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  The regulation of private sector participation in urban water supply and sanitation: realising social and environmental objectives in developing countries

  Environmental Economics Programme, IIED, 1999

  This paper provides an overview of the issues involved in the significant increase in private sector participation (PSP) in the urban water supply and sanitation (WSS) sector in recent years, and examines some of the mechanisms available to the authorities responsible for the regulation of the sector.The report argues that PSP in urban WSS is likely to continue to increase in importance in deve
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  Small Scale Water Providers in Paraguay

  UNDP - World Bank Water and Sanitation Program, 1999

  While many countries in Latin America are experimenting with the new concept of private provision of water supply service, Paraguay has for some time been the ground for another type of experiment: the free entry mode of service provision.
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  The Potential and the Limits of Private Water Providers: Independent Sellers in Francophone Africa

  UNDP - World Bank Water and Sanitation Program, 1999

  Suggests that the small scale operator may enjoy an advantage when it comes to providing services in smaller settlements where the national operator with a single service delivery system rarely breaks even.
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  Do Cross-Subsidies Help the Poor to Benefit from Water and Wastewater Services?: Lessons from Guayaquil, Ecuador

  UNDP - World Bank Water and Sanitation Program, 1999

  Tariff policy in many countries is often driven by the understandable desire to assure that the poor have access to reliable water and sewerage services which leads, in turn to a system of cross-subsidies. The water utility charges low income groups and residences at below-average rates, but charges industrial and commercial users at above average rates to make up the difference.
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  Formal and Informal Markets for Water: Institutions, Performance, and Constraints

  World Bank Research Observer, 1999

  Water markets—either formal or informal—can be an efficient method for reallocating scarce water supplies. At the same time certain constraints can raise the transaction costs of trading water. This paper reviews the conditions necessary to establish successful water markets, identifies potential problems, and offers mitigating strategies.
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  Improving the operation of urban water supply systems in India: a discussion of unaccounted for water

  US Agency for International Development, 2000

  Project report from the Indo-US FIRE(D) project which aims to institutionalise the delivery of commercially viable urban infrastructure and services at the state, regional and national levels.

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