Water Pricing and Public-Private Partnership

Asit Biswas, Cecilia Tortajada

• Publisher: Taylor & Francis
• Year: 2014
• eBook ISBN: 9781134196456
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Physical Sciences
• Subtopic: Geography
• Index: Geography

There is no question that water pricing and public-private partnership can improve water management practices in the future. However, this concept is neither the cure-all many proponents argue, nor the disaster its opponents forecast. Providing a comprehensive and objective assessment of what does and does not work, where, why and under what circumstances, this informative collection assesses the social, economic, equity and institutional implications.

This cohesive set of carefully selected essays, the result of The Third World Centre for Water Management and the Inter-American Development Bank's decision to objectively and critically assess the experiences in these areas, transcends the current dogmatic debate on these complex issues. Providing an in-depth analysis and assessment of the main issues and constraints of water pricing, private sector participation and their affect on water supply, the collection draws on illustrative case studies from Argentina, Brazil, the USA and Western European countries amongst others.

This is a special issue of the Journal of Water Resource Development.

INDEX

AA see Aguas Argentinas

accountability 18, 19, 22–3, 26, 67, 79; Brazil 133, 139; monopolies 94; public-private partnerships 131; state-society synergy 137, 143

ad hoc models 98

administration, operation and maintenance (A, O & M) 19, 22, 26, 87, 168; see also maintenance

AGBA 57

Agencia Nacional de Aguas (Brazil) 6

Agenda 21 1, 7

agriculture 19, 21–2, 43; Brazil 104, 123–5, 134, 135, 138, 139; Mexico 217–18; Spain 33, 36; United States 41–2, 44; see also irrigation

Aguas Argentinas (AA) 60, 61–2, 71, 73–4, 148–9, 154–8, 160–1

Aguas de Barcelona 57, 58, 59, 70

Aguas del Tunari 57, 58, 64, 72

American Water Works Association (AWWA) 45, 46

American Water Works Company, Inc. 88

Anglian Water 55, 56, 70

animals/livestock 9, 119, 129, 130

‘appropriations doctrine’ 43, 46

de Araujo, J. C. 104

Archibald, S. 47, 48

Argentina 5, 58, 77, 147–62; corporate compensation claim 63; currency risk 62, 72; economic crisis 160–1; investments 61, 62; regulation 65; renegotiation 60, 65, 71, 72, 73–4, 156–7, 160; single-bid concessions 57; tariffs 70, 71, 72, 154–60, 161

assets 46, 87, 91, 93, 153, 161n8, 185

associative networks 136

average referential price 13

AVSA 57–8

AWWA see American Water Works Association

Azevedo, Luiz Gabriel T. de 17–27

Azurix 55–6

Bahia 105, 107

Bakker, K. 65

Baltar, Alexandre M. 17–27

Belize 60

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Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• CONTENTS
• Introduction
• Water Pricing: An Outsider’s Perspective
• Water Pricing Reforms: Issues and Challenges of Implementation
• Water Pricing in Spain
• The Functions, Impacts and Effectiveness of Water Pricing: Evidence from the United States and Canada
• Problems with Private Water Concessions: A Review of Experiences and Analysis of Dynamics
• Key Issues and Experience in US Water Services Privatization
• Price Setting for Water Use Charges in Brazil
• Water Charges: Paying for the Commons in Brazil
• Water Reform across the State/Society Divide: The Case of Ceará, Brazil
• Institutional Framework for Water Tariffs in the Buenos Aires Concession, Argentina
• Private-sector Participation in the Management of Potable Water in Mexico City, 1992–2002
• Participation of the Private Sector in Water and Sanitation Services: Assessment of Guanajuato, Mexico
• Concepts of the Chilean Sanitation Legislation: Efficient Charges and Targeted Subsidies
• Index