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Journal articles on the topic "Water sector privatization"

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K'Akumu, O. A. "Privatization model for water enterprise in Kenya." Water Policy 8, no. 6 (2006): 539–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.2166/wp.2006.047.

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The world over, the role and eligibility of the state in the provision of water supply is increasingly coming into question. Policy makers and analysts are advocating the abdication of the state in favour of private participation. This is expected to bring with it a host of benefits to all the stakeholders concerned. Kenya is one of the developing countries that have endeavoured to privatize their water sectors. Kenya has done this by enactment and implementation of the Water Act of 2002. The paper carries out an analysis of the water institutions being created under the new legislation. This has been done against conventional policy and conceptual frameworks. Overall, the institutional set-up is found to be public sector-oriented rather than private sector-oriented. Recommendations are made for legislative review for mainstreaming private sector participation.
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Jayne, Nguthu. "EFFECT OF PRIVATIZATION ON FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE OF WATER UTILITIES IN KENYA: A CASE OF WATER COMPANIES UNDER COAST WATER SERVICE BOARD." International Journal of Finance and Accounting 2, no. 1 (2017): 36. http://dx.doi.org/10.47604/ijfa.246.

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Purpose: This study therefore sought to evaluate the effects of privatization on financial performance of water utilities in line with water sector reforms objectives aimed at improving performance in the sector in Kenya in order to fulfill the global and national goals. The target population of the study was all seven water utilities registered as public limited companies commonly referred to as water service providers (WSPs) that operate under Coast Water Service Board (CWSB) in coast region. Methodology:The study used a census approach hence, included the whole population. Secondary data was used in the study for analysis using the Statistical package for Social Sciences (SPSS) to generate descriptive statistics, trend analysis and inferential statistics.Results: Descriptive results indicate that private sector management is an efficient means of privatization which some water companies in Coast County adopt. Delegated management a method of privatization is most used by most Water Service companies as it improves efficiency in operations, productivity and service delivery. Leasing contracts are considered expensive means of privatization; however, it is equally a performance efficient means of privatization. Corporatization on the other hand promotes efficiency and service delivery. Regression results show a positive and significant relationship between private sector participation, delegated management, leasing contracts and corporatization. ANOVA statistics indicate that the overall model was significant. Pearsons’ bivariate correlations show that all the variables had strong and positive correlation, private sector participation (0.893), delegated management (0.151), leasing contracts (0.441)and corporatization (0.536)respectively.Unique contribution to theory, practice and policy: These results imply that privatization positively affects the overall performance of a company. Through privatization companies are able to positively affect their service delivery, production levels, profitability and increase investment through stock trading.
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Jones, Sharon A., and Catriona Mhairi Duncanson. "Implications of the World Bank's privatization policy for South Africa." Water Policy 6, no. 6 (2004): 473–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.2166/wp.2004.0031.

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Providing potable water is a central issue for all nations and is of particular concern in developing countries where universal coverage does not exist. This paper evaluates the implications of the World Bank's privatization policy for the water sector in developing countries using South Africa as an example. The authors conclude that regardless of private investment, cost-accounting reform is needed both to provide universal services and to practice environmental stewardship. Based on theory and empirical evidence, concessions appear to be the optimal form of water sector privatization. The structure of the water sector in South Africa favors the use of concessions if a privatization strategy is pursued. The South African case shows that the success of attempts to privatize a monopolistic water sector depends on developing adequate regulatory and administrative capacity. This conclusion aligns closely with the current World Bank privatization policy. However, the authors argue that the Bank policy does not explicitly address several issues that are necessary to maximize the benefits of privatization. In addition, the authors agree with other analysts who suggest that the World Bank would benefit from a new paradigm for infrastructure privatization that is more transparent and includes a coalition of stakeholders with community involvement.
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Kuks, Stefan M. "The privatisation debate on water services in the Netherlands: public performance of the water sector and the implications of market forces." Water Policy 8, no. 2 (2006): 147–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.2166/wp.2006.0010.

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Legally adopted in France and the UK, privatization of water services is still vigorously debated in the Netherlands. Advocates of privatization believe it is the best way to save on utility costs and to increase their transparency. Opponents believe that the Dutch water sector already provides high quality services for low prices, including an additional public performance that is expected to be excluded in a free market. The author argues that the performance of water service providers should not be assessed only in terms of efficiency, but in terms of the effects on the entire water system as well as the protection of small customers. It is quite possible that without privatization, a public agency could also improve its efficiency and become more competitive in relation to other service providers. Privatization seems to be more a matter of political ideology (based on a belief that the public sector operates inefficiently) than a matter of hard facts. The success of privatization depends at least on the performance of a complementary public regulatory regime. The question should not be whether the public or the private sector performs better hypothetically, but how the actual performance regarding public goods and services can be improved.
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Hailu, Degol, Rafael Guerreiro Osorio, and Raquel Tsukada. "Privatization and Renationalization: What Went Wrong in Bolivia’s Water Sector?" World Development 40, no. 12 (2012): 2564–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2012.05.032.

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Spronk, Susan. "Roots of Resistance to Urban Water Privatization in Bolivia: The “New Working Class,” the Crisis of Neoliberalism, and Public Services." International Labor and Working-Class History 71, no. 1 (2007): 8–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0147547907000312.

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AbstractThis paper analyzes the roots of resistance to the privatization of public services in the context of the changes to class formation in Bolivia. Based upon two case studies of urban water privatization, it seeks to explain why the social coalitions that have emerged to protest the privatization of public water services in Bolivia have been led by territorially-based organizations composed of rural-urban and multiclass alliances rather than public-sector unions. It argues that protest against the privatization of water utilities in Bolivia must be understood within the context of neoliberal economic restructuring and the emergence of what has been termed the “new working class,” which is now primarily urban and engaged in informal forms of work.
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Pempetzoglou, Maria, and Zoi Patergiannaki. "Debt-driven water privatization: The case of Greece." European Journal of Multidisciplinary Studies 5, no. 1 (2017): 102. http://dx.doi.org/10.26417/ejms.v5i1.p102-111.

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The privatization of water services is a basic conditionality in the structural adjustment programs imposed by international financial institutions, such as the IMF and the World Bank, on indebted countries. In the same sense, the financial assistance that has been offered to Greece from Troika, since the beginning of the financial crisis, in the late 2009, was accompanied by the commitment, to privatize, among others, the two largest public water companies. The consequences of water privatization policies include increases in prices, poor quality of services, little or no investment, rise of income inequality, high levels of corruption, loss of jobs and deterioration of working conditions. Despite the fact that privatization of water supply companies has been proven to be ineffective in many parts of the world and the tendency towards the remunicipalization of water services that has lately been detected, international financial organizations continue to set water privatization as conditionality. The unconstitutionality of the policy and the strong opposition of citizens and unions to water privatization seem to be inefficient to prevent the Greek government to proceed to the establishment of a public-private partnership in the water supply sector.
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Hirvi, Marja. "Water Privatization and Social Citizenship: The Case of Urban Water Sector in Ghana." Journal of Civil Society 8, no. 4 (2012): 351–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17448689.2012.744231.

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Lobina, Emanuele, and David Hall. "Public Sector Alternatives to Water Supply and Sewerage Privatization: Case Studies." International Journal of Water Resources Development 16, no. 1 (2000): 35–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/07900620048554.

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Albalate, Daniel, Germà Bel, Raymond Gradus, and Eoin Reeves. "Re-municipalization of local public services: incidence, causes and prospects." International Review of Administrative Sciences 87, no. 3 (2021): 419–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/00208523211006455.

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Since the turn of the century, a global trend of re-municipalization has emerged, with cities reversing earlier privatizations and returning infrastructure and public service delivery to the public sector. The reversal of privatization measures is not an entirely new phenomenon. In the US, for example, returning public services to in-house production has been a long-standing feature of ‘pragmatic public management’. However, many cases of re-municipalization that have occurred since the early 2000s represent a distinctive shift from earlier privatization policies. High-profile cases in cities including Paris and Hamburg have thrust re-municipalization into the limelight as they have followed public campaigns motivated by dissatisfaction with the results of privatization and a desire to restore public control of vital services, such as water and energy. Just as the reform of public services towards privatization spawned a vast body of scholarship, the current re-municipalization phenomenon is increasingly attracting the attention of scholars from a number of disciplinary perspectives. The articles contained in this symposium contribute to this emerging literature. They address some of the burning issues relating to re-municipalization, but they also point to issues yet to be resolved and shed light on a research agenda that is still taking shape.
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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Water sector privatization"

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Sjödin, Johanna. "Urbanization and poverty as determinants for private sector participation in the water sector." Thesis, Växjö University, School of Management and Economics, 2006. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:vxu:diva-1302.

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This study analyses whether urbanization and poverty have any importance for private sector participation (PSP) in the water sector, in developing countries. In the beginning of the 1990’s there was a surge in the interest of the private sector to participate in water and sanitation projects, after a long period of public dominance. There is a large need for investments since much of the population in developing countries does not have access to water and sanitation services and the demand is increasing. At the same time the water sector is prone to inefficiencies resulting from externalities and natural monopoly characteristics, and is therefore often highly regulated.

A negative binominal regression model is used for the analysis. The dependent variable is the number of water and sanitation projects with private sector participation in a country. The independent variables are population, GDP/capita, aid, debt, water resources, government effectiveness, degree of urbanization and degree of poverty. The main results are that urbanization is positively significant for PSP in the water sector, while poverty has no significant effect.

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Davert, Elena M. "Putting the 'Public' Back into the Public Sector: Rethinking Potable Water Provision and Water Management Policy in Mexico City." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2012. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/455.

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Reliable access to potable water is one of the most important building blocks for developing countries. Clean drinking water not only helps people break free of the cycle of poverty, but fulfilling basic health needs allows communities to address long-term development goals and improve their quality of life. Although the Millennium Development Goals aimed to halve the number of households lacking access to clean drinking water by 2015, many countries around the world still struggle to improve water coverage to their poorest citizens. Latin America is no exception, and despite being one of the most water-rich regions in the world, over 50 million people still lack access to reliable potable water. In a case study of Mexico City, this paper analyzes the trends of decentralization, privatization, and water management reform characteristic of Latin America, as well as their effects on universal water coverage. The analysis reveals that not only is privatization not a prerequisite characteristic of successful water resource management, but that local governments may be equally successful at expanding their water networks through the implementation of tariff reform, output-based aid, and increased public participation.
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Sigala, Catharina. "The Private is Globlal: A Study on Globalization, Development, and Equity on the Case of Bolivia’s Water Sector Privatization." Thesis, Malmö högskola, Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS), 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-21579.

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The last two decades witness that water is a politicized issue. The process of globalization has brought into existence a hierarchal structure in which the World Bank and the International Monterey Fund work in accordance to neoliberal theory. Development is, as a component in this process, placed high on the agendas of these multilateral institutions, and has become a global concern. The case of Bolivia’s water sector privatization has problematized the global consensus on neoliberal theory and its attempts to ensure development. The international system is a set of structures that shape the process of globalization, thus these have to be explored in order to understand the relation between neoliberalism, development, and equity. By placing Bolivia’s water sector privatization in the center of the research, concepts become researchable, while the neoliberal theory on development is tested. The policies of privatization did not succeed in targeting the poorest groups and equity was overseen. The study finds that the opposing views on whether privatization is a mean to achieve development are based in a clash on what development is. Dependency and power relations cannot be overseen. The clash is, in turn, translated into the relation between the global and the local, which is also shaped by contradiction in the context of globalization. Globalization is a process with a severe problem: there is no room for equity.
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Soto-Vázquez, Abdelali. "Explaining the determinants of contractual inefficiencies: the case of water provision in Saltillo, Mexico." Thesis, University of the Western Cape, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/11394/2048.

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Public-private partnerships to provide services are a relatively new policy initiative in Mexico, and have shown contrasting results. This research has endeavored to analyze the possible determinants behind the failure, or the success, of the choice of a specific mode of service provision. By using contracting literature based on transaction costs, and looking specifically at the case of AGSAL, a joint venture established between Saltillo, a northern Mexican city, and INTERAGBAR, a private investor, for the provision of water, this study showed that characteristics of the transaction at stake. More specifically, it showed that specificity of the investments that support a given transaction, the unanticipated changes in circumstances surrounding an exchange, either from physical assets or its ownership rights, and the frequency and duration with which parties engage in the transaction.
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Steurer, Erin. "A Private Commodity or Public Good? A Comparative Case Study of Water and Sanitation Privatization in Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1993-2006." [Tampa, Fla] : University of South Florida, 2008. http://purl.fcla.edu/usf/dc/et/SFE0002376.

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Soto-Vázquez, Abdelali. "Explaining the determinants of contractual inefficiencies: the case of water provision in Saltillo, Mexico." Thesis, 2006. http://etd.uwc.ac.za/index.php?module=etd&action=viewtitle&id=gen8Srv25Nme4_1034_1183464314.

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Public-private partnerships to provide services are a relatively new policy initiative in Mexico, and have shown contrasting results. This research has endeavored to analyze the possible determinants behind the failure, or the success, of the choice of a specific mode of service provision. By using contracting literature based on transaction costs, and looking specifically at the case of AGSAL, a joint venture established between Saltillo, a northern Mexican city, and INTERAGBAR, a private investor, for the provision of water, this study showed that characteristics of the transaction at stake. More specifically, it showed that specificity of the investments that support a given transaction, the unanticipated changes in circumstances surrounding an exchange, either from physical assets or its ownership rights, and the frequency and duration with which parties engage in the transaction.

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Steiner, Sylvia Marlene. "The role of institutions in state-private sector interaction: the case of the management contract for water and wastewater services in the Amman Governorate, Jordan." 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/11394/3117.

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This research investigates the performance of private sector participation (PSP) in the water sector from a governance perspective. It is concerned with the role that institutions play in the interaction between the state and the private sector, which occurs with respect to the regulation and implementation of such PSP arrangements. The research takes place within the context of a development debate and practice, which identifies water as a key poverty issue in a substantial part of the developing countries, which advocates private sector participation as a remedy to inadequate water management and which acknowledges good governance as a crucial requirement for development. Nevertheless, few studies have scrutinized the impact of governance and institutions on the outcome of PSP arrangements in the water sector. Most research on the performance of PSP arrangements has examined exogenous and endogenous determinants, such as the price mechanism and the property rights allocation, but these factors proved unsatisfactory as explaining variables in the context of natural resource management. To contribute to filling a gap in research this study aims at evaluating the impact of institutional frameworks on the outcome of private sector participation in water supply and sanitation through a case study of the Management Contract for Water and Wastewater Service in the Amman Governorate, Jordan. At the end of the 1990s the quality of water supply and sanitation in the Jordanian capital Amman was unsatisfactory, as supply was insufficient and entailed high costs. Therefore, in 1999, the government of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan contracted a private joint venture to improve water service provision in the Amman Governorate. The research takes into account the specific institutional framework for the mentioned arrangement in Amman, which is comprised of the national judicial and political institutions, the specific regulatory institutions as well as relevant international institutions. These institutions are not limited to laws and regulations only, but also include informal institutions such as traditions. The specific objective of this study is to show how the institutional framework of a transaction affects regulatory processes by abating and amplifying the potential for opportunistic behavior of the contracting parties, and thereby affecting the performance of a privately operated water utility. The examination of the institutional framework of the Amman Management Contract revealed that mainly judicial and international institutions and specific contract rules were constraining the discretion of the contracting parties. Political checks and balances were insufficiently established and the regulatory institutions of the water sector were set up in an improper way. The field study discovered that the resulting discretionary power of certain actor was used opportunistically, which had a detrimental effect on the outcome of the PSP arrangement. Nevertheless the overall performance of the arrangement was good from which the general insight was drawn that regulatory credibility may be developed even in unpropitious environments. However, to be able to judge upon the effect of governance and institutions on a planned or existing PSP arrangement each time a complex assessment of the respective institutional environment is necessary. This is because institutions may not be seen as independent building blocks but rather form a network which is likely to be unique for each country and situation. The mini-thesis is organized as follows. In Chapter 1 an outline of the study and its problem background is provided. Chapter 2 provides a detailed literature review and sets out the theoretical framework and research hypotheses of the study. Chapter 3 outlines the research design and methodology that was used for the study. Chapter 4 provides background detail on the Jordanian political, economic and social situation, on the issues pertaining to the water sector, andon the Amman water contract. Chapter 5 provides a description and analysis of the main research findings. Chapter 6 provides a summary as well as final conclusions and considerations.
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Books on the topic "Water sector privatization"

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Franceys, Richard. Private sector participation in the water and sanitation sector: Private waters?- a bias towards the poor. Department for International Development, 1997.

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Jensen, Olivia. The handshake: Why do governments and firms sign private sector participation deals ? evidence from the water and sanitation sector in developing countries. World Bank, 2006.

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1945-, Ringskog Klas, ed. Private sector participation in water supply and sanitation in Latin America. World Bank, 1995.

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Private sector participation in the water supply and wastewater sector: Lessons from six developing countries. World Bank, 1996.

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Rivera, Daniel. Private sector participation in the water supply and wastewater sector: Lessons from six developing countries. World Bank, 1996.

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Dwivedi, Gaurav. Water, private limited: Issues in privatisation, corporatisation, and commercialisation of water sector in India. 2nd ed. Manthan Adhyayan Kendra, 2007.

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Hukka, J. Water privatisation revisited: Panacea or pancake? IRC International Water and Sanitation Centre, 2003.

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Bank, Asian Development, and Manila Water Company, eds. Tap secrets: The Manila Water story : the case study of Manila Water Company, an exercise in successful utility reform in urban water sector. Asian Development Bank and Manila Water Company, 2014.

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Calvo, María Angélica Alegría. Historia del sector sanitario chileno: De la gestión estatal hasta el proceso de privatización. Instituto de Investigación de la Naciones Unidas para el Desarrollo Social, 2006.

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Kerf, Michel. Do state holding companies facilitate private participation in the water sector?: Evidence from Côte d'Ivoire, the Gambia, Guinea, and Senegal. World Bank, 2000.

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Book chapters on the topic "Water sector privatization"

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Bayliss, Kate. "Water and Electricity in Sub-Saharan Africa." In Privatization and Alternative Public Sector Reform in Sub-Saharan Africa. Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9780230286412_5.

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Dagdeviren, Hulya. "Zambia: The Commercialization of Urban Water and Sanitation." In Privatization and Alternative Public Sector Reform in Sub-Saharan Africa. Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9780230286412_8.

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Lieberherr, Eva. "Exploring the Democratic Legitimacy of Privatization in the Water Sector: Two Cases in Switzerland." In A Critical Approach to International Water Management Trends. Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-60086-8_6.

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Owen, David. "Liberalization, privatization and the water sector." In Trade, Investment and the Environment. Routledge, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315071442-22.

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Barbier, Edward B. "Supporting Innovations." In The Water Paradox. Yale University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.12987/yale/9780300224436.003.0008.

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This chapter assesses the role of innovation in averting the global water crisis. Recent technical advances—such as desalinization of saltwater, geographical information systems (GIS), and remote sensing—have the potential for managing and increasing freshwater supplies. There is also a new generation of urban water supply systems that can improve efficiency and sustainable use. Water use in agriculture, too, can benefit from a range of innovations in irrigation technologies and delivery systems. The chapter then considers the key policies and other initiatives that are necessary for prompting more economy-wide innovation in water technologies: public policies and investments that facilitate private research and development (R&D) activities of firms; overcoming the water efficiency paradox; privatization of some activities currently undertaken by public supply utilities; and initiatives by the private sector and corporations to account for water costs and risks.
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Abbott, Malcolm, and Bruce Cohen. "The hardest reform of all." In Utilities Reform in Twenty-First Century Australia. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198865063.003.0008.

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This chapter provides an examination of the reasons for the continued government ownership of service provision in the water and wastewater services industry. In doing so it assesses the monopoly and the environment- and rural-related reasons for the slower reform of this sector compared to the others in the utilities sector. This chapter also provides a discussion of the types of reforms that have taken place in this industry in the absence of privatization. These reforms include such tings as the merger of various water authorities, the corporatization of government business enterprises, the introduction of more commercially orientated water prices, and increased use of non-surface sources of water.
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"The Privatization Initiatives in the Turkish Water Sector: Reflections on the Transboundary Water Politics in the Euphrates-Tigris River Basin." In River Basin Management in the Twenty-First Century. CRC Press, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1201/b17168-17.

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