up to a … widespread use of Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs) in the Indian water and wastewater sector. We analyze 163 water and …

Indonesia is extensively promoting Public-Private Partnership (PPP) for infrastructure projects, including in the water … sector. However, it is found that it takes two to eight years for water supply system (WSS) PPPs to be procured, likely … Indonesian PPPs, specifically for water infrastructure project. A case study method was chosen for this paper as it helps explore …