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 …

with low initial networked water connections and it did deliver to the regions where they enjoyed political support. But …, partially justified. However, water seems to be a much more effective and reliable voters’ grabber than sanitation and this may …

The theoretical and empirical literature on water supply and sewerage liberalization is reviewed in this paper in order …, competition for the market and yardstick competition. A review of studies comparing privately and publicly managed water utilities …

several towns for the provision of drinking water and wastewater services, as well as some particular features and challenges …

This paper is focused on a case study on Milan’s water and sanitation service (MIWSS) in the 2003-2013 time frame …’s municipality. MM not only operates the water service but also civil engineering services mainly in the transport sector. A … governance issues. In the water sector public service mission includes many goals which should be appreciated adopting a long run …

From data collected by questionnaire survey of three communes in the Kandal province of Cambodia, where public water … supply remains inaccessible, this study estimates the demand function for drinking water and finds that the price elasticity … is between -0.26 and -0.29. Based on this, and given the price set by the Phnom Penh Water Supply Authority, expansion of …