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 …

Purpose – This paper aims to test the 100‐days rapid change model for African public water utilities. Design …/methodology/approach – A case study is conducted of three 100‐days rapid change programs in public water utilities in Uganda, Tanzania and … Zambia. Findings – The study finds that the 100‐days rapid change model is partly applicable to the African public water …

build or upgrade, operate and manage public water infrastructure services hitherto provided and run by the public sector …. Access to private finance speeds up the provision of public water services in developing countries, where many governments … face budgetary constraints. However, the water sector attracts the least investment flows in developing countries, well …

Purpose – Using the recent attempts by the Ghanaian Government to privatize its urban water services, this paper seeks …

pricing policy development and implementation in the water industry in Australia. Design/methodology/approach – A review of … literature relevant to the pricing of water shows equity issues have four dimensions which tend to be, at best, only implicitly … urban water entities chose not to adopt the user-pays pricing mechanism for water. This suggests that the balance between …

Purpose Water conservationists have been promoting a hierarchy of measures to preserve water resources in the face of … decreasing freshwater availability in the world. However, applicability of water hierarchy to the construction industry is yet to … be investigated. To fill this knowledge gap, the purpose of this paper is to investigate water usage, water use …

regional development. However, this prosperity has quite often a significant environmental cost in terms of water resources … to seek for a solution – in terms of area and water allocation under different crops. Findings – Results shows that …

fluency theories, the paper presents three research propositions that are tested in three studies. Bottled water serves as an … findings are obtained for a single category (bottled water) using experiments designed to highlight and focus consumer …

programme for customer service competency based vocational qualification in a water utilities company based in the north of …