URBAN WATER SERVICES:

2017 ◽  
pp. 18-32
Keyword(s):  
Urban Water ◽  
Water Services ◽  
Urban Water Services

scholarly journals Legal Aspects of Urban Water and Sanitation Regulatory Services: An Analysis of How the Spanish Experience Positively Would Contribute to the Brazilian New Regulation

Water ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (8) ◽  
pp. 1023
Author(s):  
Asensio Navarro Ortega ◽  
Rafael Burlani Neves
Keyword(s):  
Service Management ◽  
Legal Aspects ◽  
Natural Monopoly ◽  
Wastewater Management ◽  
Urban Water ◽  
Water Services ◽  
Public Intervention ◽  
Economic Point ◽  
General Terms ◽  
Urban Water Services

This paper focuses on the legal and institutional framework of urban water services in Spain, emphasizing water sanitation by using proposals that would positively contribute to wastewater management in Brazil. The recent Brazilian Federal Law No. 14,026/20 aims to encourage investment in water sanitation, promoting public-private collaboration formulas so that service management is viable even in economically less-favored regions. In Spain, sanitation policies are aimed at fulfilling the set of obligations and objectives imposed by European Union Directives within the environmental policies of the Union. From an economic point of view, supply and sanitation water services are classified at European legal framework as “services of general economic interest” (SGEI), not subject to harmonized regulation and open to a natural monopoly provision regime, which they admit various types of management formulas, public and private, based on the ownership and public intervention of the service, both at national and European level. We believe that the Spanish experience in this field, beyond its singularities, can serve as a useful reference for Brazilian’s urban wastewater new regulation for several reasons: (1) Because of the decentralized political scheme that both countries share and the need to articulate an adequate system of competencies in consequence; (2) Because of the international experience that Spanish companies have at the sector’s technological forefront, they are very competitive; (3) Due to the adequate functioning of the Spanish legal and organizational framework since, despite its shortcomings, as we later will comment, it has managed to develop successful financing formulas and management models that, in general terms, have allowed to ensure with reasonable efficiency, continuity, stability and sustainability in the provision of urban water services.

scholarly journals Understanding the governance of urban water services from an institutional logics perspective

2021 ◽  
Vol 68 ◽  
pp. 101159
Author(s):  
Manuel Franco-Torres ◽  
Ragnhild Kvålshaugen ◽  
Rita M. Ugarelli
Keyword(s):  
Institutional Logics ◽  
Urban Water ◽  
Water Services ◽  
Urban Water Services

scholarly journals Bill payment behaviour in urban water services: empirical data from Uganda

2004 ◽  
Vol 53 (5) ◽  
pp. 339-349 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sam Kayaga ◽  
Richard Franceys ◽  
Kevin Sansom
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Data ◽  
Urban Water ◽  
Water Services ◽  
Urban Water Services ◽  
Payment Behaviour

The ‘social choice’ of privatising urban water services: A case study of Madrid in Spain

2015 ◽  
Vol 37 (4) ◽  
pp. 616-629 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alberto Ruiz-Villaverde ◽  
Andrés J. Picazo-Tadeo ◽  
Francisco González-Gómez
Keyword(s):  
Social Choice ◽  
Urban Water ◽  
Water Services ◽  
The Social ◽  
Urban Water Services

scholarly journals Metabolism-modelling approaches to long-term sustainability assessment of urban water services

2015 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 11-22 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. Venkatesh ◽  
Helge Brattebø ◽  
Sveinung Sægrov ◽  
Kourosh Behzadian ◽  
Zoran Kapelan
Keyword(s):  
Sustainability Assessment ◽  
Urban Water ◽  
Water Services ◽  
Urban Water Services ◽  
Modelling Approaches

Privatising Water Utilities and User Perception of Tap Water Quality: Evidence from Spanish Urban Water Services

2015 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 315-329 ◽  
Author(s):  
Miguel A. García-Rubio ◽  
Cecilia Tortajada ◽  
Francisco González-Gómez
Keyword(s):  
Water Quality ◽  
Tap Water ◽  
Water Utilities ◽  
Urban Water ◽  
Water Services ◽  
User Perception ◽  
Urban Water Services ◽  
Tap Water Quality ◽  
Quality Evidence

scholarly journals What does resilience mean for urban water services?

2017 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Åse Johannessen ◽  
Christine Wamsler
Keyword(s):  
Urban Water ◽  
Water Services ◽  
Urban Water Services
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