In 1989, the United Kingdom embarked on one of the first modern privatizations in the water sector, selling assets …

In the 1990s, China's water supply infrastructure was in a very poor state. Municipal wastewater treatment was almost … nonexistent. Public utilities were inefficient. Prices for water were unsustainably low. Since then, large investments have been … made in water supply and wastewater infrastructure, and tariffs for water and wastewater have increased. China's national …

Committee on Urban Development in order to estimate the investment, operations, and maintenance requirements for urban water … service delivery. Infrastructure deficits in urban areas are large and growing. Universal water access for urban population in … India has yet to be realized. The report uses the cost models to discuss India's municipal financing needs, urban water …

The objective of this paper is to explore the impact of Uruguay's privatization and subsequent nationalization of water … services on network access and water quality. The results suggest that although the early privatization of water services had … bottom of the income distribution as well as an improvement in water quality …