The Regulation of Water and Waste Services
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The Regulation of Water and Waste Services

  1. 237 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
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The Regulation of Water and Waste Services

About this book

The public water supply, urban wastewater and urban waste management services are essential to the well-being of citizens, public health and economic activities. These are generally provided under natural or legal monopoly, so there is no incentive for utilities to search for greater efficiency and effectiveness and as such there is an increasing prevalence of such risks for users. For these reasons, society can significantly benefit from the existence of regulatory intervention capable of introducing greater balance in the relationship between utilities and their users. 

The Regulation of Water and Waste Services: An Integrated Approach (Rita-Ersar) presents a practical integrated regulatory approach to these water and waste services. This approach is called the ARIT-ERSAR model and it is capable of contributing to the promotion of access by citizens to these services that is tending towards the universal. These services are provided with suitable quality by utilities at socially acceptable prices and with an acceptable level of risk.   

This approach consists of a regulation model with two major areas of intervention: structural regulation of the sector and regulation of the performance of the utilities. The components of structural regulation are contributions to organisation, legislation, information and sectoral capacity building. The performance regulation of utilities consists of legal and contractual regulation, economic regulation, quality of service regulation, drinking water quality regulation and user interface regulation.  

Author: Jaime Melo Baptista, Chairperson of the Water and Waste Services Regulatory Authority, ERSAR, Portugal

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. List of figures
  4. Foreword from an international perspective
  5. Foreword from a national perspective
  6. Author’s note
  7. Acknowledgements
  8. About the author
  9. Chapter 1: Introduction
  10. Chapter 2: Water and waste services
  11. Chapter 3: Public policies for water and waste services
  12. Chapter 4: Setting up a regulatory authority
  13. Chapter 5: Integrated regulatory approach
  14. Chapter 6: Regulatory contribution to the organisation of the sectors
  15. Chapter 7: Regulatory contribution to the legislation of the sectors
  16. Chapter 8: Regulatory contribution to the information of the sectors
  17. Chapter 9: Regulatory contribution to the capacity building of the sectors
  18. Chapter 10: Legal and contractual regulation
  19. Chapter 11: Economic regulation
  20. Chapter 12: Quality of service regulation
  21. Chapter 13: Drinking water quality regulation
  22. Chapter 14: User interface regulation
  23. Chapter 15: Articulation with third party entities
  24. Chapter 16: Conclusions
  25. Annex A: The evolution of water and waste services in Portugal in the last two decades
  26. Annex B: The evolution of water and waste services regulation in Portugal
  27. Annex C: The bylaw of the Water and Waste Services Regulation Authority (ERSAR)
  28. Index