Approaches to Private Participation in Water Services : A Toolkit
This Toolkit aims to help developing country governments, interested in using private firms to help expand access to safe water and sanitation services at reasonable cost. Specifically, it aims to help them, and their advisers design arrangements t...
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| Format: | Publication |
| Language: | English en_US |
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Washington, DC
2012
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2006/01/6555642/approaches-private-participation-water-services-toolkit http://hdl.handle.net/10986/6982 |
| Summary: | This Toolkit aims to help developing
country governments, interested in using private firms to
help expand access to safe water and sanitation services at
reasonable cost. Specifically, it aims to help them, and
their advisers design arrangements that maximize the
benefits for their countries, provinces, or municipalities.
It is intended to complement other work being undertaken by
the Bank, and others on options for improving public
provision of water services. Instead of identifying a single
best approach to addressing the issues it discusses, the
Toolkit presents options and discusses their main advantages
and disadvantages. In so doing, it aims to give advisers and
policy makers the information needed to make decisions,
while taking account of local circumstances and the policy
makers' objectives. Private participation in water and
sanitation (or "water services" for short) can
take many forms. This Toolkit focuses on arrangements that
involve a private firm in the delivery of services to
households and businesses, including management contracts,
leases, "affermages", concessions, and
divestitures. It does not consider arrangements under which
private companies provide bulk water or wastewater treatment
to a government-owned utility. Nor does it consider
arrangements under which private companies provide selected
services-such as billing and collection-to a utility that is
still publicly managed. |
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